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Act I: Voyage into GenRes Act II: Fantastic Facts

Learn why and how to use GenRes in your test system, along with the benefits it provides. Discover fantastic facts about SoftLab and hotkeys to enhance your experience.

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Act I: Voyage into GenRes Act II: Fantastic Facts

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  1. Act I: Voyage into GenResAct II: Fantastic Facts Presenting Voyagers: Judy Brockman Jane Blackmar

  2. Overview Act I: Voyage Into GenRes Why Use GenRes? Building a GenRes in your Test System End Results Act II: Fantastic Facts about SoftLab Seven Fantastic Facts Hot keys

  3. Act I: Voyage Into GenRes Why Use GenRes? Building a GenRes in your Test System End Results

  4. Why Use GenRes? What’s in it for you? Alleviates the need to take down your production instrument interfaces quite so often Tests all flagging, ranges and other components such as RBS for posted results Saves on the cost of reagents

  5. Building a GenRes Let’s Build It! • Change port address to /dev/tty<instrument code>. (i.e. /dev/ttyZCHM1.) See item #1 • Change trace file name to instrument code dot trace. (i.e. ZCHM1.trace.) See item #2

  6. Building a GenRes • Active field set to “Y” See item #3 • Auto-post box Checked (yes) See Item #4 • Autod (auto-download) set to “Yes to all” See item #5

  7. Building a GenRes • Translation Table • Enter the analytes as usual. • After the analytes are built, the auto-result range is entered.

  8. Building a GenRes • Result Syntax – range of numbers In the ‘Instrument’ column, precede the test code with an exclamation mark (!) followed by the test code In the ‘Description’ column, enter the result range to be used for auto-result generation. The lowest value is at the left with the highest value at the right. The 2 numbers are separated by a colon • NA example before [110:119] The result generated will be between and including 110 & 119 – whole numbers

  9. Building a GenRes • Result Syntax – single number If only a single result is desired, enter only that value in the ‘Description’ • 4.2 • Result Syntax – alphanumeric Enter the results separated by commas • Positive, Negative, Non-reactive

  10. Building a GenRes Troubleshooting Screens Lstn Name and Dir Lstn don’t match. A ‘missing’ parameter is present when the interface is restarted.

  11. Building a GenRes Troubleshooting Screens • LSTN Name and Dir_LSTN changed to match

  12. Building a GenRes Troubleshooting Screens • Port Name syntax is incorrect • ZCHM1 trace file says to remove the forward slash between ‘tty’ and ‘ZCHM1’. The trace includes an example ‘Like, /dev/ttyGNRES’

  13. Building a GenRes Troubleshooting Screens • ZCHM1 is not running • Trace file startup confirms no missing parameter

  14. Building a GenRes Troubleshooting Screens • Auto-Download (Autod) not set to “Y” • Appears to have started OK but trace file identifies the problem

  15. Building a GenRes End Result

  16. Building a GenRes

  17. Questions? • Now would be the logical time for questions if you have them • Looks great on paper, let’s try it

  18. Act II: Fantastic Facts about SoftLab • Five Fantastic Facts • Hot keys

  19. Fantastic Facts about SoftLab • Fantastic Fact #1: Order Entry > File > Recent Orders • Fantastic Fact #2: Order Entry > File > Recent Patients

  20. Fantastic Facts about SoftLab • Fantastic Fact #3:   The “MORE” button can be used to show additional information not available in Query due to space availability

  21. Fantastic Facts about SoftLab • Additional information displayed using MORE button

  22. Fantastic Facts about SoftLab • Fantastic Fact #4: Test Details in Query or press ENTER when the test is highlighted

  23. Fantastic Facts about SoftLab • Test Details Screen captures a lot of information such as: • Test Status:    assigned, collected, received, downloaded, resulted, verified (will also include called and ! for reported.) • Provides the ordering and the Testing workstations. • If supervisor reported and / or reviewed:  shows ID of the supervisor with the date and time

  24. Fantastic Facts about SoftLab • By clicking the RepHist button at the bottom of the Test Details window additional report history information will display • Supervisor Review Dialog

  25. Fantastic Facts about SoftLab • Fantastic Fact #5 Under Instrument Menu:  • Bolded Instrument name of NITE refers to a group of instruments that accommodates a night shift crew and assists with combining the results into one field • Thus making night resulting an easier task for the technician On the right hand side, the number of days that display past results by date shown is hosparam controlled

  26. Fantastic Facts about SoftLab • Fantastic Fact #6 The Hosparam is called:  “numauto” • Main Description: Sets the number of days that orders which are Auto-downloaded will be kept on the loadlist before they are purged • Caution: If the list gets too long the search will timeout and it will appear as though the instrument couldn’t read the barcode

  27. Fantastic Facts about SoftLab • Fantastic Fact #7 Hold down the ‘ALT’ key and tap the ‘Tab’ key until the application desired is in the box

  28. Fantastic Facts about SoftLab Hot Keys: Any menu items that have hot keys will list them to the right (circled) The underlined letter in the menu option can also be used as a hot key

  29. Summary • Act I: Voyage Into GenRes • Why Use GenRes? • Building a GenRes in your Test System • End Results • Act II: Fantastic Facts about SoftLab • Seven Fantastic Facts • Hot keys

  30. Fantastic Facts about SoftLab • Questions? • We can do it, Captain!

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