LAB SHIPPING CONFIGURATION (62.9)    FILE (1)

Name Value
NAME LAB SHIPPING CONFIGURATION
DESCRIPTION
This file is used to define and described a relationship between two
facilities, a collecting facility and a host facility, for the collecting,
processing, receipting and reporting of laboratory testing of clinical
specimens. It is used to control the building of shipping manifests which
are used as shipping documents for the transport of clinical specimens between
the facilities which make up the configuration. It controls how the specimens
are processed at both facilities and the means and methods used to
communicate test orders and results for these two entities.