PCR Lab Pro is not a LIS. Replacing your LIS is not the offer.

“How is this different from our LIS?”

Short answer: your LIS is the record of the encounter. We’re the record of the report.

What we don’t touch, and don’t want to. We don’t register patients. We don’t take orders from your clients. We don’t accession specimens — your LIS does that, and it’s the accession of record. We don’t talk to your EMR, and we don’t send HL7 anywhere. We don’t do payer billing, claims, or inventory. We don’t hold your legal record. If your LIS went away tomorrow, we would not be able to stand in for it, and we’d be the first to tell you so.

What we do. We start from a file your LIS already knows how to produce — the order manifest, exported as CSV. From there we own the part your LIS was never really built for: the run and its plate, the controls, the call on every target against the CT window your lab validated on your instrument, the approval, the release, and the report itself — a branded PDF on your letterhead, with your director’s name, your license number and your template. Then the parts that only show up later: the corrected result that has to become version 2 with a reason and a name on it, and the stewardship section a clinician actually reads.

You will notice we hold orders and accessions too. We do. A report has to be bound to the specimen it describes, or it isn’t a clinical document. But we hold them as the report’s context, not as the system of record — which is why the binding between an order, a run and a specimen is read-only in a correction. A correction fixes a measurement. It can’t quietly reassign a sample to a different patient.

Why not just use the reporting module in the LIS? Sometimes you should. If your LIS produces a report your director is happy to sign, and corrections and stewardship are handled, you don’t need us. Labs come to us when the report is the part that’s still done by hand — when the LIS export goes into a spreadsheet, the spreadsheet goes into a Word template, and the approval is an email. That’s the stage we replace, and it’s the stage that costs you the most on a Friday afternoon.

What it costs you to find out. Nothing your LIS vendor has to approve. There’s no interface project, no HL7 spec, no change request. CSV in, PDF out — and your first released report is free.