SPECIMEN / REQUEST REGISTRATION

• Automatic generation of request details and results entry pages
• Fast registration for urgent specimens and quick on-line device use
• New Doctors, patients, billpayers added directly from Registration screen
• Access by accession / request code, patient or UR number
• User defined accession number
• Scrolling search windows
• Unlimited report copies to doctors, locations, wards
• Prompts for bad debtors
• Prompts for special patient messages
• Special species codes for veterinary work
• Unlimited clinical notes
• Up to 99 procedures per request
• Unlimited procedure database with scrolling pick-list screens
• Comments requiring response may be enabled
• Alias redirection
• Result enquiry during registration by single function keystroke
• Instant invoicing available at request entry
• Accounts automatically generated at registration (bulk billing, institutional and private)
• Urgent phone / fax management
• All disciplines requests entered against one accession / request number
  

PATIENT MASTER INDEX

• All demographic information stored
• Patients can be added, edited or deleted on the fly
• Windowed pick-lists allow easy access to patients by: UR Code, Unique Patient Code, Whole or part name, birthdate/name, birthdate, birth year range, alias, address
• Pregnancy Status
• Automatic aliasing of patients
• Extra details available for easier identification
• Patient Groups available
• Bad Debt patients flagged
• Medicare / Repatriation numbers
• TAC / Workcover details
• Security warning to limit access to results
• Patient merging facilities
• Blood Group and antibody data displayed
• Medical imaging film bag details
• Long term medical details requiring acknowledgement
• Special comments requiring operator response
• HIV status
• 25 line notepad available

SPECIMEN TRACKING

• Onscreen result status (immediate)
• ID by alphanumeric code at reception
• Specimen type may be subsumed in test procedure
• Location tracking
• Groups of specimens may be tracked
• 20 separate specimen records per request
• Specimen statistics are available
• Block and slide management programs
• Specimen code gives access to all request data
• Barcodes may be included

WORKLISTS

• On screen result status (immediate)
• Late lists (incomplete tests)
• All validated or partially validated tests
• Summaries of work in progress
• Summaries of daily work loadings
• Ordered by date
• Filtered by department, site, test procedure, data entry status, validation status
• Despatch list for specimens to be sent to other sites

GENERAL DATA ENTRY

• Library of report templates provided
• Templates (layouts) tailored for each site
• Cursor movement in report entry is user defined
• Screen display reflects printed output
• Patient demographics displayed on top of screen
• Each data field carries Medicre charging codes where required
• A "must enter" definition forces data entry to key fields
• Pre-set "panic ranges" require operator response
• Specific security access levels required for special patients
• Barcode readers enabled
• Field sensitive glossaries and glossary groups
• Data entry filters
• Special comments displayed before data entry
• Prompt to telephone or fax results
• Formula calculations for every field
• Unlimited report and page length selection
• Part reports may be truncated for printing but still available on screen (not in enquiry)
• Dual entry can be enabled to comply with NATA regulations
• Macro / library abbreviations can be edited by user
• Macros may be appended to each other on any line
• Function key data entry
• All cursor keys work
• Current data entry screen highlighted
• History available by keystroke
• Special Rules can be applied

WORKSHEETS

• User defined and may be pre-printed
• Automatically generated from download from instruments and devices
• Business graphics
• Clinical notes included
• List of other procedures included
• QC items may be included
• Multi-procedural worksheets available
• More than 20 different worksheet styles
• Results entered by worksheet code
• Up to 44 results per selection can be defined
• Data entry in same format as worksheet
• Existing data flagged for range exception
• Special comments printed

EXTRA TESTS

• May be added during data entry
• May be added to all procedures
• Extra procedures may be added to result page
• Extra worklists generated
• Updates costs and media usage
• Does not update account

RESULTS ENTRY & REPORTING

• User defined reports
• Automatic generation at registration
• Accessible by patient, procedure, code, date, doctor, slide order
• Confirmation flag for double data entry available
• Macro library / abbreviations may be edited by user (up to 15 lines)
• Macros may be appended to each other on any line
• Access by department
• Automatic worksheet entry
• Special doctor notes requqiring operator response
• User defined reference range checking
• Out of range highlighting
• Abnormal result count
• High security required (user defined) to edit validated results
• Field sensitive glossaries and data entry filters
• Lines per page toggle for special reports
• Audit trail records operator, time and date
• Pre-defined data entry order
• Histories of all patients immediately available by Function Key during data entry
• User defined cumulative reports by Function Key
• Graphical display
• Transparent access to archive data by Function Key
• Special telephone / fax / urgent messages
• Ward Reporting
• On screen reports status check at every menu
• Reported status displayed on screen
• Interim reports
• Scattergrams and histoplots by Function Key
• Special client warnings
• Panic results (user defined) halt entry
• Batch, cumulative or single reporting from each terminal
• Batch printing queued for courier runs etc.

G-EDIT WORD PROCESSOR

• Fully integrated for Windows and MediPATH
• Will run on any PC
• Most MicroSoft Word features included
• All documents backed up with routine MediPATH backup process
• Graphic images (slides and photos) handled automatically
• Spelling checker with Medical Dictionary included - may be edited by user
• Abbreviations selected from scrolling pick-list (or typed in)
• Automatically called from Medipath for textual reports

See also G-Edit

CUMULATIVE REPORTS, DELTA CHECKS & GRAPHICAL DISPLAY

• Single keystroke display of historical data
• Cumulative reports user defined
• Across and down page styles available
• History and/or hospital style
• Toggle between results entry and historical report
• Option at report printing to print cumulative report
• Auto direction of cumulative reports style to specified wards, doctors, sites, locations
• On-screen cumulative report by Function Key
• "Out of Reference Range" data highlighted
• All procedures during pre-set day range displayed
• Number of lines user-defined
• Dynamically ranged screen graphing
• Pregnancy term displayed on all items
• Reference Ranges term sensitive

DELTA CHECKING

• By absolute percentage
• By rate of change
• By test or procedure
• Lookback time (X days, months etc)
• Checking in "real time"

GLOSSARIES & ABBREVIATIONS

• Unlimited Glossaries
• Fifteen line translation
• Postcode included for addresses
• Department specific glossaries and sub-glossaries
• Restricted glossaries for special data entry points
• Pre-defined Function Key entry
• Items may be "clipped" for storage in Glossary
• Automatic stop points for entry of data (e.g. measurements)
• Automatic fill-in for tables

VALIDATION & REVIEW

• Operator name, terminal number, date and time recorded
• User defined messages to display status of report
• Security level access for validation
• On the fly validation available for high security users
• Interim reports available
• Review by High Level programs
• Batch validation
• Validation by worksheet
• Double entry of data if required
• Auto-validation by on-line device with user-defined limits and special rules

REPORT PRINTING

• Immediate or queued reporting
• Queues may have up to five auto print times
• Up to 46 print queues may be defined
• Queues may be based on courier / ward runs / sites
• Remote printing of reports
• Cumulative reports queued when selected
• Automatic direction to fax machine
• Ad hoc reporting
• Different masks for different reports
• Ware reports assemble data using pre-defined layouts
• Redirection of report to different printer by Function Key
• System warning when printing incorrect
• Interim reports available
• Screen review of complex reports
• Auto distribution of different report styles where specified
• Multiple printing masks downloaded to print

ELECTRONIC RESULTS DOWNLOAD

• On-line viewing with security restrictions
• Automatic download and insertion in Practice software
• Audit trails for delivery confirmation
• Printed report may be suppressed

See also "AllTalk"

See also "Webstro"