Filing COVID-19 test results in Vision 3 (Wales Only)

Test results from the national COVID-19 test programme are received into Vision 3 - Mail Manager the same way as any other pathology result with the following clinical terms:

Identifier

Result 

SNOMED CT

 Vision Local Code

SARS-CoV-2-ORGY

Positive

1240581000000104

4J3R100

SARS-CoV-2-ORGN

Negative

1240591000000102

4J3R200

SARS-CoV-2-ORGU

UNKNOWN

1321691000000102

4J3R400

Viewing results in Mail Manager

To review the results in Mail Manager:

  1. From the Vision front screen, select Mail Manager Mail Manager.
  2. Select Incoming Mail and then select a mail item from the list:

  3. The message detail displays at the bottom of your screen:
    • Result - Positive

    • Result - Negative

    • Result - Unknown

  4. Providing the patient is matched, the test results automatically file into the patient's record:

Occasionally test results are received without valid clinical terms and are not automatically mapped, these messages are marked with a red cross .

To map a result line to a clinical term:

  1. Right click on the message line with the red cross and select Assign Read Code:

  2. Use the Read Dictionary screen to select the code to map to:

    The COVID-19 mapped codes are:

    Result 

    SNOMED CT

    		Vision Local Code

    Positive

    1240581000000104

    4J3R100

    Negative

    1240591000000102

    4J3R200

    UNKNOWN

    1321691000000102

    4J3R400

  3. Select OK.

To view all mapped clinical terms in Mail Manager, select Tools - Lookup...:

From here you can Add, Edit or Remove mapped codes or units.

For more information see the Quick Reference Guide provided by NWIS in early September 2020.
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