Mapped Lab Results

[Scott Morris]

I'm working with a client that's trying to get their HEO Lab Concepts to show up on their iForms.  I went through all the normal troubleshooting steps of making sure that the patient actually had a result, that the result was within the timeframe window, that the result will show up when it's tied to an FO, etc.  But, for whatever reason, when trying to map it in an iForm, we're just getting the "None available" response.

I'm beginning to wonder if it's a unit conversion issue, but wouldn't that also make it not work when tied to an FO? If anyone has any good tips on troubleshooting, I'm all ears.

Oh, and to give more information, I don't believe that this client has lab results on any of their live iForms yet; I can't confirm that it's working on iForms anywhere in their system, so it could also be some sort of global setting. (maybe?)

[Scott Morris]

For those wondering, I was able to pin down what was going on here.  There were several lab results that I was able to get to work but two specifically that wouldn't.  It turns out that HEO does not like custom-built lab concepts with certain names (I'm guessing it has something to do with a hard-coded value somewhere deep in the coding.)

I can't give a full list, but I can tell you for certain that if you create a lab concept called either "PTT" or "INR," it will not be able to be mapped into a VGR iForm.  I've since created new lab concepts called "PartialThromb" and "IntNormalRatio," moved the LABEL_SEQ to the new concept, and tried that in the mapping and it works like a charm.

If you're not sure how to map lab concepts into your VGR iForms, you'll want to initialize a variable in your VGR in the INIT phase like this:

INIT,MAP,LOCAL,pttValue,TO,patient.lab_result.PartialThromb.value
INIT,MAP,LOCAL,pttDate,TO,patient.lab_result.PartialThromb.date

Then to put it in your page, you would use your usual syntax for showing a local variable: @@pttValue@@ / @@pttDate@@