Setup
Before you can order in-house tests, create a Lab Vendor for your own practice:1
Go to Labs settings
Click on your email address in the upper right-hand corner of Elation, then go to Settings → Labs.
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Add a Lab Vendor for your practice
Click + Add Lab Vendor and create a Lab Vendor using your practice’s name.
Entering the order
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Open the Lab Order Form and select your practice as the Lab Vendor.
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Under the Any Site dropdown, select In-house draw.
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Complete the remainder of the order.
- If a test you perform isn’t listed, click Create a new test with this name… to add it to your test database.
Entering the charge
The Lab Order Form does not support billing. Enter the CPT codes and charges separately in the billing section of the associated visit note. To speed this up, you can either:- Store the codes in Popular CPT Codes settings for quick selection on each visit.
- Add the codes to a Visit Note Template so they’re applied in bulk whenever the template is used.
Entering results in a visit note
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Check the Point-of-Care Labs form
If the test you performed is available in the Point-of-Care Labs form, enter the results there and export them to the visit note.
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If the test isn't in the Point-of-Care Labs form, choose how to document it:
- To record structured, trendable values: Upload a blank PDF, file it as a Lab Report, and use the + Lab Values feature to store the results in the chart.
- To record results that don’t need to be structured or trended: Type the test name and result directly into the Data section (or another section of your choice) of the visit note.