Two-person result verification
Entering a result and releasing it are separate acts, by separate people.
- A technician records the value, and the order waits in a verification queue.
- Somebody else — another technician, the requesting doctor or an administrator — reads it back and releases it. The system refuses to let the person who entered a result verify it.
- Until it is released, clinical staff see the result marked provisional, and the patient does not see it at all.
- A released result is never overwritten. A correction needs a reason, keeps the superseded value on the record, and withdraws the result from the patient portal until it has been checked again.
- The report reads as amended from then on, and FHIR exports carry the same distinction: preliminary, final or amended.