Feature: Veterinary Lab Integration
Lab Orders and Results Inside the Patient Record
Direct integration with reference labs and in-house analyzers — orders go out, results come back, and trends are visible in the same place clinicians document care.
Get StartedWhy It Matters
Lab data is one of the highest-leverage parts of the patient record, and one of the most fragmented. PDF results emailed back from reference labs require manual filing; in-house analyzer printouts get scanned, mislabeled, or lost. Direct integration delivers structured results into the patient record automatically — which means trends are visible without scrolling through PDFs and orders flow back to the right machine without re-entry.
Problems It Solves
PDF-Only Results Don't Trend
When results arrive as PDFs, individual values can't be trended over time and clinicians can't see at a glance whether kidney values are stable or declining.
Manual Order Entry on the Analyzer
When the in-house analyzer doesn't receive orders electronically, technicians re-key patient ID, test selection, and sample type — introducing labeling errors that risk wrong-patient results.
Lost or Misfiled Reference Lab Results
Email-only results delivery depends on someone filing them in the right record. Misfiled results delay treatment and create medical-legal exposure.
Inconsistent Reference Ranges
Different labs use different reference ranges; without integration, comparing results across labs requires manual normalization that often doesn't happen.
Capabilities
Direct Reference Lab Integration
Orders sent and results received electronically from major reference lab partners, with structured values that trend in the patient record.
In-House Analyzer Connectivity
Bidirectional integration with in-house chemistry, hematology, and urinalysis analyzers — orders downloaded to the device, results uploaded automatically.
Trended Lab Values
Numeric results trend over time per analyte, with reference range visualization and automatic flagging of out-of-range values.
Result Review & Sign-Off
Clinicians review and sign off on results from a queue, with automatic client communication for normal results and prompts for abnormal.
Workflow Integration
Order Entry From the Encounter
Lab orders selected from the SOAP note flow without re-entering patient ID or signalment.
Patient Identification on Sample Labels
Printed sample labels with patient ID, test panel, and bar code so the lab or analyzer can match results back without manual matching.
Critical-Value Alerts
Critical results (e.g., severely abnormal electrolytes) page the on-duty clinician rather than sitting in the result queue.
Multi-Lab Configuration
Practices that use more than one reference lab need to configure routing per test type, by cost, turnaround, or specialty.
Traditional vs Modern Software
Lab workflows have moved from PDF-and-fax to direct, structured integration:
Results emailed as PDFs and manually filed in the record
Structured results delivered electronically and trended automatically
In-house analyzers re-keyed for every patient
Bidirectional integration: orders down to the device, results back
Critical values noticed when someone happens to read them
Critical-value alerts page the on-duty clinician immediately
Cross-lab comparisons require manual reference-range normalization
Trended values with reference range visualization in one timeline
Veterinary Lab Integration in PetChart
PetChart's lab integration removes the manual filing step. Orders flow from the SOAP note to the right lab or in-house analyzer, results arrive structurally and trend in the patient record, and critical values surface to the right clinician without delay.
- Direct reference lab integration with major partners
- Bidirectional in-house analyzer connectivity
- Numeric results trended per analyte with reference ranges
- Critical-value alerts to the on-duty clinician
- Lab orders generated from the encounter without re-entry
- Multi-lab routing per test type and clinical context
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