Lab results lay the groundwork for personalized care. When you order select Quest Diagnostics, Access Medical Laboratories (AML), or Access Labcorp Draw blood tests through Fullscript, you unlock interpretation tools that help you turn raw results into meaningful, actionable insights—helping you save time and better support your patients. These tools are backed by data-driven technology and clinical research to deliver clear, evidence-based analysis you can trust.
Interpretations are available for many commonly ordered tests from these labs, though availability varies by lab and test.
If you send an eligible lab with the patient questionnaire, your patient completes a short questionnaire before their test, and results come back with a drafted interpretation and plan. Learn more in Get a drafted interpretation and plan with lab results.
If you’re new to labs on Fullscript, check out Sending a lab test recommendation on how to add lab testing to your patient’s plan.
With lab interpretation tools on Fullscript, you can:
- Visualize your patient’s results within both optimal and standard reference ranges.
- Track test results over time to observe trends and progress, including a view of all results across lab orders.
- Generate interactive reports that simplify complex results into patient-friendly interpretations with recommended next steps.
Accessing test interpretations
Once final lab results are available, you’ll receive an email notification with a link to view them directly in your Fullscript account. Results are stored in your Lab orders dashboard, where you and your team can review, interpret, and share them with patients.
You can also access real-time partial results for supported Quest, AML, and Access Labcorp Draw tests as they become available. The interpretation tool becomes available once all results are final.
If your patient is enrolled in a Fullscript Journey, each recurring test result appears as a separate lab order in your dashboard. You’ll interpret and send each result individually, just like any one-time test.
To find labs with interpretations:
- Click Labs then Orders in the left-hand navigation.
- Search for your patient by name or email, or click the Results in tab to see all tests available with partial or full results.
- Click More > View details for that patient’s test.
- On the Test details page, click View results to view and build your interpretations for the final results.
For orders placed through Rupa Health, interpretation availability depends on when the results became available:
- Resulted on Rupa: Lab interpretations aren't available in Fullscript for these labs, but their results still appear in your patient's trends.
- Resulted after your move to Fullscript: Full lab interpretations are available in Fullscript, including trends.
Results that Rupa imported from other sources don't come across in the move and won't appear in trends.
Interpreting results
When viewing Quest, AML, or Access Labcorp Draw results on Fullscript, you’ll have access to a detailed summary and customizable tools to help interpret and communicate results to your patients.
It may take up to 48 hours for an interpretation report to generate once final results for a test become available. You’ll receive an email when the interpretation is ready.
Summary
The Summary at the top of the page is the letter your patient receives. Use it to summarize their results and next steps.
Select the pencil icon to edit it. If the lab was sent with the questionnaire, the Summary arrives drafted.
Health areas
On blood labs, biomarkers are grouped by health area, such as Cardiovascular or Metabolic.
To review a health area and edit its note:
- Under All biomarkers, select a health-area tab to see its biomarkers and note.
- Select the pencil icon to edit the note.
If the lab was sent with the questionnaire, each health-area note arrives drafted. Otherwise, the notes start empty.
Biomarkers
The All biomarkers table shows all tested biomarkers, including your patient’s results, optimal range data, and units of measurement.
Results use the following color coding:
- Optimal (green):: Indicates the test value is within an optimal range.
- Suboptimal (orange): Signifies high or low suboptimal lab values that fall between the standard reference range and an optimal range.
- Out of range (red): Represents high or low results based on the lab’s standard reference ranges.
To explore the results:
- Search: Use the search bar to find a specific biomarker.
- Filter: Narrow results by Marker status.
Select the arrow ( ) next to a biomarker to see additional details, including a full graph showing how your patient’s results align with optimal and standard reference ranges.
If your patient has previous results for a biomarker, these appear in their trends history as a dynamic graph. You can track progress over time without manual data entry.
To see all of your patient’s biomarker results across lab orders in one place, select View trends in the labs section of their profile. Learn more in Lab trends in the patient profile.
