Managing the Lightning Queue
If an administrator enabled automatic report distribution for you, all patient test results that come from the lab or that you enter manually are automatically added to the AutoReport queue in eLabs. Lightning automatically retrieves those reports from that queue at regularly scheduled intervals and then prints or downloads them. If multiple Lightning accounts are associated with the same client, the reports remain in the queue until all Lightning accounts have retrieved them. When all of the reports have been distributed, they are automatically removed from the queue. (Even when reports are removed from the AutoReport queue, you can still access them as described in Accessing Patient Test Results.)
In some instances, it might be necessary to restore (add) or remove reports in the queue manually. For example, if problems occurred when the reports were printed (such as the printer running out of ink), you might want to restore the reports so that they are printed after the problem has been fixed. Likewise, even if you print the reports using eLabs, they remain in the AutoReport queue until they are retrieved by Lightning. To ensure that the same reports are not printed twice, you might want to remove those reports from the queue.
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