Track every sample, check results before release, alert a doctor about critical values, and block results from an analyser that failed QC.
Laboratory software for a hospital lab. Track every sample, check and release results, and make sure a dangerous result reaches a doctor. Daily quality control stops results from a failed analyser going out.
Lab technicians, who collect and run samples. Pathologists and lab managers, who check and release results. Doctors and nurses, who must hear about a critical result fast.
Nobody can say if a sample was collected, received or is still waiting.
A dangerous potassium value is printed on a report that nobody opens for hours.
The daily control run is written in a register, and a failed run does not stop anything.
A result goes out before the right person has checked it.
Track each sample from pending to collected, in process, resulted, verified and delivered. Each step records the time and who did it.
Reject a sample with a reason. Redraw it as a new sample, linked to the one it replaces.
Critical results are listed first. Every value sits next to its normal range and its critical range. Only authorised staff can verify; nurses cannot.
When a critical result is verified, an alert is raised by itself. It goes to the treating doctor first, and moves to the next person if nobody acknowledges in time.
Log who was called, who received the call, when, and whether the value was read back. Print the critical value register as a PDF.
Record control runs and see them on a Levey-Jennings chart with Westgard rule checks. Record the root cause and fix. See each analyser and its open problems on one screen.
If a control run breaks a Westgard rule set to block, that analyser is locked. Results from that analyser cannot be released until the lab records the fix and lifts the lock. The screen shows why a result is blocked. The lock covers results that come in from a connected analyser; results typed in by hand are not linked to an analyser.
Every module works on the same patients, admissions and beds. Nothing is typed twice. See the related modules:
When a result with a critical value is verified, the system raises an alert by itself. It goes to the treating doctor first. If nobody acknowledges it in time, it moves to the next person on the list. Staff then log the phone call and the read-back.
Only staff with the right permission, such as the lab manager or a doctor. Nurses can view results but cannot verify them.
You record each control run. The system plots it on a Levey-Jennings chart, checks the Westgard rules, and asks for the root cause and the fix when a rule is broken.
Yes. Reject it with a reason, then redraw it. The new sample gets its own number and stays linked to the old one.