HL7 Clinical Lab Interface

This interface can be used to submit clinical laboratory orders to a hospital's laboratory or a standalone laboratory and also to receive the results. Visit the contact us page at www.ulehss.com for more information about using this interface.

Requirements

The HL7 Clinical Lab Interface is a module of the SYSTOC HL7 Exchange. Hosted SYSTOC customers require no additional hardware. Self-hosted customers can obtain technical requirements for the SYSTOC HL7 Exchange from the Customer Resource Center (http://ul.custhelp.com) or by contacting Customer Support at 844.881.8713 or SYSTOCSupport@ul.com.

Hosted and self-hosted customers require an initial technical setup that includes installing the HL7 Clinical Lab Interface, configuring the communication with the Workplace Health & Safety Integration Service, and testing the communication.

If you are interested in using the HL7 Clinical Lab Interface with your hospital laboratory, you can find the SYSTOC HL7 Exchange Laboratory Data Mapping.pdf on the Customer Resource Center (http://ul.custhelp.com). This document contains the HL7 details needed by your hospital's software to receive orders from SYSTOC and return test results.

SYSTOC Setup

Once the technical setup is completed, the only SYSTOC setup required is defining the laboratory and related account information and making sure appropriate users have at least Level1 permissions or permissions for the following screens:
Screen Name and Path Component Name Permissions
Utility > Security > User Information Form Access: A, C, or O
Orders frmOrders View, Add, Edit, Allow Memo and Memo Change
File Maintenance > Laboratories frmDruglabs View, Add, Edit, Allow Memo and Memo Change
Screening Folder > Lab Results - HL7 frmLabResultsHL7 View, Add, Edit, Allow Memo and Memo Change

How does it work?

A staff person completes a specially programmed PDF that is attached to the order and saves it. Changing the order status to HL7 Send triggers the system to initiate an electronic order request to the laboratory. (You can also configure work flow sequences to change the order status to HL7 Send.) The laboratory electronically delivers test results to SYSTOC. If a matching patient record is found, the results are updated in the Screening Folder > Lab Results - HL7 screen. See Lab Results - HL7 for a detailed explanation of result data on this screen. Results without a matching record are deleted from the UL remote server.