IMPROVED FUNCTIONALITY OF LAB HOME SCREEN FOLDERS

Providers are inundated with "New Lab Results to Review" in their lab screen folder and can easily get behind with acknowledging results in busy clinics. There's no way to search folders by account number or name and results populate the folder as OLDEST to NEWEST with no way to reverse the viewing order. This is a patient safety issue and it's made worse by the fact that there's not a way to filter Micro Culture results from other results. The task "Summarized Micro Lab Results" hasn't worked for years now. So everything is lumped into the task "Summarized Lab Results". Providers are not going to sort through the folder to find culture results. The process to review culture results, especially with the regulatory requirements for Antimicrobial Stewardship taking affect needs to be greatly improved. We'd like to be able to have a folder SPECIFICALLY for culture results and feel it will significantly decrease the potential for missed positive results. Attached is one example ...