Introduction

Enhance the quality and efficiency of your inpatient care with the Laboratory & Hospitalization Integration module for Odoo. This vital tool seamlessly connects your laboratory operations with your inpatient (hospitalization) management, creating a unified and streamlined workflow for all patient testing. By allowing physicians and nurses to create lab test requests directly from a hospitalized patient's record, this module eliminates manual requisitions, reduces the risk of errors, and ensures that all test results are automatically linked to the correct patient file. It's an indispensable solution for any hospital looking to improve the speed of diagnosis, enhance communication between departments, and maintain a complete, accurate, and centralized patient record.

Key Features

• Direct Lab Requests from Hospitalization: Create new laboratory test requests for inpatients directly from their hospitalization record.

• Centralized Patient Record: A dedicated smart button on the hospitalization form provides a quick overview and access to all of the patient's lab requests and results.

• Automated Information Linking: Automatically links the patient, their physician, and the hospitalization details to the lab request, ensuring data consistency.

• Seamless Workflow Integration: Fully integrates the Laboratory Management and Hospitalization modules within the Odoo Hospital Management System (HMS).

• Improved Clinical Communication: Ensures that laboratory staff have immediate and accurate information about the patient and the required tests.

• Invoice from Hospitalization: Consolidate and create invoices for laboratory tests along with other hospitalization charges.

Benefits

• Improved Patient Care and Safety: Reduces the risk of errors in test ordering and ensures that clinicians have timely access to critical lab results, leading to better and faster treatment decisions.

• Enhanced Operational Efficiency: Eliminates the need for paper requisitions and manual data entry, saving significant time for both nursing and laboratory staff.

• Streamlined Clinical Workflows: Creates a smooth and efficient process for ordering, tracking, and reviewing lab tests for all hospitalized patients.

• Unified and Complete Patient Records: Guarantees that a patient's hospitalization record contains a complete and accurate history of all laboratory tests performed during their stay.

• Better Departmental Collaboration: Fosters seamless communication and collaboration between the inpatient wards and the clinical laboratory.

• Accurate Billing: Ensures that all billable laboratory tests conducted during a hospital stay are accurately captured and included in the final patient invoice.

Compatibility & Technical Details

• Required Modules: Odoo Hospital Management (acs_hms), Laboratory Management (acs_hms_laboratory), Hospitalization (acs_hms_hospitalization).

• License: OPL-1

• Technical Name: acs_hms_laboratory_hospitalization

Installation:

1. Download the module file and its dependencies.

2. Place the module folders into your Odoo addons directory.

3. Restart the Odoo server.

4. Navigate to the 'Apps' menu, activate developer mode, and click 'Update Apps List'.

5. Search for "Hospitalization - Laboratory Management" and click 'Install'.