Easy is Good
A fully integrated lab orders and results interface with clinical workflow that supports ask-on-entry, automatic send, and automatic results checking. Results are auto-matched to patients, and when clearing the result queue, staff can link a lab with abnormal results to a provider notification.
Would a graph of the patient's lab results be a helpful visual? Just filter down to the desired lab, right click, and you got it.
Regardles of lab source, your result data is formatted into a common report layout for consistency. Of course, the original lab's pdf report is only a mouse-click away ...