UF Health Lab/Pathology

Research Orders

For ALL UF Health orders, study teams should be following the electronic research order workflows in Epic, which include:

• Associate a Patient to a Study
• Pend Orders – Inpatient and Hospital Outpatient Department (HOD)
• Pend Orders – Outpatient and Ambulatory
• Complete Billing Charge Review

Paper Research Order Forms

• In addition to entering UF Health Lab/Pathology research orders into Epic, each specimen must have a yellow paper order form attached.
• UF Health Lab/Pathology staff will provide study team with yellow research order forms to be included with study specimens.
• To order an extra tube of blood off an SOC blood draw at no charge, do NOT place an Epic order and use the UF Health Blood Draw Station – Extra Research Tube Off SOC Draw form.

Questions?

• Contact Lab Customer Service & Research Help via LabResearchHelp@shands.ufl.edu.
• You can also contact the OCR Coverage Analysis & Budget team via OCR-PCR@ad.ufl.edu.