Case study · A product for medical laboratories
W-LIS — laboratory information system
From order to result, with zero manual entry. A LIS for medical laboratories: test registration, result processing, quality and process control, CIS exchange and direct analyzer integration.
Results · awaiting validation
Keep scrolling — from sample registration to the director's report
The laboratory loop
One barcode connects the tube, the analyzer and the doctor's report
Challenge
Laboratories processed orders and results manually: transferring data from analyzers took time and caused errors.
Solution
We built W-LIS: order intake with sample barcoding, direct integration with lab analyzers, quality control and automatic result delivery to patients and doctors.
About the project
W-LIS is a laboratory information system that automates the work of medical labs. It carries a test through its entire journey: order registration with sample barcoding, automatic data intake from analyzers, checks against reference intervals and patient history, two-step validation, quality control and result release — to the clinic system, the doctor and the patient. The director sees the lab in numbers: turnaround, workload and cost.
Every result passes two-step validation, and critical values never wait: the doctor gets an SMS the moment they are confirmed
- Industry
- Laboratory diagnostics
- Status
- In production
- Product
- An in-house WIRES DEVS product
- Platform
- Web · cloud or on-premise
- Protocols
- HL7 · FHIR · ASTM
A sample's journey
One morning of sample B-260847, minute by minute
Registration
The order takes 40 seconds: referral, cito priority, barcode printing. From that second the sample has a name every stage can read.
Sorting
The barcode routes the tube across departments — chemistry, hematology, immunoassay. Every sample's status is visible in real time; losing one is no longer possible.
The analyzer
Two-way ASTM exchange: the worklist goes to the analyzer on its own, the result comes back with sample quality flags — no manual transfer.
Validation
The system has already checked reference intervals and the delta against past results; the shift's Westgard QC has passed. The lab physician only makes the call — confirm or rerun.
Release
The report goes to the CIS via HL7, the patient gets an SMS link, and critical values get the doctor's explicit confirmation. Total journey: 2 hours 31 minutes.
Try it yourself
A shift through the lab physician's eyes: three results await a decision
An interactive validation demo, just like the W-LIS workstation. The system has already checked the references and raised the flags; confirm each result. The critical value asks for a double confirmation — that's how the product guards against a stray click. No data is sent anywhere.
- A normal result releases with one click — the system checked the reference intervals itself
- An out-of-range value is flagged, but the decision stays with the physician
- A critical value is confirmed twice and instantly notifies the attending doctor
Validated
0 / 3
B-260853
Hemoglobin
Normal148 g/L
ref 132–173
B-260851
Glucose
High7.9 mmol/L
ref 4.1–5.9
B-260847
Potassium (K⁺)
Critical6.8 mmol/L
ref 3.5–5.1
Capabilities
One system for every stage of the lab's work
Test registration
A 40-second order: sample barcoding, referral and cito priority tracking, label printing right at collection.
Result processing
Automatic data intake from analyzers, reference interval checks, two-step validation and report release.
Quality control
In-lab QC with Westgard rules, Levey–Jennings charts and a control material log.
CIS integration
Order and result exchange over HL7 and FHIR: the doctor gets the report in their own system, no retyping.
Reports & statistics
Ready management reports: workload, turnaround, cost and reagent usage. Export to Excel and PDF.
Process control
Every sample tracked across all stages, TAT deadline control, alerts for critical values and idle time.
Reports & statistics
The director sees the lab in numbers
The director's dashboard shows department workload, deadline compliance and the test mix for any period. Reports build themselves — no chasing staff, no hand-made spreadsheets.
- TAT compliance for every test type
- Staff and analyzer workload by shift
- Reagent usage and cost per test
- Excel and PDF export with scheduled delivery
Director's report · August 2026
Tests
96,240
TAT on time
97.4%
Reruns & rejects
0.6%
Test mix by department
Built automatically · sent to the chief physician and the lab head
Integrations
Slots into the existing IT infrastructure
Two-way CIS exchange over HL7 v2 and FHIR, direct analyzer connection over ASTM, exports and a REST API for external services. Integration takes zero rework on the clinic's side.
The clinic's CIS
orders → W-LIS → results and reports
Analyzers
45+ models · bidirectional mode · auto-upload
Patient portal
results via an SMS link right after validation
Reports & exports
Excel, PDF and scheduled delivery
Security & compliance
Medical data, protected
Personal data
Storage and processing under Kyrgyz personal data law; encryption in transit and at rest.
Role-based access
Rights by position: technician, lab physician, head, administrator — everyone sees only their scope.
Audit trail
A full audit of every sample and result: who changed what and when, down to a single corrected digit.
Backups
Automatic backups; runs in the cloud or on the clinic's own servers — your choice.
The system in numbers
A barcode read millions of times a year
Every stripe is a sample with a history: from registration to report, its trace stays in the system
140+
laboratories work in W-LIS every day
28M
tests a year flow through the system
99.98%
service availability — labs run around the clock
45+
analyzer models connect directly
Who the system serves
Four views of a single tube
Technicians & lab physicians
A worklist instead of paper logs: scanner, flags, patient history and validation in a couple of clicks.
The lab director
Workload, turnaround, cost and reagent usage — in automatic reports, not staff interviews.
Attending doctors
Results land straight in the CIS with no retyping, and critical values arrive as instant alerts.
Patients
An SMS link to the result right after validation — no second trip to the lab for a printout.
Result
Manual data transfer is gone, results are delivered faster, and test errors dropped to a minimum.
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