Lab specimen defaults

About 95% of our labs are released future orders or placed by our providers. Our lab personnel very seldom have to enter a lab order in the lab order entry in system menu. Lab reportables must have specimen information attached and the specimen defaults only work for lab entered labs which is useless in our case and causes our lab staff to spend extra time entering all this information. Can the defaults be more based on item number or have a default list that we can select from when not entered in the ancillary order entry???