public health departments
SimpleReport data catalog
If you use SimpleReport, or you’re a public health department receiving data from SimpleReport, here’s what you can expect. SimpleReport captures all of the data needed to comply with the HHS COVID-19 Lab Data Reporting guidance COVID-19 Lab Data Reporting guidance, including ask on order entry questions and a unique specimen ID.
SimpleReport sends test results to public health departments as HL7 2.5.1 ELR (electronic lab results) through ReportStream. View the full ReportStream documentation [GitHub].
Types of fields
The categories below describe how data is created in SimpleReport:
- Required: user must enter this data
- Optional: users may enter this data, but are able to submit test results without completing it
- System-generated: the SimpleReport system automatically creates this data
Patient information
- Patient’s last name (required)
- Patient’s first name (required)
- Patient’s middle name (optional)
- Patient’s date of birth (required)
- Patient address (required)
- SimpleReport standardizes addresses:
- Patient’s street address (required)
- Patient’s city (required)
- Patient’s county (system-generated)
- Patient’s state (required)
- Patient’s zip code (required)
- SimpleReport standardizes addresses:
- Patient’s phone number (required)
- Patient’s sex (optional)
- Patient’s ethnicity (optional)
- Patient’s race (optional)
- Patient’s email (optional)
- Patient’s role (optional)
- Example: student, staff, resident, visitor
Ask on order entry
- Is the patient employed in healthcare? (required)
- Is the patient a resident of a congregate setting? (required)
- Is this the patient’s first test for COVID-19? (optional)
- If not, when was the last test, what was the test type, and - what was the result?
- Is the patient symptomatic for this disease? (optional)
- If yes, list symptoms
- Illness onset date
- Is the patient pregnant? (optional)
Test information
- Device Name (system-generated)
- The SimpleReport user selects from a dropdown menu
- Ordered test code (system-generated)
- LOINC code of the test performed. This is a standardized coded value describing the test.
- Swab Type (system-generated based on device)
- Test date (required)
- The default test date is today
Results
- Specimen ID (system-generated and unique for every test result)
- Corrected result ID (optional)
- This field is usually blank, and is used to correct or modify a past test result
- Test result code (required and system-generated SNOMED code)
SimpleReport collects facility information and organization information. A facility can belong to a parent organization, like a school district, chain of nursing homes, health system, or university.
The testing lab and ordering facility are the same thing in SimpleReport, so you’ll receive information about the same entity.
- Testing lab’s name (required)
- Testing lab’s CLIA (required)
- SimpleReport doesn’t enforce unique CLIAs
- Testing lab’s street address (required)
- Testing lab’s city (required)
- Testing lab’s state (required)
- Testing lab’s zip code (required)
- Testing lab’s phone number (required)
- Testing lab’s county (system generated)
- Organization name (required)
- Use when an organization (like a large hospital system) owns many facilities
- Ordering facility’s name (required)
- Ordering facility’s street address (required)
- Ordering facility’s city (required)
- Ordering facility’s state (required)
- Ordering facility’s zip code (required)
- Ordering facility’s phone number (required)
- Ordering facility’s county (system-generated)
- Ordering facility’s email (optional)
- Reporting facility’s name (required)
- Reporting facility’s CLIA (required)
- SimpleReport doesn’t enforce unique CLIAs
- Ordering provider’s ID (optional)
- The ordering provider’s National Provider Identifier
- Ordering provider’s last name (optional)
- Ordering provider’s first name (optional)
- Ordering provider’s street address (optional)
- Ordering provider’s city (optional)
- Ordering provider’s state (optional)
- Ordering provider’s zip code (optional)
- Ordering provider’s phone number (optional)
- Ordering provider’s county (optional)
The information below is all completely fake. It’s here to give you a sense of the information you’ll receive from SimpleReport. All required and system-generated fields appear in the example data below, but only some optional fields do.
Patient information
Patient information
- Patient’s last name: Doe
- Patient’s first name: Jane
- Patient’s middle name: A
- Patient’s date of birth: 1/1/1970
- Patient address
- Patient’s street address: 1234 Maple Street
- Patient’s city: Springfield
- Patient’s county: Pleasantview
- Patient’s state: IA
- Patient’s zip code: 12345
- Patient’s phone number: (123) 456-7890
- Patient’s sex: Female
- Patient’s race: Black or African American
- Patient’s role: Visitor
Ask on order entry
- Is the patient employed in healthcare? No
- Is the patient a resident of a congregate setting? No
- Is this the patient’s first test for COVID-19?: Yes
- Is the patient symptomatic for this disease?: Yes
- Symptoms: Chills, Fever, Cough
- Symptom Onset Date: 1/30/2021
Test information
Test information
- Device Name: Abbott BinaxNow
- Ordered test code: 94558-4
- Swab Type: Nasal swabs
- Test date: 2/1/2021
Results
- Specimen ID: 30aea118-1eae-41db-8aea-0652358fc37b
- Test result code: Negative
Testing lab/facility/organization information
- Testing lab’s name: Your Local Facility
- Testing lab’s CLIA: 12D3456789
- Testing lab’s street address: 987 Main Street
- Testing lab’s city: Springfield
- Testing lab’s state: IA
- Testing lab’s zip code: 12345
- Testing lab’s phone number: (987) 654-3210
- Testing lab’s county: Pleasantview
- Organization name: Iowa Communities Testing
- Ordering facility’s name: Your Local Facility
- Ordering facility’s street address: 987 Main Street
- Ordering facility’s city: Springfield
- Ordering facility’s state: IA
- Ordering facility’s zip code: 12345
- Ordering facility’s phone number: (987) 654-3210
- Ordering facility’s county: Pleasantview
- Reporting facility’s name: Your Local Facility
- Reporting facility’s CLIA: 12D3456789
Ordering provider information
- Ordering provider’s ID: 1538234679
- Ordering provider’s last name: Smith
- Ordering provider’s first name: Barbara
- Ordering provider’s city: Northville
- Ordering provider’s state: IA
- Ordering provider’s zip code: 23456