Software & IT
LIS (Laboratory Information System)
The system that runs a laboratory's work — ordering, specimen tracking, result entry, verification, reporting and quality control.
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A laboratory information system manages the laboratory's own workflow, as distinct from the hospital system that orders the tests and bills for them. Its scope is the loop from order to report: accessioning specimens, receiving results from analysers, applying reference ranges, routing results through verification, and issuing the report. A LIS may be a module of a hospital system or a standalone product sold to independent laboratories.
Why it matters in a hospital
The verification step is what separates a laboratory information system from a spreadsheet with a printer. A result that has been entered is not the same as a result that has been checked, and a report issued without that distinction being visible is a clinical hazard — the reader cannot tell what they are looking at. Quality control belongs here too: a control run that failed should be able to stop a result being released rather than merely be recorded somewhere for later.
How Trisvio handles it
Trisvio's diagnostics module runs the full loop — order, barcoded accessioning, result entry or analyser capture, two-stage technical-then-clinical verification, and an A4 report that stays watermarked until it is fully verified. It runs either as part of the hospital system or standalone for an independent laboratory, with its own registry and invoicing in that mode.
Related
Related terms
- HL7 v2The long-established messaging standard hospital systems and laboratory analysers use to exchange orders and results.Read definition →
- Accession NumberThe unique identifier given to a specimen when the laboratory receives it, distinct from the patient number and the order number.Read definition →
- TAT (Turnaround Time)The time from a laboratory test being ordered — or the sample collected — to the verified result being available to the clinician.Read definition →
- Reference RangeThe band of values considered normal for an analyte, which varies by age and sex — and, for newborns, by age in days rather than years.Read definition →
- FHIRThe modern HL7 standard for health data exchange, built on web APIs and JSON — and, in India, the basis of ABDM data sharing.Read definition →
- Westgard RulesA set of statistical rules applied to laboratory control runs to decide whether an analytical batch should be accepted or rejected.Read definition →
- Reflex TestingAn additional test the laboratory adds automatically when a first result meets a defined rule, without the clinician re-ordering it.Read definition →