Laboratory News: Ordering of Non-blood Specimens in KiDDOS

In order to avoid unnecessary cancellation of orders, effective February 4, 2011, all non-blood specimens ordered in KiDDOS have their order status default automatically to “conditional.” As a result of having “conditional” status, these orders must be activated when the specimen is obtained, rather than when it is ordered. The order remains in the system as a pending order until it is activated. The laboratory label for the order prints at the time of activation. Orders with a status other than “conditional” (all blood samples) remain on the pending collection list for 24 hours. If such a specimen has not been received in the laboratory 24 hours after it is ordered, the order is cancelled by the laboratory computer system. No call indicating this cancellation is made to the ordering physician; however, the comment “Specimen not received by lab” appears in the KiDDOS order as an alert that the test was cancelled. No record of the order appears in Clinical Desktop.

The Wellsoft System in the EU does not automatically recognize non-bloods as conditional orders. Therefore, any specimen orders, blood and non-blood, are cancelled after 24 hours if not received by the lab.

For more information, contact Susan Deuser at smd6071@bjc.org.