Lab Results Settings
The
Lab Results Settings
screen lets a user create personal snapshots and phrases and set how many days worth of lab data to download to their handheld. Snapshots are used to customize sets of lab components that are viewed on the handheld. Phrases are shortcuts for adding commonly used phrases to lab annotations on the handheld. The department administrator may have created some stock snapshots and stock phrases that users can access automatically. If these snapshots and phrases aren't useful, the user can hide them so that they don't appear on the handheld device. When you select
Lab Results
from the
Edit Settings
menu, the
Lab Results Settings
screen appears.
The
Lab Results Settings
screen allows you to view and configure the following parameters:
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Snapshots
: This setting displays those snapshots that will be available to the selected user when using the
Snapshots
button on their handheld device. A snapshot is a customized grouping of lab components from arbitrary panels in your lab system. For example, you may prefer to see Cholesterol, Sodium, and Triglyceride results grouped together. These could be added as components of a snapshot, so that the information could be viewed collectively as a single result. If there are stock snapshots that are not useful, you can hide them so that they aren't available on your handheld device. Only those stock snapshots that are not hidden will be available.
Click the
Edit
link to modify the hide/unhide settings for stock snapshots or to add new personal snapshots.
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To set the hide/unhide properties for a stock snapshot, select the snapshot by clicking on it in the
View Snapshots
form and then click the
Hide
or
UnHide
button in the
Quick Details
box. Note that the button toggles between
Hide
and
Unhide
depending upon whether or not the
Hidden
column has been checked or unchecked, respectively, for the snapshot.
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To create a personal snapshot that is available only to the selected user, click the
New Snapshot
button on the toolbar. Enter a
Snapshot Title
in the
Quick Details
box and then check those lab components you wish to include in the snapshot. Click the
Search
button and enter search text to more easily locate components. Once you have selected all of the components for the snapshot, click the
Save
button to create the snapshot. Once the personal snapshot is created, you can also use the
Edit
button to add or remove components from the snapshot and the
Delete
button to remove the snapshot.
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Phrases
: This setting displays those phrases that will be available to the selected user as a shortcut when annotating lab results on their handheld device. If there are stock phrases that are not useful, you can hide them so that they aren't available on your handheld device. Click the
Edit
link to create a personal phrase and to modify the hide/unhide status of stock phrases, if any are defined.
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To create a personal phrase that is available only to the selected user, click the
New Phrase
button on the toolbar. Enter text, up to 128 characters, to complete the phrase and then click the
Save
button to create it. Once the personal phrase is created, you can also use the
Edit
button to change its text and the
Delete
button to remove it.
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To sort all phrases so that they will appear in a specific order for the selected user, click the
Sort Phrases
button on the toolbar. Use the buttons to move the phrases up, down, to the top, into alphabetical order, and click
Save
to store the changes.
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To modify the hide/unhide status for a stock phrase, select that phrase from the
View Phrase
form and then click the
Hide
or
Unhide
button. Hidden stock phrases will not be available to the selected user when annotating lab results.
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# of Days Lab Data to Download
: This setting determines how many days, between 0 and 180, of lab data per patient to download to the selected user's handheld device during a sync. Keep in mind that the amount of data downloading affects the length of time required for a sync.