Tip: Non-Integrated Diagnostic Results
Patients may have diagnostic order results that need to be added to their medical record but that are not from a lab integrated with Vetspire. These results can be added to Patient Chart > Diagnostic or manually uploaded to their chart.
What is a non-integrated diagnostic result?
Non-integrated labs are often diagnostics performed by clinic staff, requiring the staff to collect samples, run tests, and gather results within the clinic’s lab (instead of using a lab integrated with Vetspire, such as IDEXX or Antech, to obtain results). Common examples of non-integrated diagnostics include heartworm and fecal tests.
In an encounter, you can add a non-integrated diagnostic in the Orders section using the Search for order to add field. When ordered through an encounter, non-integrated diagnostic results must be entered manually.
Example:
Do not use the + Order Diagnostic button to order non-integrated diagnostics. This button is intended only for labs integrated with Vetspire.
How is a non-integrated diagnostic result included in Patient Chart > Diagnostic?
In the settings for the product type that the non-integrated diagnostic is assigned to (in Financials > Manage > Types), either the In-House Diagnostic? or Reference Diagnostic? option must be set to Yes. This enables the system to list non-integrated diagnostics in the Diagnostic Results table of Patient Chart > Diagnostic.
Manually Upload Non-Integrated Diagnostic Result to Patient Chart
Before You Get Started
Print and scan or save the lab results to your computer’s file explorer.
Go to Patient Chart > Chart and select the Upload button.
Select the diagnostic result file from your device’s file explorer.
In the Document Upload window:
Rename the file, if needed.
Set the Category field to Diagnostics.
Select Upload.
The file is then saved to Patient Chart > Chart > Uploads.