Laboratory information system · Ghana
Open the box on Monday. Report on Monday.
LAVABMS Laboratory runs the specimen from the order to the printed report — bench worklist, results, critical values, quality control and the analyser interface. It ships with a 117-test catalogue, so the thing that usually stalls a laboratory installation is already done.
The month of typing, already done
Install-day catalogueThe catalogue is what stalls a laboratory installation. Four hundred tests, their tubes, units, panels and reference bands, typed one form at a time, is somebody's month — and the project waits for it.
LAVABMS Laboratory ships with a full Ghanaian catalogue: full blood count and its analytes, urea and electrolytes, liver and lipid profiles, malaria, Widal, sickling and haemoglobin electrophoresis, HIV, hepatitis, cultures and sensitivities, stool and urine microscopy. One button loads it, and the screen shows you exactly what it would write before it writes anything.
- Loads117 tests and 96 reference bands
- PreviewsEvery row, before a single one is saved
- Re-importsAs an edit, not a duplicate
- MarksEvery shipped range VERIFY, for your laboratory to sign off
Built around the bench
The specimen's journeyMost of the people who open this app have a rack in their other hand.
Four tests on one patient is one visit to one arm. The queue counts people to draw, so the badge matches what the phlebotomist actually has to do.
A scan bar sits on every screen, always focused. Scan a tube from anywhere in the application and the specimen is found — no clicking into a search box first.
Gloved hands, a screen a metre away. Rows, type and targets grow — and nothing moves. Same columns, same order, same page. A layout that rearranges itself is one people re-learn every time.
A specimen cannot be rejected without a reason, because the person who has to re-draw needs to know what went wrong before walking back to the patient.
A critical value is not a colour
Results that get acted onA potassium of 7.2 highlighted in red on a screen nobody is looking at is not a safety system. Critical results go onto their own list and stay there until somebody acknowledges them.
And an acknowledgement needs a sentence: what was done, and who was told. A click with no note is refused. The record you can defend afterwards is the one that says the doctor was telephoned at ten past four, not the one that says a box was ticked.
- FlagsAgainst the band in force when the result was reported
- HoldsOn a working list, not in a colour
- RequiresA written action to clear, not a click
- PrintsThe range from the result itself, never looked up later
Quality control before the first patient
Is the instrument fit to report?Controls are run and charted against their expected mean and spread, with the Westgard rules applied as the run is entered — so a rejection is visible at the bench, not in a monthly review.
The badge counts controls not yet run today plus rejections nobody has written a sentence about. Both go down when the work is done, which is what makes a number worth believing.
- ChartsLevey-Jennings, per lot and level
- Applies1-3s, 2-2s and R-4s as the run is entered
- TracksControl lots with target, spread and expiry
- RefusesA lot whose units do not match the test's
Talk to the machines
Analyser interfaceThe failure that costs a laboratory most is the one that looks like success.
Analysers send results in over ASTM, into a queue the bench releases from. No transcribing a number off a printout into a screen.
A machine that is connected and sending tests the software cannot match looks exactly like one that is working. The analyser list shows how many channels are unmapped, so the silent half of the failure is visible.
A machine silent for five days and a machine talking but not understood need opposite actions. The list answers which one you have before you start looking.
Machine results wait in a queue to be released. The instrument proposes; a person still decides what leaves the building.
The sheet that leaves the building
ReportingTwo audiences, two reports — not one report with columns hidden.
Chosen deliberately, because they are different documents for different readers.
Printed before everything is resulted, it names what is still to come rather than looking complete.
One analyte for one patient across visits — is the potassium coming down — without reading five separate reports side by side.
Who sends you work, and how much. The list a laboratory needs when it decides where to spend a visit.
Standalone, or beside the clinic
How it is boughtIt does not require the hospital, and it is better with it.
A diagnostic centre
Walk-in and referred patients, counter orders, billing, reports and referrer tracking. The laboratory sells without a hospital attached.
Beside LAVABMS Hospital
A test requested inside a consultation is on the bench worklist immediately and the result lands back on the patient's chart. It is billed once, on the visit — never twice.
Online, or on your own server
Run it in the building so the bench keeps working when the line drops, or hosted and reachable from anywhere.
Built for how a laboratory is staffed
The person who receives the tube often results it, and in a small laboratory also took the payment. One sidebar, filtered by what each person is allowed to do.
Get in touch
Bring us your test menu.
Tell us what you run, on which analysers, and whether you take referred work. We will show you your own catalogue loaded, not a generic demo.
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