A lab order that starts as a doctor's instruction and ends as a signed report touches several hands along the way — the ordering doctor, sample collection, the lab technician processing it, and whoever verifies and releases the result. A Laboratory Information System (LIS) exists to keep that chain connected electronically instead of relying on paper requisition slips and manually delivered reports.
The order-to-report workflow
How a lab order moves
Order placed
From OPD or IPD
Sample collected
Tagged to the order
Processing
Results entered
Verified & released
Report reaches the doctor
Each step should update the same order record rather than creating disconnected paperwork — a doctor checking a patient's chart should see whether a test is ordered, collected, in-process, or reported, without calling the lab to ask.
Priority and turnaround
Not every test is equal. Emergency and stat orders need to visibly jump the queue ahead of routine tests, and a lab worklist should make that priority obvious rather than relying on the lab technician remembering which orders were urgent.
Where lab connects to the rest of the hospital
A lab order for an admitted patient should post its charge to that patient's running IPD bill automatically — see our IPD billing guide. For radiology, which follows a very similar order-to-report shape with imaging in place of a physical sample, see our radiology workflow guide.
The paper slip is the tell
A simple way to judge whether a lab is genuinely digitized: does a printed requisition slip still physically travel from the ward to the lab? If it does, the order-tracking, the priority flagging and the automatic billing described above aren't actually connected yet — they're running alongside a paper process rather than replacing it, which means every one of those benefits depends on someone remembering to also update the digital record.
How Uyirly runs the lab
Uyirly's lab follows every sample by barcode from collection to a verified report. A test ordered in a consultation appears on the lab worklist with no paper slip; the technician enters results against the reference ranges, which flag high and low values automatically; a pathologist verifies before anything is released; and the letterhead PDF report is delivered to the patient by WhatsApp or a patient portal.
- Barcoded samples with a live worklist of pending, in-process and verified tests.
- Reference ranges flag abnormal values automatically.
- Verified reports become clean letterhead PDFs, delivered without a second visit.
- Walk-in and ward orders both bill to the right patient with no re-registration.
Getting started
The lab runs standalone or inside Uyirly's hospital management software, sharing the patient record with OPD and radiology. You can start a 30-day free trial with no credit card.