Features of SmartLab Product

• Being a multi-user operated system; SmartLab™ utilizes time and resources to full extent.
  
  
• A powerful, consistent, yet simple to use, search window (which includes a filter option), allows you to quickly search for required information on a screen.
  
  
• Options to define entities like companies and categorizing them, defining concession both at category and company levels, activating/de-activating concession rates at the company level, option to define the concession as a percentage for all tests or separate special price for each test. In addition entities like hospital, doctor, specialization, qualification, measuring units, observations, diagnosis, location, etc can be defined.
  
  
• Two way test results entry: Test wise - Useful for technicians to enter data quickly in a row-wise fashion. Requisition wise - Allows entry of data in a test report layout fashion. 
  
  
• Batch processing:  Allows to generate bills in a single operation for all the un-billed requisitions for a selected date range. This screen allows you to check the target for minimum collection for a day. Batch processing also includes, batch-wise clearance of outstanding cheque/credit-card payments.
  
  
• Messaging: SmartLab™ allows sending and receiving messages within the SmartLab™ system. A very useful option for operators when one has to leave some information for the next operator, before leaving his shift. Can also be used by other users like doctors, technicians, etc. to send and receive notes, reminders, messages, etc.
  
  
• Reports: SmartLab™ has an exhaustive collection of reports, to be precise 35 reports with one or more combinations of input. The reports range from simple tests, departments, hospitals, doctors, requisitions, etc., to the more complex - bill wise collections, operator wise collections, doctor wise collections, pending requisitions, pending test reports, department wise tests, test wise parameters etc.
  
  
• Analysis Tools: SmartLab™ has many analysis tools including - 'Patient Test Reports History' and 'Result Analysis'. Patient Test Reports History, allows to evaluate or compare patients test reports over a period of time. 'Result Analysis' allows to analyze test results for all patients, for a selected test.
  
  
• Help: An exhaustive coverage of help is available online. Context sensitive help makes it even more easier to get familiarized with the system.

• It automatically filters tests based on the gender information of the patient.
  
  
• Applies concession rates to the tests selected based on the company/category concession rates that are in effect.
  
  
• Displays tests in a hierarchical fashion. The groupings are based on Profiles, Departments and Group Tests.
  
  
• Automatically selects credit payments (by default) for patients who belong to a company with credit facility. It also allows toggling from credit to non-credit mode and vice-versa.
  
  
• Option to define other charges, further discounts after company/category concessions and/or profile concessions.
  
  
• Option to allow the payments for requisition in more than one installment.
  
  
• Option to record information about the sample collected status for each test.
  
  
• Option to modify any information of the requisition, specify deductions, generate refunds, etc.
  
  
• Option to search for missing requisitions (requisitions created out of regular sequence).
  

• An option to define Pre-requisite information and notes text for each test. Pre-requisite information can be used by the Technicians to check some conditions (for example: Fasting stomach) with the patient, before taking samples for the tests. Notes information can be used by the doctors.
  
  
• A feature to define a test with more than one technique.
  
  
• An option to define different test parameters and report layouts for different techniques for the same test.
  
  
• An option to copy parameters from one test to another test. Very useful when you find two or more tests having similar test parameters.
  
  
• An option to group similar tests into departments.
  
  
• An option to group tests which are normally done together into "Group Tests". This allows quick creation of requisitions where you select a group test and the requisition is prepared automatically for all the tests that are part of that group.
  
  
• An option to define test rates that are applicable only from a selected "Applicable From" date. This allows you to plan your test rates in advance by setting their "Applicable From" date in future.

• You can design your own test reports using Report Designer.
  
  
• Report Designer helps you by creating a default report layout based on the test parameters.
  
  
• Report Designer allows you to fully customize the test report layout, by adding new text, removing text, removing/adding predefined labels, resizing controls, moving the controls, aligning controls, etc.
  
  
• To help you for an easy test results entry, the controls in the results entry screen vary based on the context. For example, when a parameter is of observation type (where the possible values are predefined), the control becomes a drop-down combo box. This helps you quickly select a value from the list instead of typing them and all the controls, including combo-box appear with a default (normal) value. This would also mean you save lot of time in manual typing where (on an average) test results are normal.
  
  
• Using Test Report Page Styles, you can predefine a set of page styles, which can later be applied to test reports. This allows you to define one page style and apply it to all tests that need similar page settings.
  
  
• Test reports can be sent as Fax or Email.

• General Settings: The system can remember the last login name and password, so that you need not type them again when you login for the next time. You can also check the auto-login option so that login screen can be skipped when the application starts.
  
  
• SmartLab™ Date: An option to work with a preferred working date. Helps a great deal in data entry of old test data, various kinds of rates, patient information, etc., for a new system.
  
  
• Date Format: An option to set how the "date" values should appear through out the system.
  
  
• Currency: An option to set what currency symbol to use when displaying currency values.
  
  
• Report Time: An option to set a default report delivery time that automatically sets the report delivery date time for all subsequent new requisitions.
  
  
• Invoice Settings: An option to define the prefix to use when generating invoices on behalf of the Diagnostic Center. It also allows defining "Financial Year", so that the Invoice Number can reset automatically at the end of the defined Financial Year.
  
  
• E-Mail Settings: An option to configure your email settings that will be used to send test reports via e-mail and fax.
  
  
• Requisition Settings: An option to set how many days of requisitions you want to see by default in the system. It allows you to selectively display requisitions by defining a range of dates. This makes life easier to work with data in the past or analyzing requisitions/system for a given period of time.



• Test Reports Settings: An option to set the Test Reports Font. It allows you to selectively display footer and its text. You can also make the Report Titles values bold. You can define the number of parameters to use for auto centering test report contents, in case of smaller test reports.
  
  
• Receipt/Requisition Slip Settings: Gives an option to switch between preprinted stationery and blank stationery types for printing Receipts/Requisition Slips. It allows customization for header, footer, etc.
  

• A consistent screen design throughout the system makes it easier to learn and master them.
  
  
• Presentation of information (wherever applicable), in the form of tree view and list view, makes it easy to find related information quickly and so is the navigation on screen.
  
  
• Short-cut/Popup menus to quickly access most frequent and/or relevant operations.
  
  
• MS-Office XP style menus with graphic pictures to quickly and easily locate menu options.
  
  
• MS-Office XP style flat buttons with pictures doesn't make clicking various buttons on screens a boring job. Most of the buttons include short-cut keys for quick actions, and the screens have a default and cancel button which are invoked when you press the "Enter" and "Escape" keys respectively.
  
  
• A very useful, Outlook Express Look-alike Messages Window, that allows to send across messages, text, notes, etc., to various users.
  
  
• An auto-complete drop-down combo box allows completing text entries much faster and easier.
  
  
• Useful messages on the status bar of the application indicate what operation the system is performing. The status bar also includes a graphic picture of Login Status and SmartLab™ Date. You can quickly change this information by double-clicking directly in their respective areas.