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Nothing an instrument sends enters a report on its own. Results arrive in a review queue, a scientist accepts each one, and accepting runs exactly the same path as typing the result in by hand. The screen’s own subtitle says it: “Register each analyzer (or its bridge PC) with a private key. Incoming results queue below for review — nothing enters a report until a scientist accepts it.”

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Register an analyser

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Open the dialog

Select Register analyzer. It explains what is about to happen: “A private key is generated for the analyzer’s bridge — it authenticates every result it posts.”
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Name the instrument

Enter a Name the bench will recognise (for example Chemistry bench analyzer) and, optionally, the Model (for example Mindray BS-240). Select Register.
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Copy the key immediately

The Bridge key for {name} dialog appears with the key in a read-only field. Select the copy button — the toast reads Key copied — then paste it into the analyser bridge’s configuration before you close the dialog with Done.
The bridge key is shown once, at the moment it is generated, and is never shown again. If you close the dialog without copying it, the only way forward is New key on that row — which issues a fresh key and stops the old one working, so the bridge goes silent until you reconfigure it.

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The registry

Each registered instrument gets a row: Analyzer, Model, Status, Last seen and Actions. Before anything is registered the table reads No analyzers registered yet.

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Accept a result

The queue is headed Results awaiting review ({n}), with the rule underneath: “Accept runs the same screen + finalize path as the manual form. Urine payloads without SVT values must be entered manually.”
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Read the row

Each payload shows Received, Analyzer, Specimen / LAN, Matched and Values. Matched means ClinikEHR has tied the payload to an order on your worklist; Unmatched means it has not.
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Check the values against the specimen

This is the review. Compare the reported values and the specimen or accession number on the row with the order you expect them to belong to.
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Accept or discard

Select Accept — the toast reads Result accepted into screening and the result travels the same screening and finalisation path as a manually entered one. Select Discard for a payload that should not be used at all; the toast reads Payload discarded.
When there is nothing to do the queue reads Nothing waiting — new analyzer payloads appear here.

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Two things the instrument cannot finish for you

Accept stays disabled on any row badged Unmatched. There is no order for the result to attach to — usually the specimen or accession identifier the instrument sent does not match the one on the order. Correct the identifier at the bench and let the analyser resend, or enter the result manually against the order. See Accession an incoming specimen.
Specimen validity testing is part of the screen, and an instrument that sends only the drug results has not completed it. Enter that result manually on the screening form instead — see Screening and confirmation.

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Check it worked

  • The analyser appears in the registry as Active, and Last seen changes from never to a timestamp once its first payload arrives.
  • New payloads raise the count in Results awaiting review ({n}).
  • An accepted result appears on the bench workflow exactly as a hand-entered one does — see Enter and verify results.

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If something goes wrong

You are on Starter Lab. The card reads Analyzer interfacing is a Professional feature — Register your analyzers, receive their results automatically, and accept them into the screening workflow with one click. Included from the Professional Lab plan. See Change your plan.
The bridge is not reaching you. Confirm it is configured with the key you copied at registration, that the analyser is Active rather than Paused, and that nobody has since issued a New key on that row.
Either the row is Unmatched, or you hold “Configure analysers and interfaces” but not “Verify and authorise results”. Accepting a result is the sign-out step, so it needs the verify grant as well — see Permissions.
Select New key on that analyser’s row, copy the replacement, and update the bridge. The old key stops working the moment the new one is issued.
Analyser integration is still rolling out and is priced per interface. If you are on a plan that includes it and want an instrument connected, contact support.