Lab software compared with Word and Excel
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.
What Word and Excel do well
Worth reading first. If these three things are what your lab depends on, the rest of this page may not change your mind.
- Any layout you can imagine. A page in Word is a blank sheet, and a pathologist who wants a table in a particular place can put it there in five minutes.
- Everyone in the lab already knows how to use them, so there is nothing to learn and nothing to roll out.
- They work with no internet, no subscription and no account, on a machine you already paid for.
Side by side
Scroll the table sideways on a phone; the first column stays put. The rows marked not available are the ones where this system is the worse choice.
| What you are comparing | Word and Excel | This system |
|---|---|---|
| Any layout you can draw | Yes, the page is a blank sheet | Not availableThe template editor gives you the letterhead, the patient fields, the result columns, the font size, the margins, two signatories and the footer lines, on A4 or Letter. It is a set of switches, not an empty page. |
| Works with no internet | Always | Not availableRegistration, result entry and reports all need a connection. A phone hotspot covers a power cut; a day with neither is a day on paper. |
| Report formats to start from | Whatever you have typed before, in whichever file you can find | 157 formats install into your catalogue in one click, with their parameters, units and ranges |
| Reference ranges | Typed into the template, and edited per patient by hand | Sex-specific reference ranges ship where they apply; add age bands per test |
| High, low and critical flags | The person typing decides by eye | Computed from the range that matches the patient, with critical limits held separately |
| Calculated values | A spreadsheet formula, if someone built one and nobody broke it | 26 shipped parameters compute themselves, including ones that read the patient’s age and sex |
| The same patient coming back | A new file, and a new spelling of the name | One patient record with the whole order history behind it |
| Case and report numbers | Someone remembers the last one | Issued by one atomic statement, so there are no gaps and no duplicates |
| Sign-off before a report goes out | The file’s last-modified date | Draft, verify, approve and release, each a separate permission recorded with the person and the time |
| Who changed what, after the fact | Track changes, if it was switched on | An append-only audit trail the application offers no way to edit |
| Sending the report | Attach the file to an email or a chat by hand, each time | Email on every plan, WhatsApp and SMS on paid plans, with a log of what went where |
| A patient checking a report is genuine | They telephone the lab and someone looks for the file | The QR code on the report opens a verification page that names the issuing laboratory |
| Billing | A receipt book, or a second spreadsheet that does not agree with the first | The bill comes off the registration screen as A4, A5 or a 3-inch thermal roll |
| What it costs | Already paid for, plus the hours spent retyping | Free for one branch; paid plans from ₹999 a month plus GST, billed monthly |
Switching, step by step
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Then what
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Pricing
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