Re: [Gnumed-devel] Fwd: re: Possible development opportunity

[J Busser]

At 10:36 PM +0200 9/13/04, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>  > Local lab companies seem very uninterested in receiving lab requests
>  > electronically except hand-entered into their portal which nullifies
>  > the advantage of an EMR  :-(
> It doesn't nullify the advantages for "us", does it ?

nullifies *what could have been an* advantage of an EMR  *for this 
purpose* - their is no advantage of our being able to send electronic 
lab requests to a lab that refuses to receive them

but we could still input our lab requests, get them to print on 
paper, give this to the patient and/or fax it to the lab. however 
when the results come back, there can be a difference between a test 
result code and a request code

for example, I may order a "CBC" complete blood count

- the lab sends me hemoglobin, red cell indices, white blood cell 
count, platelet count
- each has its own "test result code"
- but each test may not say that it originated from a "CBC" request
- therefore while gnumed can help me remember I wanted a CBC, gnumed 
could not tell me (without a lot of extra work) that the components 
of a cbc have all come back