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A laboratory information system exists to answer two questions without anyone walking to the bench: where is this sample, and why is it late? Barcodes give each tube an identity that does not depend on handwriting, and timestamped state changes turn turnaround time from a complaint into a number you can act on.
Every tube carries an accession barcode from registration. "Which sample is this?" stops being answered from memory, and mislabelling — the most consequential error in a lab — becomes far harder.
Registered, collected, received, in progress, resulted, verified, dispatched. Each transition is recorded, so the counter can answer a patient without phoning the bench.
Median and outliers by test, so you can promise a referring doctor a time and keep it. Drift shows up before complaints do.
Control runs recorded against each analyser, with alerts when results move outside acceptable limits — before a drifting machine reaches a patient's report.
Numeric fields with units and reference ranges, narrative fields for histopathology and imaging, and calculated fields for panels that derive values.
Volume by test and by referrer, turnaround trends, and revenue — the numbers you would otherwise assemble by hand at month end.
An LIS is configured around your own tests, analysers and workflow, so a generic demo would show you someone else's laboratory. We walk through it with your test list instead.
PathLab shares the same foundation and is open right now — registration, results against reference ranges, verification and reporting. It is the fastest way to judge whether the way we build software suits you.
PathLab covers the commercial side of a lab — registration, billing, results and reporting. The LIS module concentrates on the sample itself: barcodes, state tracking, turnaround time and quality control. Many labs run both; smaller labs often start with PathLab alone.
For barcode tracking, yes — an ordinary thermal label printer is enough. The rest of the system works without one, but sample identity is where most lab errors begin, so barcodes are worth the small cost.
Because it is a symptom you can act on. When it drifts, the cause is usually specific — samples waiting for a batch, one analyser as a bottleneck, or results entered but not verified. You cannot see any of that from a register.
Not a public one. The LIS is configured to each laboratory's own tests and workflow, so we arrange a walkthrough on request. PathLab, which shares much of the same foundation, has an open demo you can try immediately.
The software has no licence fee. You pay only for the VPS hosting that runs your private instance, from $20 per month for lab systems.
New to the subject? Read our guide: What is a laboratory information system?