The Ardens Blood Test Due Analyser alerts practice staff to any blood tests due for the patient, based on their long term conditions, prescribed medication, and recorded diary entries. Additionally, it alerts staff to other required non-blood monitoring based on specific medications, such as ECG, BMI, blood pressure, weight and heart rate monitoring.
For guidance on the criteria used in the Blood Test Due Analyser, please access the following link.
Please note - The blood test due analyser only alerts for bloods due in ‘steady-state’ drug monitoring. It will not flag for monitoring requirements related to drugs recently started or where doses are being titrated as these often have different monitoring frequencies.
Blood Test Due Analyser Alert
When accessing a patient record, practice staff will be alerted to any blood tests and non-blood monitoring due today. It also highlights blood test diary entries that are due within a month or are overdue. The alert will display in the pink alert box.
Hovering over the alert will display further details of the blood tests due.
The blood test due are broken down into three categories:
- Medication monitoring bloods due or overdue - include blood tests relating to prescribed repeat medications. It will only flag for bloods due in 'steady-state' drug monitoring.
- Long-term conditions blood due or overdue - includes blood tests relating to the patient's long term-conditions.
- Diary recall bloods due within 1 month or overdue - includes all Ardens Diary Recall System blood tests.
There is then a separate section in the alert for non-blood monitoring:
- Medication monitoring non-bloods due or overdue – includes non-blood monitoring relating to prescribed repeat medications.
We recognise that GP practices may wish to decide themselves which blood tests are actually required and this is the reason we have created these categories. For example if you are not using the Ardens Diary Recall System that you may ask your staff to ignore category (3) above.
Please note – if there are no tests due now, the alert will advise of this. Double clicking on the alert will launch the “Blood Test Due Analyser” template which will show if there any tests due soon.
Blood Test Due Analyser Template
For practice staff that wish to view further details on the blood test due now or blood tests due soon for the patient, double click on the Blood Test Due alert.
This will launch the Blood Test Due Analyser template.
All blood tests will appear at the top of the template:
The red warning triangle signifies the blood test is due now and the hour glass signifies the blood test may be due soon.
For blood tests due now the tick box will be selected by default and will display in the consultation once the template is saved. It is important to note that this is for the record only and does not 'request' the test(s).
For any diary entries recorded for blood tests using the Ardens Diary Recall System, the date due will display to the right of the field.
All non-blood monitoring requirements will appear in the section headed ‘additional monitoring’ and will appear after sections for blood tests required
Please note: if there are no prescribed medication that requires non-blood monitoring, then this section will not be displayed within the template.
As with blood tests, the additional monitoring section will display test that are due now indicated with a red warning triangle and the tick box will be selected by default and will display in the consultation once the template is saved. It is important to note that this is for the record only and does not 'request' the test(s).
Again, any non-blood monitoring not due yet, will be displayed in the template next and indicated by the hour glass symbol:
The Further information section provides a link to this support article should you wish to refer back to it at anytime.
Please note: The Blood Test Due Analyser is limited by the functionality that is available within EMIS Web. This means that users will still need to launch their usual system to generate phlebotomy requests (e.g. ICE).
Prescribing Monitoring Alert and BMI and BP template
The following 2 resources will now be retired as they are no longer required due to the new non-blood monitoring being included in the Blood Test Due Analyser.
Blood Test Due Analyser Trigger
Please note by default the trigger for the Blood Test Due Analyser has been set all practice staff. If you wish for the resources to be visible to certain staff categories, the trigger can be updated as follows:
- Navigate to Resource Publisher > Shared Folders > Ardens Live Toolset > Blood Test Due Analyser.
- Select the Blood Test Due QOF Box Alert protocol and click Manager Triggers on the EMIS Web ribbon.
- Click on the Add button and select the following triggers:
- Select to choose 'Specific Job Categories' to select specific job categories (this relates to the EMIS role profiles).
- Click OK to save the trigger
Deactivating the Blood Test Due Analyser
Should you decide as a practice to switch off the Blood Test Due Analyser, deactivate as follows:
- Navigate to Resource Publisher > Shared Folders > Ardens Live Toolset > Blood Test Due Analyser.
- Right click on the Blood Test Due QOF Box Alert protocol and click Status > Deactivate.
Please note - this will deactivate for all staff members.
If you require any further assistance on the process above, please contact Ardens support on: [email protected]