labels for lab services
Hi Tony
is it possible to get Open VPMS to print a label, once a lab accesion number is generated
with owners details and accession number on it?
thanks
Jon Carruthers
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Re: labels for lab services
John the simplest method of doing this is to add a form to each product (lab service) you wish to print the label for -
The product would then have an Investigation and a document associate with it.
The problem would be that I dont believe it is possible to retrieve the lab request number or as you call it the accession number of the associated investigation. to be placed on the generated document. To do this would require some code changes.
But you can print a Sample label using the above method with all the owner and pet details on it quite easily
Ben
Re: labels for lab services
Hi Jon,
If you add the label template (Patient Form) to the Investigation Type in Administration->Types then you can print the form (label) from the Investigation screen. This way you do get access to the Investigations Request ID.
Cheers Tony
Re: labels for lab services
Yep I should have mentioned doing that - however if you use a custom accession form you can only use 1 or the other not both currrently investigations only support 1 form
What I mean by this is you can have an accession form - ie the lab submission form OR a Sample label but not both associated with each Investigation type
Re: labels for lab services
Hi guys,
I am not sure if I am doing something different and it may not be helpful, but we use investigations in our lab submission forms and it works really well. We use them for IDEXX, ASAP and Gribbles with no problems with any of them.
Adrian and I went through this in an email so I will try to copy and paste our instructions.
1. Create an investigation type for the path company you want to use (example here is IDEXX)
2. Attach a Template (patient letter) to the Investigation type (see above) - I've attached our document so you can see where I've put all our merge fields.
3. In each 'product' link an investigation to the the product. Ie the Product: Histopathology IDEXX will have an investigation 'IDEXX External Pathology'.
4. The steps we take are:
Charge the patient the pathology charge (ie Histopatholgy Idexx)
This will create an investigation automatically and a document (even though it doesn't look like there is one)
Go to the patient document tab - Print the docuement (it will look like there isn't a document there, just an investigation, but if you press print, there actually is a document there.)
It will have the Investigation (merge field 'id' within the document
5. The only problem is that you can't edit the document before printing because it's a PDF, but our vets are fine with it and just hand write the clinical history.
This has drastically reduced the number of missed or incorrect charges we have.
Any issues and I can forward you more info.