Chasing lab results by phone is one of the most time-consuming tasks in a clinic. Clinit centralises results management — upload, review, flag, and notify patients — all in one workflow.
The Lab Results Problem
A typical Egyptian clinic runs 20–50 lab requests per day. Results arrive by WhatsApp, email, fax, or paper — at different times, from different labs. Staff manually relay results to doctors, who try to remember which patients they are waiting on. Abnormal results get missed. Patients call to chase results that are sitting in a WhatsApp thread nobody is monitoring.
How Clinit Centralises Lab Results
Requesting:
Lab requests are issued from the session screen as a structured order: test name, priority (routine/urgent), requesting doctor, and clinical reason. A printed/PDF requisition is generated for the lab.
Receiving:
Results are uploaded to the patient's record either by:
- Staff scanning/uploading the PDF from the lab
- Direct API integration with partner labs (Alfa, Al-Mokhtabar, IDH) — results post automatically
Review Queue:
All unreviewed results appear in the doctor's results inbox — a prioritised queue showing:
- Days since result was received (aged entries highlighted)
- Abnormal flags (auto-detected for common analytes — FBC, LFT, U&E, HbA1c, lipids, TSH)
Reviewing:
The doctor clicks the result, reviews it in context of the patient's history and reference ranges, adds a clinical note, and takes one of four actions: Normal — No Action Required / Reviewed — Patient Notified / Reviewed — Follow-Up Needed / Abnormal — Urgent Recall.
Patient Notification:
For results that need patient communication, Clinit sends a WhatsApp message: "Your lab results from [date] are ready. Your doctor has reviewed them. [Summary or link to portal]."
Critical Value Alerts
Values outside critical ranges (e.g., serum potassium <2.5 or >6.5 mmol/L, haemoglobin <7 g/dL, serum sodium <120 mmol/L) trigger an immediate alert to the responsible doctor — not just an inbox entry.
