Lab Brief Setup

This is a bird's eye view of how to set-up lab in VISTA. For all I know, it may be wrong, as I have never done the lab set-up before.

Before you start

• Keys needed: LRLIASON, LRLAB, LRVERIFY, LRSUPER

File 69.9 - Laboratory Site

One Entry via Fileman; Important Fields:

• Insitution
• Hospital location containing OOS
• Time Order Stamps
• Which Printers to Use

File 68 - Accession Areas

Entries via Fileman; Important Fields:

• Subscript to use for each accession area
• Accession Transform
• Barcode Algorithm (39 or 128)

Adding Lab Tests

• Add Data Names for each single test: via Menu Option: LRMENU > Supervisor > Lab Liason > DATA
• Add Lab Test via Fileman; Important Notes
  • Type: BOTH = Input and Output. ie, can be ordered and resulted. Input only: Can be ordered (e.g. Panel). Output only: Can be resulted only. Neither: Can neither be ordered nor resulted. Use to inactivate tests. If test is old but has results, need to change it to just Output; otherwise, results will disappear from the CPRS screen.
  • A lab test can be single or a panel ("cosmic").
  • Panels, Micro tests, Anatomic Pathology tests don't get data names
  • Single tests needs unique data names
  • All tests need unique print name
  • Unique