Importing Downloaded Results

This section refers to results that have been downloaded into the "LabRslts" folder as described previously (see Pathology and Radiology Results).

Once the result files have been downloaded into the LabRslts folder, select Open > Pathology and Radiology.

Whenever this menu item is selected Genie looks in the local LabRslts folder to see if there are any new files.

If there are you will be asked if you want to import them now.

If you click Open, the Import window will open as shown below.

All results will be ticked by default, if you wish to import only a few of the results listed you can click the Deselect All button and tick just the required result.

Click the Import button and Genie will import the downloaded files into the database. Once the import is finished these results can be accessed by anybody on the network.

If the laboratory's downloading application has been installed on the server, then Genie can import the results automatically by ticking 'Allow Pathology Import On Server' in Practice Preferences (File > Practice Preferences > Miscellaneous tab).

Otherwise you will need to import them manually to the local machine. In this case, the Import window can be opened from the Downloaded Results list by clicking the Import button and then the results can be retrieved from the server by clicking the Retrieve From Server button. This will copy any results in the LabRslts folder on the server to the local LabRslts folder. If the retrieval is successful, the copied results are also placed into a folder called "ArchivedResults" inside the Genie folder on the server, in case you need to try importing them again.

During the import procedure, if Genie finds any problems with the downloaded file you will receive a message saying that the file is not a valid results file. Usually this is because it has not been decrypted, or it is not actually a results file at all, or there is a problem with the PIT or HL7 formatting from the laboratory. Although HL7 is a "standard", it is a very loosely defined and interpreted standard and some laboratories may format results in ways that Genie does not expect. Any invalid results will go into the folder named "Invalid Results" in the LabRslts folder.

You can choose to send Acknowledgements back to the lab to let them know you have successfully imported the results by ticking the 'Create Pathology Acknowledgements' box in Practice Preferences as shown in the above screenshot. However it is up to the lab to set up their software to retrieve those acknowledgements out of the HL7 ACKS folder in the LabRslts folder.