Most small labs in India still type reports in Word and keep the register in Excel, and it works: the layout is exactly what the pathologist wants and nobody needs training. What it cannot do is check itself. Nothing tells you a haemoglobin is below the range for a woman, nothing stops two patients getting the same case number, and nothing proves who changed a value after it was printed. Here is the trade, in both directions.
14 rows compared, 2 of them lost, and an eight-step manual checklist.
Installed lab software is the default for a reason: it is fast, it runs when the line is down, and the data sits on a machine in the room. The costs show up later, when the lab opens a second branch, when the reporting computer dies, or when the owner wants to see the day’s collections from somewhere else. This page is about where a hosted system wins, and where it plainly does not.
14 rows compared, 2 of them lost, and an eight-step manual checklist.
There are several good hosted lab systems sold in India, and if one of them fits your lab you should buy it. This page is about the differences that are easy to check rather than the ones you have to take on trust: what the format library actually contains, what the analyser wording really means, what a plan costs, and which modules are simply missing here.
14 rows compared, 4 of them lost, and an eight-step manual checklist.