Biomarker interpretations and notes
For biomarkers that are out of range, the About your patient’s result section will be pre-populated with an interpretation generated by our data and machine learning systems. These systems use the latest in integrative research to offer a clear, digestible summary that helps you communicate your patient’s results. Pre-populated interpretations are available for supported Quest, AML, and Access Labcorp Draw tests.
It’s important to note that the optimal ranges and interpretations associated with results are not medical diagnoses or treatments. They’re not a substitute for your professional judgment on individual cases and aren’t meant to provide medical or professional advice.
You can edit or remove pre-populated interpretations entirely as needed to keep them focused and actionable.
To add notes or highlight biomarkers for your patient:
- Add or edit a note: Select the chat bubble icon. A highlighted chat bubble means the biomarker already has a note.
- Flag a biomarker: Select the flag icon to highlight a biomarker you want your patient to focus on. Flagged biomarkers appear in the Flagged biomarkers section.
- Remove a flag: Deselect the flag icon to remove the biomarker from Flagged biomarkers.
Sharing results
When you’re ready to share, choose an option:
- Build plan: Create a plan based on the results.
- Share results only: Send the results without a plan.
If the lab was sent with the questionnaire, you’ll have a drafted interpretation and plan. Continue to the drafted plan and share the results and plan together.
You don’t have to wait for every result to be back. If a lab order has several tests attached, you can share the results that are currently available and send the rest as they come in.
Learn more in Managing lab results and sharing with patients.
Editing after you share
After you share, you can still:
- Edit your notes: Update the Summary and health-area notes.
- Change a sent plan: Edit the plan and select Update plan.
Enabling auto-send
Auto-sending interpretations helps keep patients engaged by notifying them when results are ready. Choose to send results right away or set a delay, giving you time to review and edit before they’re released.
To set up auto-send for your lab interpretations:
- Click Labs, then Labs settings, in the left-hand navigation.
- Select Results.
- Turn on the Share results automatically toggle.
You may see a disclaimer related to the authorization network when enabling this setting. Click I acknowledge to continue.
By default, lab results and interpretations will be sent as soon as they’re available. To delay when results are shared with patients, use the Choose when to share results dropdown and select the number of days. Adding a delay gives you or your staff time to review the results and update the interpretations if needed.
What your patient sees
Once you send the results interpretation to your patient, they’ll receive an email notification with a link to view their results in their Fullscript account.
When your patient looks at their interpretation, they'll find:
- Your interpretation summary.
- A single bar graph highlighting the number of optimal, suboptimal, and out of range biomarkers.
- Any individual biomarkers you flagged in the interpretation.
- The full list of results for the biomarkers tested.
Patients can click into any biomarker in the interpretation to find information on the biomarker itself. Any changes you made to the suggested text will be reflected.
Patients can also access the original blood lab results with the Download button on the right side of their interpretation.
Exporting interpretations
Export your lab interpretations and upload them to your EHR. This helps you share reports with patients while preserving biomarker context. Each interpretation PDF includes a QR code patients can use to access interactive insights about their test results.
To export a lab interpretation:
- Click Labs, then Orders, in the left-hand navigation.
- Search for the patient whose results you’d like to export and click their order.
- On the Test details page, click View results.
- Click Download results.
- Select Interpretation of results. The PDF file will be saved to your downloads folder.
Uploading external lab results
You can upload external lab results to a patient’s profile to include supported biomarkers in their trend history alongside results from labs ordered through Fullscript.
When uploading external results:
- Supported files: Upload a PDF, JPEG, or PNG file, then review and confirm the extracted biomarker values before saving.
- Biomarker trends: Supported biomarkers are added to the patient's trend history, even if the test was performed at an outside lab.
- Reference ranges: Uploaded results use the reference ranges provided by the original laboratory. Fullscript’s optimal ranges don’t apply to manually uploaded results. Because ranges can vary between laboratories, review results and trends in the context of each lab’s reported ranges.
- Lab interpretations: Lab interpretations and AI-generated summaries aren’t available for manually uploaded results. These features are only available for supported Quest Diagnostics, Access Medical Laboratories (AML), and Access Labcorp Draw tests ordered through Fullscript.