The Virginia Department of Health COVID-19 POC portal allows health care professionals, who are unable to report electronically via HL7 or flat file, the ability to submit rapid COVID-19 test results through this portal to meet the COVID-19 reporting requirements.

• Positive SARS-CoV-2 tests (both PCR and Antigen) should be reported by directors of laboratories and other entities that hold Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) Certificates of Waiver.
  • The report must be submitted electronically within three days of identification using either VDH’s available portal (here) for laboratory reporting or electronic laboratory reporting.
  • Negative SARS-CoV-2 test results are no longer required to be reported.
• Physicians and directors of medical facilities should submit reports to the Confidential Morbidity Report Portal (Epi-1) or via electronic case reporting to meet COVID-19 reporting requirements for clinical reporting. *If physicians or directors of medical facilities perform tests and hold a CLIA Certificate of Waiver, it is sufficient to report only to the POC portal with all required data elements. *

Point of Care testing is medical diagnostic testing conducted outside of a traditional laboratory setting that occurs at the time and place of patient care (i.e., physician’s office, pharmacy, nursing home, etc.).

Facilities/Providers should report positive SARS-CoV-2 POC test results (both PCR and Antigens) through the online portal within 3 days of receiving a result. You should only report via this portal if you are unable to report electronically via HL7 or flat file to VDH. Testing sites that perform COVID-19 surveillance testing on de-identified samples, regardless of their CLIA status, should not report the results of their surveillance testing to local, state, territorial, or tribal health departments. If at any time a facility intends to report a patient-specific test result, it must first obtain a CLIA certificate and meet all requirements to perform testing.

Facilities/Providers utilizing POC testing, who are unable to report via HL7 or flat file to VDH, are requested to report individual results using the VDH COVID-19 POC reporting portal. To ensure proper access and reporting via this portal…

• A single, main point of contact for each facility/provider should create a user account.
• This user will register your POC facility for online reporting via the Facility/Practice Registration page. Each facility needs to be registered once.
• After successfully registering your facility, you will receive a registration confirmation.
• VDH team will review your request for access to the COVID-19 POC portal for test result submission. You will receive an email notification that access has been granted to the online portal. Access to the online portal may take 2-3 days.
• Once access has been granted, the main point of contact will be able to add additional facilities and contacts that will assist in data entry of POC results.
• The Bulk upload and multi facility registration functionalities are now available through the portal. For POC users to have access to more than one facility and/or the bulk upload feature, the main point of contact must email POCReporting@vdh.virginia.gov with their request. Please note that each user's current role will apply to all facilities to which they have access.