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Lab Orders
Overview
What is a Lab Order Form in Elation?
The Lab Order Form allows you to efficiently request tests on a patient’s specimen—such as blood, urine, or tissue—to obtain important results that can guide diagnosis or treatment.
What are the benefits of using Elation’s Lab Order Form?
Elation’s Lab Order Form standardizes and streamlines the lab ordering process.
- Input all required patient and test details in structured fields to prevent data entry errors
- Leverage patient details (e.g. demographics and insurance) that are already saved in the chart for efficiency.
- Select tests and codes from standardized databases to avoid ambiguity
How do I send a lab order to a lab vendor?
Use one of the following methods to send the lab order to the lab vendor:
Set-up Requirements
To begin using Elation’s Lab Order Form, follow the instructions below.
Workflow Guides
Use the workflow guide that best matches the interface status of the vendor you’re ordering from:
- Creating lab orders for lab vendors without any type of lab interface.
- Creating lab orders for lab vendors with a pending or live results-only interface.
- Creating lab orders for lab vendors with a pending bidirectional lab interface.
- Creating lab orders for lab vendors with a live bidirectional lab interface.
Lab Results
Overview
What is a lab result in Elation?
Lab results are the outcomes of medical tests that analyze samples of a patient’s blood, urine, other bodily fluids, or tissues.
Lab results can be received via:
- Electronic transmission from a live lab interface.
- eFax through Elation's Fax Inbox.
- Paper and then uploaded to the patient’s chart.
- Patient Passport and then stored in the patient’s chart.
Refer to the Workflow Guides section below to learn more about how each type of result makes its way into the chart.
Set-up
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Set up lab interfaces (mandatory)
Workflow Guides
Receiving lab results
Use the workflow guide that best matches the nature of the patient’s lab result:
Sharing lab results
Close-the-Loop
Overview
What does Close-the-Loop mean?
Close-the-Loop is a feature that helps your practice follow-up on a patient’s orders and referrals.
- Orders and referrals are marked as ‘Outstanding’ until someone updates them to ‘Fulfilled’ when the test results or consult notes are added to the chart.
- You can also set a reminder to appear in your Practice Home Reminders inbox if an order hasn’t been marked as ‘Fulfilled’ by the date you choose.
Set-up
There are two versions of the Close-the-loop experience that you can request.
One option lists all of a patient’s outstanding referrals and orders together under the Outstanding Items chart section for easy access. The second option only shows the Close-the-Loop status when you scroll to each order and referral in the Chronological Record or Reports dialog. More details about this distinction can be found in the workflow instructions below.
To request the Close-the-Loop feature, click I need help -> Contact Elation Support and specify which version of the feature you prefer.
- Option 1: Please enable the Close-the-Loop feature. I want outstanding orders & referrals to always appear in the ‘Outstanding Items’ section of my patient charts.
- Option 2: Please enable the Close-the-Loop feature. I do not want outstanding orders & referrals to always appear in the ‘Outstanding Items’ section of my patient charts.
Workflow Guides
Click here for instructions on how to use the Close-the-Loop feature.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Elation have any interfaces with lab centers?
Yes, Elation has interfaces with many lab centers to receive electronic lab results. For some vendors, orders can also be sent electronically through Elation’s Lab Order Form. You can always find the latest list of interfaced partners and the type of integration possible on our Partners page.
Can I order other medical tests in Elation?
Yes! You can also order imaging (radiology), cardiac, pulmonary, and sleep tests in Elation. Click here for more information about the different medical tests forms.
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