Document Specimen Collection Details
- On the ASC-Intraprocedure template, navigate to the Specimen Collection panel, and click Add.
The ASC Specimen Collection template launches.
- Enter the following specimen collection details:
- Send to
- Method
- Type
- Qty
- To enter the Location where the specimen was obtained, do one of the following:
- To add a single location, select a value from the list and click Cancel.
- To add more than one location, select a value from the list, click OK to select another location, and then click Cancel to close the list.
The selected options concatenate in the Location field separated by commas. The maximum character limit of the field is 100. An alert message appears if you exceed the maximum limit of characters in the Location field. - Select the Container the specimen is stored in from the list.
The system populates the following fields with data from the corresponding procedure documented in the Procedure panel.
- Procedure
- Pre procedure diagnosis description
- Code
- Pre Procedure Indication
The system populates the Ordering provider field with the provider selected in the Rendering provider field in the General panel.
- To change the fields that have been populated automatically, simply click the field and select a value from the list.
Note: If you change the values of the fields populated from other templates, the updates only apply to the fields on the ASC Specimen Collection template.
The Order priority field defaults to Routine.
- (Optional) Click the Order priority field to select the appropriate value from the list.
- To change the ordering provider, click Ordering provider and select the appropriate provider from the list.
- If you change the value in the Ordering provider field, the system does not update the value in the Rendering provider field in the General panel.
- Select a Lab test description from the list.
The Lab test code field populates with the corresponding code for the selected lab test description.
- Enter any additional information in the Comments field.
- To place the pathology order, select the Place order check box.
The Ordered column displays a value of Yes in the Specimen Collection grid.
- Click the Add New button is used to save and clear the data from all the fields to add new data.
- Click Save & Close to close the ASC Specimen Collection template and upload specimen collection details to the grid in the Specimen Collection panel.