The laboratory turns a doctor's order into a verified analyte value on the medical record. The workspace is built for specimen integrity: the right tube, drawn under the right preparation conditions, run and verified before anything is released to a clinician.
Requests route in automatically when the doctor signs, carrying their STAT or Routine priority. Wait timers age live — amber at 20 minutes, red at 40.
Fasting windows, anticoagulant notes and STAT handling are generated from the request itself — and must be acknowledged, with the reviewer stamped, before collection unlocks.
Every test row names its tube by colour, additive and volume — lavender EDTA, gold serum, grey fluoride — so the collector never guesses. Tick each tube as it's drawn and labelled.
Analytes come from the test master record with reference ranges and critical limits. Flags resolve automatically — Critical, High, Low, Normal — in strict precedence.
Verification is blocked until every in-house test has values. Release files the report to the record, prints it, and alerts the ordering doctor wherever values are out of range.
Not-taken requests record their reason, bill nothing and can be reopened. Scheduled requests wait outside the live queue. Recollects surface early in the sort.
One master record per test — specimen, container, method, turnaround, price, preparation guidance and the full analyte definition. Read-only at the bench, edited by Admin.
Reference ranges flag the report; critical limits flag the doctor — with the thresholds and the read-back instruction stated on screen.
Each value flags live against its reference range — red border high, blue border low
A running tally: "{n} outside reference range — the doctor is alerted when the report is released"
Critical thresholds carry their own action notes — potassium above 6.5, glucose below 2.5, troponin T above 52, INR above 5
A laboratory note travels on the released report — sample condition, repeat runs, context the doctor needs
One report per test: specimen, timings, method, verifier and every flagged analyte
The ordering doctor is alerted on release wherever values are out of range
Flags carry through unchanged — entry grid, completed-tests table, patient record, printed report
"Electronically verified report" — stamped with who verified it, and when
Two assistants — one at the bench, one in the report viewer — and both close with the same line: final interpretation remains with the treating clinician.
Explain this test, normal values, critical alerts with read-back instructions, suggested additional investigations — all read from the test master record, not invented.
Trend analysis against prior reports, abnormal findings with direction, and clinical interpretation phrased as "consider correlating" — never as a conclusion.
A plain-language explanation branching on severity, with a copy-for-patient action — and follow-up suggestions footed "Suggestions only — not orders."
Order, preparation check, draw, result, release — with the doctor alerted on the way.