Extract data from physician orders and lab requisitions
Unstract reads physician orders and lab requisitions as they arrive, faxed, scanned or filled in by hand, and posts each order with its tests, provider and insurance to your EHR or practice management system.
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{ "ordering_provider": "Grace Adeyemi, MD", "npi": "1730496825", "patient": "Halvorsen, Tomas", "date_of_birth": "09/23/1971", "payer": "Brightwater Health Plan", "member_id": "BWH552091884", "specimen": "Blood", "collection_date": "11/03/2026", "tests_ordered": "CBC, CMP, HbA1c, Lipid panel", "fasting": "Yes", "icd10_codes": "E11.9, E78.5", "confidence": 0.95}
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Orders reach you from every office in its own format
A few referring offices send orders through a portal. The rest come off the fax machine looking like this.
An MRI order faxed twice before it reached the right desk
Tests ticked in pen, one crossed out and initialled
Your requisition, a reference lab's form and a toxicology submission form
The order, visit notes, prior results and the card in one fax
A home health order with its visit plan on page two
Patient access staff retype every order and requisition into the scheduling and lab screens, and a test keyed against the wrong patient or payer comes back as a redraw, a cancelled visit or an unpaid claim.
Unstract reads each physician order and requisition, pulls the provider, patient, insurance and test fields you name, checks them against each other, and posts the order to your EHR or practice management system for your staff to schedule.
Read the order, check the requisition, start the authorization
LLMWhisperer reads the order, Document Studio returns the order record with its checks, and Flow carries it into prior authorization. You can start with any one of the three, on one fax folder.
Read physician orders with every ticked test kept beside its name
A lab requisition packs dozens of small checkboxes into a grid, and a faxed imaging or therapy order adds a handwritten diagnosis and a signature that runs over the line. For order entry OCR, the costly mistake is a tick read against the neighbouring test. LLMWhisperer keeps the layout, so each mark stays with its own test and the ordering provider's NPI never turns into the copy-to provider's. It reports marked and blank boxes alike, and reads orders that were scanned, faxed or photographed.
Pass the text to an LLM you already use, or feed it into a prior authorization run.
Learn more about LLMWhispererTurn every physician order and lab requisition into one order record
Describe the order record once: ordering provider and NPI, patient, payer and member ID, the tests or service ordered, specimen type and collection time, the diagnosis as written with any printed ICD-10 codes, fasting status and the signature. Lab requisition form data extraction then returns the same JSON from your own requisition, a reference lab's form or a toxicology submission form. Checks you set travel with each record: the NPI has ten digits, the member ID matches the insurance card in the fax, a fasting test carries a fasting answer, and the order is signed and dated.
Deploy it as an API behind your order portal, or as an ETL pipeline over the folder where your fax server drops incoming orders.
Learn more about Document StudioCarry each physician order into prior authorization before it is booked
Describe your physician orders, the payers they go to and the services that need approval, in plain language, and Flow's agents build the prior authorization workflow from that description. You approve the workflow, and each order then runs through it the same way: received by fax or portal, read, checked against the payer's rules for that service, sent with its supporting pages, and tracked until the payer replies, with approvals posted to your EHR or practice management system.
An order that misses the payer's criteria, lacks documentation or is marked urgent stops for a prior authorization coordinator or nurse reviewer, with the reason attached. Unstract reads the order. It does not approve, schedule or perform it, and it does not judge medical necessity. The payer and your clinicians make those calls.
Learn more about FlowExtract a stack of lab requisitions today. Plan the prior authorization run with us.
Start for free with a folder of faxed orders. A run that posts orders to your EHR or practice management system starts with a consultation.
Physician orders, lab requisitions and the forms faxed with them
Documents
- Lab requisition forms
- Toxicology submission forms
- Imaging orders
- Physical and occupational therapy orders
- Durable medical equipment (DME) orders
- Home health orders
- Pathology requisitions
- Infusion orders
- Referral orders
- Standing orders
- Chain-of-custody forms
- Any other order or requisition your practice receives
Fields captured
Processes these orders feed
Built for the teams who receive orders and requisitions
Orders read off the fax before the patient calls to book, with the tests, payer and member ID already filled in.
One way of reading orders from every referring office, and fewer appointments lost to a missing signature or diagnosis.
Outpatient lab and imaging orders matched to the right patient and payer before the patient reaches the registration desk.
Therapy, DME and home health orders read with the same care as a lab requisition, whichever office sent them.
Less order entry, cleaner requisitions
Protected as PHI from the moment the order arrives
A physician order puts a patient's name, date of birth and member ID next to the tests ordered and the diagnosis behind them. Read together, they show who the patient is and what their doctor is looking for, and a drug screen or an HIV test on a requisition is among the most sensitive lines in any record.
- Encrypted in transit and at rest.
- Orders and requisitions are never used to train models.
- Access by role, location and order type, with every corrected field recorded against the order.
- Processed orders are deleted on the retention schedule your organization sets.
- Self-hosted deployment for health systems and labs that keep PHI inside their own network.
What patient access and lab intake teams ask first
Yes. LLMWhisperer reads printed lab reports and handwritten requisitions alike. On the order side, lab order data extraction returns the tests ticked, the specimen, the collection time, the ordering provider and the patient's insurance, so the order is entered before the sample is drawn.
The fax lands in a folder or inbox, LLMWhisperer reads each page with its layout and checkboxes, and Document Studio returns the order as JSON with your checks applied. Your staff confirm flagged fields instead of typing the whole order.
At the front of them. Document Studio runs as an API your order portal calls or as an ETL pipeline over the fax folder. Flow, the third option, runs the order through prior authorization and posts results to your EHR or practice management system.
Yes. Toxicology requisition form OCR returns the specimen ID, the panel requested, the collection date and time, the collector's name and the donor's signature, and the custody block comes back field by field, with blank boxes reported as blank.
Yes. You describe the fields for each order type once, so an MRI order, a physical therapy referral, a wheelchair order and a home health plan of care each come back in their own schema.
No. Unstract reads the order and checks it against the rest of the fax, such as the member ID against the insurance card. Your staff schedule the order, the lab performs it, and medical necessity stays with the payer and your clinicians.
The order stops in a review queue. Staff see the field and the spot on the page it came from, correct or confirm it, and the change is recorded against the order. Clear orders keep moving.
Yes. The portal posts a requisition to the endpoint for that order type, and the order record comes back as JSON with flagged fields marked for review.
Unstract is SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA compliant. Orders are encrypted in transit and at rest, never used to train models, and kept only as long as your retention schedule allows. Health systems and labs can self-host. See the Trust Center for the full list of controls.
A patient access lead can start for free and extract a folder of requisitions the same day. For the prior authorization run, we build it with your team in a consultation around your order types, your payers and your EHR or practice management system.
Bring a day of faxed orders to the consultation
Lab requisitions, imaging and therapy orders, a toxicology form or two, and the insurance cards faxed with them. We extract them in the session and show you each field that would have gone to review.