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The clinician portal

The clinician portal lives under /clinician. "This is a reading surface, not a smaller laboratory." A clinician orders and reads; nothing here touches a specimen, a run or a release.

A clinician account is not a laboratory membership. One clinician can hold relationships with several laboratories, and each laboratory grants or withdraws its own.

The pages​

AddressWhat it is for
/clinicianCritical results waiting for you, orders still out, and results released to you
/clinician/orders/newPlacing an order — "this is where an order actually comes from"
/clinician/orders · /clinician/orders/:orderIdEverything you have ordered, and where each order has got to
/clinician/patients · /clinician/patients/:patientIdThe people you have ordered for — "not a patient register"
/clinician/results · /clinician/results/:resultIdReleased results, with the reference range that applied when each was produced
/clinician/critical-resultsCritical results waiting for you to acknowledge them
/clinician/test-catalogA laboratory's catalogue, read-only, with turnaround and whether a test is referred out
/clinician/profileYour details, and which laboratories accept your orders

Getting a laboratory to accept your orders​

An order needs a laboratory that has accepted your practice. You ask with a request at /requests/new — one laboratory per request — and follow it at /my-requests. The laboratory answers from its side (see Listing a laboratory and My lab).

On /clinician/profile, "not asked" is not "refused": a laboratory you never asked has made no decision about you. Your registration number is checked by a laboratory before your first order is accepted, and a callback telephone number is required, because it is the number a laboratory rings when a critical value comes back.

Placing an order​

The order form asks who the order is for, which laboratory, which tests, and why. The patient is identified by an opaque identifier, never a name, date of birth or medical record number, so no identifying detail reaches a URL or an analytics event. Only laboratories that accepted your practice appear. The clinical question is free text that reaches a person; it is not parsed or used to suggest tests.

Critical results are acknowledged, not just shown​

"A critical result that has only been displayed has not been communicated." Acknowledging on /clinician/critical-results records who saw it and when, and that record is what tells the laboratory the result reached a person. Reading a result is a different act from acknowledging it. Acknowledged results stay visible for seven days.

If the page fails to load, it says so and does not show an empty queue: the laboratory also escalates critical results by telephone.

What a clinician can see​

Only records they are clinically involved in: orders placed by them or their practice. Anything else answers "This record is not yours to read." Amended results show both values — the one you had and the one that replaced it.

Related: Result review and release · Patient portal