History of Dowites '83 Lab

The Dow Medical College class of 1983 decided to commemorate their Twenty Fifth Graduation Anniversary by donating funds to Dow University of Medical Sciences as a token of appreciation for the excellent and most economical medical education provided to them by their alma mater. The class members undertook the project of helping out in the construction of a new Laboratory at the Civil Hospital Karachi. After discussions with the Hospital Administration in terms of their needs; it was decided that the Class of 83 would construct a Clinical Laboratory Complex at Civil Hospital. This idea came to fruition at a large gathering of the class fellows at a gathering arranged by Dr. Saeed Quraishy in December 2005.

Challenges & Needs

For pathological Laboratories, the efficiency is not only a matter of life and death when it comes to the patients, but also a matter of streamlining the operations and maintaining them at low cost. Optimal management in healthcare like any other industry is done by constantly increasing efficiency and reducing costs. Each year, laboratories are experiencing growth in the number of samples being processed, which in turn creates an additional amount of stress for maintaining efficiency and lowering costs. However in order to stay competent, professional and for providing excellent customer service labs must be aligned to the new technologies. The majority of laboratories are realizing the necessity to automate using Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). Dowites’ 83 Lab is also one of the labs that did realize these challenges and needs early on.

Solution: EfroLMS, It’s all about Efficiency
Dowites’ 83 Lab came across various vendors and explored many LMS solutions, but nothing seemed to suit their requirements. After considering several solutions EfroLMS was declared as most advanced and user-friendly as compared to other available options, mainly because EfroLMS had all the functionalities they needed. It is quite a mature system, already in use by LabTest and Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences, Sindh, besides other customers. Furthermore, EfroLMS was selected for few major reasons, including:

 100 percent Microsoft platform
 User Friendly
 Graphical User Interface
 Proven track record
 Strong customer references
 Vastly experienced and skillful team with good company repute
 Availability of strong implementation methodology
 Excellent support & analytical reporting
 Excellent Security

Why EfroLMS

EfroLMS Laboratory & Blood Bank Management System is a comprehensive software system designed specifically for the medical testing laboratories. The major strength of the EfroLMS is the integration that it provides for a multi-user environment to connect all the functions in a typical lab such as departments, stores, patient & test registration (front desk) etc. This results in faster job processing and quicker response to patients, reliable reporting and timely information for the management. EfroLMS possesses the capacity to handle large amounts of transactions, generates customized reports and warning indicators, provides option to directly connect to the latest computerized testing machines and is flexible to cater to further system customizations. EfroLMS is a definite requirement of all the laboratories aspiring to grow with a greater level of efficiency, information transparency and control in their operations.

Standard Features

 Laboratory Module

 Departments (Including Hematology, Biochemistry, Serology, Urinalysis, Parasitology, Coagulation, Urinary Biochemistry, Histo pathology, Cytology, Microbiology, Immuno Chemistry, Radiology, Sonology)
 Test (Test info, expected time of result, normal ranges etc)
 Test Profile (Test components etc)
 Patient Type (Charity, cash, credit card etc)
 Panel Company
 Out Station Test info
 Referral Doctors info
 Doctors & Pathologists info
 Working Shifts (Morning, Evening, Night)
 Department Group
 Doctor Test Mapping (X-Ray & Ultrasound)
 Abnormal Result Text
 Test Booking for patients
 Automatic Work sheet generation
 Result Entry
 Formula Generator for calculated result values
 Direct data fetching from Test equipment to Software
 Different types of summarized reports on the basis of different criteria (Date wise, Test wise, Department wise etc)
 Log Manager to maintain log of each entry

 Blood Bank Module

 Blood Groups (A+,B+ etc)
 Blood Components (Plasma, Platelets etc)
 Patient Registration
 Searching for Registered Patients
 Maintains History for Patients
 Donor Registration
 Searching for Registered Donors
 Maintains History for Donors
 Donor Primary Screening
 Donor Secondary Screening
 Breaking of Blood into Components
 Maintains Blood Stock group wise & component wise
 Blood Expiry Setups
 Auto generate available Blood List by using FIFO & LIFO
 Pop up for expired and near to expire blood
 Log Manager to maintain log of each entry

 Inventory Module

 Kit Categorization on the basis of their attributes
 Maintains Red alert & reorders levels of different kits
 Maintains Vendor/Supplier
 Vendor/Supplier Categorization
 Purchase Order for red alerted items
 Stock Receiving from Supplier against Purchase Order
 Stock Receiving from Supplier with out Purchase Order
 Stock Return To Supplier
 Requisitions for kits from departments
 Kit Issuance to department
 Issuance Return from department
 Stock Adjustment (Add In Stock)
 Stock Adjustment (Less In Stock)
 Real-Time Stock Updating
 Stock Valuation on the basis of Weighted Average/FIFO/Moving Average
 Stock Position reports
 Monthly consumption reports department wise/item wise
 Slow Moving & Non Moving Items report
 Purchase Audit Trial Date wise/Supplier wise
 Issuance Audit Trial Date wise/Supplier wise
 Purchase Summary Date wise/Supplier wise
 Issuance Summary Date wise/Department wise
 Purchase/Issuance MTD & YTD Reports
 Stock Ledger
 Log Manager to maintain log of each entry

Security

EfroLMS is completely integrated with a specially designed security mechanism. This security mechanism is used to protect the corporate data against any unauthorized access/intervention. There are different levels of security, and even then authorized ones will only be able to do only what they are authorized to do and nothing more. A data-entry operator, for example, will not be able to see a report, which is not meant for his designation.

Equipments & Testing Volume

Plenty of latest laboratory equipments are interfaced with EfroLMS helping out processing the huge amount of tests. List of equipments those are interfaced with EfroLMS along with their manufacturers is given below:

Equipments Manufacturers
K4500 Sysmex
Dimension Hoorapharma
CA500 Sysmex
Architect Abbot
xt 2000i Sysmex
PCR2000rt Roche
Immulite Hoorapharma
CA1500 Sysmex
Modular P800 Roche
XE-5000 Sysmex
Cobas u 411 Roche
Nova-16 CRT Nova
Roller 20 Alifax

On average, each month, well over 120,000 tests are performed in the laboratory, data of which is directly fed into the EfroLMS application through machine interfacing which has been provided by EfroTech as a special service to this charitable lab. This leads to over 1,500,000 diagnostic tests being performed and tabulated each year through this robust EfroLMS system.

Benefits

 Accuracy, fewer human errors in test reporting
 Detailed database of patient and test records for analytical reporting and medical research
 Efficient controls on kit inventory movements and tracking of item consumption vs. tests conducted
 More reliable and accurate information enabling faster decision making
 Better handling of compliance standards
 Improved service levels with customers and suppliers
 Data access/Reports at the click of a button – shorter customer service times
 System generated barcodes for sample tracking
 Support for multi-user, multi-location
 Interfacing with latest laboratory equipment for error free reporting
 Faster job processing through all laboratory departments for a quick response to patient
 Decreased operations costs

Find Out More
To find out how EfroTech’s EfroLMS can help you, visit our website at http://www.efrotech.com/efrohms-72-56.aspx or call at +92-21-34389620-2 for an interactive demo.