COVID-19 Tippy - COVID-19 Lab Quick Filter in Chart Review

Tippies can be quickly adopted with immediate workflow benefits...
  • COVID-19 Quick Filter in Chart Review Labs
The "Chart Review" activity is available in all Connect Care Hyperspace configurations, usually the leftmost activity at the top of an opened chart. Chart Review includes a "Labs" tab that defaults to a list of all available laboratory results, sorted chronologically.

This is a good place to check for current, recent or past COVID-19 test results. A "Quick Filter" is easily created so that a single click instantly displays COVID-19 test results any time a chart is opened to the labs review.

  1. Click on the "Filters" button within Chart Review >> Labs.
  2. Select the "Order" filter type if not selected by default.


  3. Enter "COVID-19" in the "Order contains..." search box. It is important to match the spelling and capitalization as it would appear in a results list. All COVID-19 test results should appear in the results list area.
  4. Look to the bottom of the Filter column and select "Save as New Filter" to see a pop-up offering to create a new filter that will pull test results that have "COVID-19" in the test name.


  5. Give the new custom filter a name like "COVID-19 Tests".
  6. A checkbox will appear in the Filters row just above listed lab results. Selecting this will filter out just the COVID-19 results. This can be used for any patient to quickly review present and past testing.


  7. If a Quick Filter is active, you can use the above steps to change its parameters (e.g., add in other lab tests that are helpful assessing the severity of COVID-19 illness to produce a filter that focuses attention on what is most relevant to COVID-19 prognostication).
  8. An existing Quick Filter can be removed by selecting the personalization icon (wrench) at the top-right of the Chart Review activity, then the "Manage Quick Filters" command.

Of course, this tip can be applied to other clusters of lab tests commonly sought in one's work... with efficiency dividends!