Smart Ways to Send Lab Reports of Patients

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The profession of a laboratory management system
is a complicated one that requires the utmost
care of the patients. The lab must convey a sense
of trust to the customers so that they can
entrust you with their samples for
analysis. Clinical Laboratories can now Wave off
Manual Work With all this hard work already
being done by clinical laboratories, the
department of HealthCare took a new turn when it
was decided that a lab has to send results
directly to the patients. This was mainly done to
relieve the stress from the patients who are
waiting for their reports from the doctors. With
instant report generation, doctors can now decide
quickly on critical cases. The mandatory direct
lab report delivery to the patient can be done in
various ways whichever is comfortable for the
patient and the lab. With the latest technology
on queue, the task has been rendered easy for the
labs to be in touch with the patients. In this
blog, let us discuss the various smart ways in
which a lab can send lab reports to patients and
deliver test sample reports to them.
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• Conveying the Message via Short Message Service
  (SMS)
• Sharing reports via SMS can add to the benefit
  of sample report collection. One small SMS on the
  result of the test analysis can set the patient's
  mind at peace.
• Lab reports once generated can easily be shared
  via SMS straight to the Patient or the Doctor,
  thus completely eliminating the need for manual
  handling, wait time, or traveling. Reports of
  multiple tests performed by the patient are
  shared as separate updates to avoid the possible
  commotion. With the intervention of LIMS in
  clinical laboratories, we help in conveying
  instantaneous report results to the patient as
  soon as the technician generates the results. SMS
  conveying system for test results has so many
  advantages some of which are
• No manual human intervention is needed
• Immediate report sharing is made possible for
  emergency cases or critical patients

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Conveying the Message via E-mails One of the
fail-safe methods for accessing patients anytime
is messaging via electronic mail or E-mails. This
way the patient can be notified even at their
place of work without them having to visit our
facilities for manual collection of the
report. Once the lab report is generated with
all the optimum observations made from the
testing of samples, it can be sent via an E-mail
in PDF format as an attachment so that the
patient can infer from the report and take the
necessary action if any is required. A
LIMS-linked lab can save many unwanted manual
tasks and immediately convey the message to the
patient and doctor for analysis. It has the same
benefits as that SMS with the added advantage of
the whole report being shared.
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Report generation on Mobile App A pre-installed
mobile app on your smartphone can even track your
test analysis phases on your mobile and let you
know when you can expect the test results. With
just a few swipes, you can view your test results
as soon as it is generated by the technician.
What better than the confidentiality of your
smartphone to let you know the results? A
smartphone with internet connectivity is all that
is needed to access reports on the go. The
advantage of the mobile app is that you can check
the readiness of your report anywhere and at any
time.
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Direct Collection of the report from the
lab Out of all the smart ways listed above,
this method can be said as the last smart one.
However, direct collection of the report from the
lab itself is also the safest method when dealing
with sensitive information. Though it requires a
physical job to get the report from the lab, it
can also be completed by posting the report from
the lab to the patients home directly. The
direct collection can be combined with all of the
above methods of lab report collected by the
patient. The patient can first be notified of the
result and feel at ease to collect the report.
With the full PDF as sent via E-mail, the report
can be viewed and consulted with a doctor also.
This makes the task of collecting the printed
report generated in the lab easy and not
urgent. These were the few methods to send lab
reports to the patient, the clinical laboratory
can use all of the methods or some of the above
to make the patient feel at ease with the lab and
thereby create a sense of trust with the lab.