Lab testing goes far beyond simply identifying diseases. It’s about understanding the root causes of symptoms, tracking how treatments are progressing, and ensuring every step in the healing journey is supported by data. The labs you order—from hormonal panels to gut health testing to advanced metabolic screens—are essential to tailoring individualized care plans and achieving long-lasting results for your patients.
However, in a busy practice, managing lab results can often become a logistical nightmare. Sorting through piles of paper reports, manually inputting data into charts, and trying to piece together a patient's entire clinical picture from disparate lab results can be frustrating—and error-prone.
This is why direct lab integrations are critical in optimizing patient care - these integrations help you streamline your workflow, ensure data accuracy, and offer a unified view of each patient’s progress—all while keeping your focus where it belongs: on treating your patients.
By seamlessly incorporating lab results into your EMR system, you no longer have to chase down reports or manually track trends. Instead, you can focus on interpreting those results in real-time and using them to adjust care plans, recommend lifestyle changes, or evaluate the effectiveness of ongoing treatments.
That’s why OptiMantra is designed to integrate directly with labs, streamlining the entire process from ordering to tracking. Here's a deeper look at how lab integrations in OptiMantra are transforming the way you manage patient data and care.
Why Direct Lab Integrations Matter
- Speed & Efficiency
No more duplicate data entry. No more toggling between lab portals and patient charts. When lab ordering and results are built directly into your EMR, your team saves hours each week—and patients get answers faster. - Clinical Accuracy
Manual uploads mean higher risk of transcription errors. Direct integrations pull in results exactly as they were processed, preserving accuracy and making it easy to compare values over time. - Total Clarity
Lab interpretation is a contextual interpretation—and that’s hard to do if results are scattered across PDFs and paper files. A unified, visual interface helps you connect the dots between biomarkers, protocols, and outcomes.
OptiMantra’s Complete Lab Feature Suite - The Best Lab Integrations
Whether you’re a solo practitioner or running a multi-location wellness clinic, OptiMantra gives you the tools to manage labs seamlessly inside the platform—with clinical depth and intuitive design.
Here’s what’s included:
1. Hundreds of Lab and Diagnostic Integrations—Built In
Order labs directly from your EMR to major national and specialty labs including:
- Labcorp
- Quest Diagnostics
- Vibrant America
- ZRT
- Genova
- Access Medical
- Rupa Health …and more.
No separate portals. No extra steps. Just connect your account, select the tests you need and order them directly from the patient chart.
2. Custom Lab Ordering Templates
Stop reinventing the wheel. With OptiMantra, you can:
- Create your own requisition templates for common test panels (e.g., thyroid panel, GI map, micronutrients)
- Add these templates to specific visit types or care protocols
- Order multiple labs with just a few clicks
This is especially useful for integrative and functional practices where comprehensive panels are used repeatedly across programs.
3. Tag Critical Lab Results to Your Dashboard
Want to keep an eye on a patient’s hs-CRP, estradiol, or ferritin levels?
In OptiMantra, you can pin specific test results to your dashboard to monitor over time. This allows for:
- Faster follow-up
- Easier prioritization
- Smarter care plan adjustments
It’s like having your clinical radar tuned in—without having to dig through charts.
4. Set Your Own Functional Reference Ranges
Medicine isn't about “normal”—it’s about optimal. With OptiMantra, you can:
- Override conventional reference ranges
- Set your own target ranges for key biomarkers
- Highlight values that are “in range” but still suboptimal
This supports more accurate, individualized treatment and improves patient education.
5. Track Trends Longitudinally
OptiMantra turns your lab data into meaningful insight with:
- Graphical visualizations of lab trends over time
- Side-by-side comparisons between visits
- Timeline tracking across protocols
Use this to evaluate treatment impact, monitor progress, or pivot when needed. For example:
“After 3 months on adrenal support, your DHEA is up, and cortisol is back in balance.”
That’s the power of data-driven transformation.
6. Automated Tasks and Reminders
Labs often have to be drawn every few weeks or months - to ensure your patients stay on track with their testing and appointments, set up auto-reminders for you, and your patients, in OptiMantra for follow-ups.
For example:
- Set auto-reminders for patients to schedule their next appointment.
- Remind patients to get their labs drawn at the right time, ensuring they don’t miss important testing.
These automated reminders can be automatically sent via email through our task functionality - so we notify both you and the patient. Easily track which tasks have been completed, reducing the risk of missed appointments or delayed lab tests.
By keeping everything within the same platform, you ensure your team and patients are always on the same page—no missed steps in the care process.
7. Import Non-Integrated Lab Results—Directly to the Chart
Too early to electronically integrate labs? Or working with a very regional laboratory that’s not connected? Even if a lab isn’t integrated, you’re covered.
OptiMantra allows you to:
- Upload external lab PDFs or scanned reports - and annotate on them
- Assign them to the correct patient and encounter
- View everything in one unified chart
No more hunting through folders or disconnected files—everything lives where it should: inside the EMR.
8. Built for Integrative, Holistic, and Functional Care
What sets OptiMantra apart isn’t just the tech—it’s the philosophy behind it.
Our lab tools are designed specifically for providers who:
- Treat complex, multi-system cases
- Offer programs rooted in functional diagnostics
- Need deep insight—not surface-level snapshots
- Want a system that connects lab data to outcomes, protocols, and real transformation
Whether you're tracking stool analysis, food sensitivity, neurotransmitters, or hormones, OptiMantra makes it easy to capture the full clinical picture.
TL;DR: OptiMantra Labs at a Glance
- Feature: Direct integrations with 100s of labs
- Benefit: One-click ordering, seamless results
- Feature: Custom ordering templates
- Benefit: Order faster and more consistently
- Feature: Track top lab values on dashboard
- Benefit: Stay on top of what matters most
- Feature: Set your own functional reference ranges
- Benefit: Align labs with your philosophy
- Feature: Graph trends over time
- Benefit: Evaluate treatment impact at a glance
- Feature: Upload external labs into the chart
- Benefit: Keep all results in one place
Ready to Upgrade How You Manage Labs?
Lab workflows don’t have to be clunky, disconnected, or overwhelming.
With OptiMantra, you can:
- Spend less time managing tests
- Provide more data-informed care
- Track results the way you practice—integrative, functional, and patient-centered
Listen to what Gina R., a practice owner and OptiMantra customer, had to say about OptiMantra’s integrated labs,
“After searching for a suitable EMR, I was grateful to come across Optimantra! Some of the key features that I love are the integrations with FullScript and Rupa Labs. As functional medicine, telehealth provider, these two features alone make the communication with my clients efficient and effective.”
Let’s walk through how labs work in OptiMantra. Schedule a quick demo today.
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A Quick Caveat About Lab Integration
While OptiMantra integrates with hundreds of lab companies, it's important to note that labs may require a minimum order thresholds for full automatic integration - These typically include factors like volume, partnership agreements, or other logistical considerations.
In cases where automatic integration isn’t possible, lab requisitions can still be generated in OptiMantra and sent directly to patients; and results can still be manually uploaded or sent via fax note into the system. This ensures you can continue tracking patient outcomes seamlessly, even if the lab integration isn’t fully automated yet.
We’re committed to helping you navigate this process smoothly, and our support team is always here to assist in setting up the best solution for your practice.
