Patients
The basic information unit is the patient. Before creating any analytical request, the corresponding patient record must exist. This will survive the livespan of the request, and will contain all their history.
Create
This form is divided into steps. The step the laboratory technician is on is marked by the number of the step turning orange.
Once the step is filled with the required information, the circle marking the step will stay orange and the number in said circle will change into a check mark (✓) 
- Basic information of the patient → The first step involves the obligatory entry of the name, last name and gender of the patient, as indicated by the asterisk,
. Further information is optional. To continue to the next step, the laboratory technician must press the next button found at the bottom right of the form. - Birth information → To complete this step, only the birthdate is required. To input this information, the laboratory technician has two options. They can fill in the information with the format given, or they can click on the little calendar icon,
, and select the correct date. Once this information is filled in, the box next to it will automatically be filled with the patient's current age. - Contact information → One phone number must be assigned to a patient for further contact.
- Residency information → This step has no required fields, but it contains a checkbox at the bottom, Add provenance region?. This option is for when a patient, although local, has come from outside the country. When the box is ticked, two more boxes appear on the forms, Provenance region and Provenance city.
- Extra information → This step has no required fields. The Reserved 1, 2 and 3 are boxes whose names can be modified through the System administration if the laboratory requires any specific information from the patients.
- Requests → This actually not a step in the creation or update of the patient, but just a read-only tab containing all the requests of the patient.
The next button cannot be used if any of the required fields are not filled in. In every step, apart from step 1, there is a Previous button for the laboratory technician to be able to navigate back and forth between steps and alter the information they contain.
Search and Edition
| Name | Phone | Identification | Creation Date | Last Modification Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The first column shows the patient's name | The patient's contact number is listed in this column | Here, the internal, automatically generated identification number can be found | This column informs about when the patient's information was first inputted into the system | The last time the patient's information was altered in the system is shown here |
Arrows appear next to each heading in the table when the mouse is hovered over them to manipulate the order the information is showed in for each heading.
On clicking on any row, a new form will appear with the age, gender, phone and internal identifier of the patient as well as tabs with the information on the patient's documentation information, birth information, contact information, residency information, extra information and requests. From this page, the laboratory technician can also edit the patient through the edit patient button at the bottom left of the page. To return to the search patients page, there is a Return button at the top left of the screen
Notice that to avoid inconsistences in the system, patients once created cannot be deleted.
Duplicate Detection
The e-mail address, as well as the Identifier document number optionally identify a patient. Besides this, to guarantee the existence of an identifier for each patient, a consecutive number is always automatically generated and internally assigned by the system. Moreover, patients of similar name, age and telephone number are detected as potential duplicates at creation time. On happening, a warning is displayed, and the laboratory technician can either modify the corresponding data or move ahead with the creation.