Fair Deal LIS

Why Fair Deal LIS?

A labs system designed for Sudan first — complete, smart, and works offline.

From patient registration to reporting, notification and disease surveillance — fully in Arabic, at a cost suited to the local reality, with no expensive foreign license fees.

Fully Arabic and RTL

All interfaces, reports and PDFs in Arabic with bilingual support — no partial localization and no bolted-on English templates.

Works offline

Offline-first on a local database — work continues during network or power outages, an operational reality in Sudan.

Disease surveillance & early warning

A regionally rare feature: monitoring positivity rates for malaria, dengue, hepatitis, typhoid and cholera, with automatic outbreak alerts.

An integrated pipeline

Patient → order → invoice → sample (barcode/QR) → result (auto flag) → verification → report → notification, in one system.

Quality & standards

Quality control with Westgard rules and a Levey-Jennings chart, delta check, reflex tests, and a full audit log (toward ISO 15189).

Instrument integration

Import analyzer results via HL7/ASTM and match them to orders automatically — reducing manual entry and errors.

Quick comparison
Feature Fair Deal system Paper/Excel records Expensive foreign systems
Full Arabic interface + RTLMostly English
Working offlineMostly cloud
Disease surveillance & outbreak alertsRarely
Billing & payments in Sudanese poundsManualIn other currencies
Barcode/QR and authenticated Arabic PDF reports
Westgard + LJ quality control
Instrument integration HL7/ASTM
Role-based permissions + audit log
Doctor/patient portal + WhatsApp notificationSometimes
Documented API (integration & extension)
CostLow / no expensive licensesLow but without controlVery high
Flexible deployment: local or a private server (VPS)Heavy footprint

Smart tools — what they do and how to use them

Disease surveillance and early warning

Monitors the weekly positivity rate of infectious diseases and alerts automatically to outbreaks. Use: sidebar → "Disease surveillance" (with dashboard permission).

Turnaround-time analysis (TAT)

Measures each stage's time and reveals the bottleneck and the share completed within the target time. Use: sidebar → "Turnaround-time analysis".

Inventory forecast and reorder

Predicts each reagent's days-to-depletion and suggests an order quantity before it runs out. Use: Inventory → "Inventory forecast" (with inventory-management permission).

Automatic interpretive comments

Automatic Arabic comments (anemia, diabetes, kidney, liver...) appear in a card on the order page as soon as results are entered.

Culture & cumulative antibiogram

Record culture and susceptibility from the order page, then view the %S matrix per organism×antibiotic from the menu → "Antibiogram" (with QC permission).

Calculated tests, auto-verification & delta check

eGFR and globulin are computed automatically, normal results are auto-verified, and sudden changes (delta) are detected automatically.

Real-time quality control (PBRTQC)

Monitoring analytical drift in real time from patient results (EWMA) without QC materials — continuous, free quality control.

Quality indicators (ISO 15189)

An indicators dashboard per ISO 15189:2022 and IFCC WG-LEPS (sample rejection, TAT, critical values) — accreditation readiness.

Blood bank

Register donors and units (with screening), view the inventory, and perform matching and issue with automatic ABO/Rh checking from "Blood bank".

Quality management (ISO 15189 QMS)

Documents/SOPs, equipment calibration, nonconformity (CAPA), and competency records — from "Quality management ISO 15189".

Interoperability (FHIR / LOINC / SNOMED)

Code tests with LOINC/SNOMED from the catalog; the FHIR R4 interface (‎/fhir) exports results for national integration.

Imaging and digital microscopy

Create a study from the order page, upload microscope images, and review them in a structured form (malaria/blood film) — an AI hook is ready.

Radiology and teleradiology

Radiology studies (X-ray/CT/MRI), DICOM/image upload, and a structured report signed remotely by the specialist producing an Arabic PDF — ready for a DICOM/PACS viewer.

Home sample collection

A public form where the patient requests home sample collection, which becomes an order and invoice automatically, assigned to a phlebotomist with status tracking.

Remote medical consultations

An asynchronous chat to explain the result from the report page (no account), with automatic fees and notifications — live video is enabled when needed.

Multi-lab platform

Multiple labs on one system with full data isolation: self-registration with a 14-day trial, a city labs directory, and a management & subscriptions dashboard.

Doctor & patient portals

The doctor submits orders, follows their patients' results and writes recommendations; the patient sees their results and the doctor's recommendations — via a secure email invitation.

Insurance & claims (NPHIES)

Add payers and coverage, then create a claim from the order page to build the NPHIES (FHIR) bundle — submitted once configured.

Audited auto-verification

Explicit rules + an "auto-verification audit" dashboard (the rate and the log) — safe, auditable release.

Smart tools (implemented and in development)

The system is growing into the smartest labs platform in Sudan:

✓ Disease surveillance and early warning ✓ Calculated tests (eGFR and others) ✓ Delta check & reflex tests ✓ Audited auto-verification (an auditable framework) ✓ Automatic interpretive comments in Arabic ✓ Cumulative antibiotic report (Antibiogram) ✓ Inventory & reagent forecast ✓ Turnaround-time analysis & bottleneck detection ✓ Real-time quality control (PBRTQC) ✓ Quality indicators (ISO 15189 / IFCC) ✓ ISO 15189 accreditation module (documents/CAPA/equipment/competencies) ◐ Insurance e-claims integration (NPHIES) — a ready foundation; submission once configured ✓ Interoperability FHIR R4 / LOINC / SNOMED (read) ✓ Blood bank & transfusion ◐ Imaging & digital microscopy (ready foundation; AI when hardware is available) ✓ Radiology & teleradiology ✓ Home sample collection ✓ Remote medical consultations (async) ◐ DICOM/PACS viewer and video call (enabled via configuration) ✓ Multi-lab platform with data isolation + subscriptions ✓ Doctor & patient portals (email invitation) ⏳ Natural-language query (AI)

✓ Implemented now · ◐ Ready foundation (needs hardware/external infrastructure) · ⏳ On the roadmap.

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