Patients

Opens the Patients and Samples page. This is the page that opens after you log in to the Geneticist Assistant customer portal. All the patients that are currently saved in your Geneticist Assistant database are listed in the Patients pane on the left side of the page. Any patient/sample combination that has been submitted to the customer portal for tracking purposes is displayed in the Samples pane on the right side of the page.

Submit

Opens the Submit Sample page. This is the page on which you enter the information for the patient and sample combination that you are submitting to the Geneticist Assistant customer portal. This page has seven distinct sections for entering the information for the patient and sample combination that you are submitting to the Geneticist Assistant customer portal. Your organization’s Administrator is responsible for customizing the fields that are displayed in these sections, including whether a field is enabled or disabled, and whether a field is required or optional. See Admin.

Review

Opens the Review page, where you can review a patient and sample combination and verity that the information that has been entered for it is correct before you submit the information to the customer portal.

User

Opens the User page. You use this page to enter the contact details for the providers and institutions that are to be available for inclusion with any submission including the ordering provider, the genetic counselor, the referring hospital or laboratory, and the institutional billing. Your organization’s Administrator is responsible for customizing the fields that are displayed in these sections, including whether a field is enabled or disabled, and whether a field is required or optional. See Admin.

Admin

Available only to the default Administrator user for your Geneticist Assistant installation. Opens the Admin page where the Administrator of your organization's customer portal specifies the fields that are to be enabled/disabled on the Submit and User pages, and whether an enabled field is to be required or optional. In addition to specifying the field rules for the Submit and User pages, an Admin can also customize the barcode that is automatically generated for a submission. This barcode can be used to validate that the correct patient and sample information combination was submitted to the customer portal and to confirm sample identity when you are reviewing a sample in Geneticist Assistant. Submitting Patient/Sample Tracking Information through the Geneticist Assistant Customer Portal.