Tips & Tricks

How to use the “24-Hour pButtons” importable task

Downloading “24-Hour pButtons” in Instrument Manager (IM) can help you monitor the performance of your IM system. You can check baseline performance information and troubleshoot performance issues if they arise. Read on to learn how to download, install, and remove the “24-hour pButtons” task. To Install: Download the 24hourpbuttons.xml file onto each Instrument Manager...

On the Thin Client: Why do I get a “Cannot Connect to Server” message?

Scenario:When trying to launch Instrument Manager™ (IM) from Thin Client, the following message appears: Potential reasons this happened: Caché is not running IM is not installed on Thin Client IM shared folder on the Primary system permissions (read/write/modify) not granted correctly to the logged in user IM shortcut target field did not have correct domain...

Previous Results and Test Naming

Test names play a large role in determining the functionality for previous result values in Instrument Manager™ (IM). This article has some examples to help determine when test names should be unique versus identical. Here's the criteria by which previous results are considered to be related: Previous results are derived by three...

Instrument Manager™ (IM) Virtual Machine (VM) Snapshots for IT Administrators

The following information is being provided as an extended reference to InterSystems External Freeze method. While some customers may choose to utilize this information, and we can support customers using Instrument Manager in a virtualized environment, we cannot support the virtualized environment itself or the use of 3rd party backup software. Data...

Understanding Anatomic Pathology HL7 Messages

Anatomic Pathology (AP) HL7 messages are structured differently than clinical chemistry or hematology HL7 messages. The first step in understanding Anatomic Pathology HL7 messages is to understand the structure of an AP case. AP cases are comprised of four distinct layers of information in a hierarchy. Each case has one...

Understanding Anatomic Pathology HL7 Messages

Anatomic Pathology (AP) HL7 messages are structured differently than clinical chemistry or hematology HL7 messages. The first step in understanding Anatomic Pathology HL7 messages is to understand the structure of an AP case. AP cases are comprised of four distinct layers of information in a hierarchy. Each case has one...