Having recently gone live with APEX, and moved from Labstar, I find some
features not to be user friendly. Our screen has Haematology, and this is
embedded and we are told that it is an all encompassing term rather than a
discipline. To add a comment to a result, one has to obliterate the result
with /F, write your comment, then come out, you now see the result again but
cannot see the comment, surely someone else finds that unacceptable. With
Labstar our reports printed out the results within the reference range under
a "Normal" column and results outside reference range under "abnormal". It
made scanning of results on reports rapid, and I know it was not ideal, but
it is a lot better than all under one column and a little asterix beside the
result. There seems to be a lot of going into screens. Our reports with
Labstar had a Guidec 9 line general interpretive guide attached to each
printed report, but this was not attached to the report when one looked it
up on the ward or lab terminal, now the Guidec is attached to each report on
all screens, such that it is difficult to see the report. How have others
found the change over to APEX?
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Dr. Helen Grimes, Dept. of Clinical Biochemistry, UCH, Galway, Ireland
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