Provider reported that a beckman remisol instrument is receiving identical specimen id numbers, but the patients are different.The later patient would have no orders attached.Investigation showed that there was no malfunction of the instrument manager software.Further investigation showed and was confirmed by the provider that the vista lis was configured incorrectly.There was no report of patient harm for this instance, but data innovations did not receive any further information about potential patient impact from other orders/results which occurred since the vista lis was misconfigured.
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