Adding lab orders: Option to feed in lab procedures to the application based on the gender

[ViSolve]

Hi,
On feeding lab procedures to OpenEMR, the lab providers have a list of procedures order and discrete results that are common for both male and female, but these discrete results have differnt range (values) as per the gender (eg: Blood test).
Hence on adding these data, the lab provider needs to enter the same lab procedures order twice with same procedure order and discrete results but with different range if specific to gender.
This makes it more complicated when the number or count of discrete results for a particular procedure order is high having seperate discrete values specifc to gender.

Example:
On feeding lab orders specifc to blood test in OpenEMR application, the discrete results for Blood test include Heamoglobin, White Blood corpuscles and Red Blood corpuscles.
The 'range' for the mentioned discrete results varies based on gender.

• Procedure Group: Blood test

  • Procedure Order: Blood test Male

    • Discrete Result:
      • Hemoglobin: 13.5-17.5 grams/dL
      • Red blood cell count: 4.32-5.72 million cells/mcL
      • Hematocrit: 38.8-50.0 percent

  • Procedure Order: Blood test Female

    • Discrete Result:
      • Hemoglobin: 12.0-15.5 grams/dL
      • Red blood cell count: 3.90-5.03 million cells/mcL
      • Hematocrit: 34.9-44.5 percent

Hence with exisiting OpenEMR, the lab technician feeds in lab procedure order data initially for one gender (eg:Male) with appropriate discrete results and values (range) specific to male.
Later creates a new lab procedure order for Female with same data that was created for male and adds different discrete values(range) that is applicable for female.

This makes user to enter the same date set twice though only the discrete results range is different for male and female on the same procedure order.

Is there a way to handle this in a more simpler way such that the user can just have simple steps in duplicating the same set of data and customizing it as needed.

Thanks in advance and we really appreciate your assistance in this.

Thanks,
ViSolve OpenEMR Support Team
ViSolve

[Rod Roark]

Manual compendium entry is tedious. A couple of thoughts:

1. If you are receiving results electronically, it is not necessary to put entries for discrete results into the compendium.
2. You could enter your compendium data into a spreadsheet or some other preferred file format (perhaps the lab already has that?), and write code to load it into OpenEMR. That would go into interface/orders/load_compendium.php, and the code already in there can be used as examples.

Rod
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/