In the last BSI Feature Focus, we took a look at some of the editing tools BSI makes available to users to help streamline data entry and processing, and minimize some of the errors that can occur during that process. Today we will continue to explore these editing tools beginning with the BSI Importing Wizard. Available in any batch editor, the importing wizard is a dialog containing a series of pages designed to help make importing file data straightforward and easy. Whether you’re importing a shipment manifest or an inventory document, BSI’s importing tool takes you step by step through a process of formatting file data, matching column headers in the import file to fields that exist in BSI, and even translating file data so that it matches values stored in BSI. Using this tool, entire batches of data can be populated into editors so that specimens can be immediately received, processed or entered into a user’s database.
BSI batch editors also work with scanners in a number of ways, removing the need to input every single piece of specimen data manually. Throughout BSI, nearly any field that can be populated with keyed data can also be populated with a scanned entry. However in BSI batch editors, tools also exist to allow specimens to be added to a batch, received in a shipment, committed to a location and processed in a requisition via scanning on a user-specified field.
BSI Shipment editors have tools allowing users to record, edit and resolve discrepancy information, ensuring that any difference between manifest data and observed data is recorded and tracked throughout the life of the specimen.
Finally, batch editors in BSI provide users with tools for checking multi-level errors spanning from local, batch level errors like syntax mistakes or conflicting data values to higher level errors like duplicated specimen Id’s or reservation conflicts.
BSI aims to make entering and processing specimen data as easy as it is customizable to specific workflows. By providing the tools that have been outlined here, BSI helps to ensure that users are able to work with specimen data in a way that increases efficiency, decreases errors and improves the overall specimen handling experience.