Crelio Product Updates & Enhancements In Quarter II 2024

The second quarter of 2024 was quite promising! We launched a few high-end product modules that enhanced quality control, eased decision-making abilities, simplified business ends, and increased user convenience. A few enhancements boosted functionalities, making visuals, navigations, and access easier in their individual areas.

Take a glance at the blog ahead to understand the various product releases and updates and their transformative abilities in your daily lab operations.

I. New Feature Additions

A. Operations Feature?

Operational feature updates cover a wide range of enhancements that can help in informed decision making through tracking, monitoring and controlling various operational ends.

The new product updates for lab operations are as follows –

1. Critical Callout Status Tracking

Importance Of The Feature

Introducing the Critical Callout Status Tracking feature! This enhancement allows users to efficiently manage and monitor the status of critical callouts, ensuring timely action and optimal patient care.

Key Takeaways & Benefits

• Clear Status Indicators:“Callout done” and “Callout pending” tags in the waiting list make it easy to identify the status of critical callouts at a glance.
• Operations Dashboard Integration:Track callout statuses directly from the Operations Dashboard’s Critical Reports section for comprehensive oversight.
• Streamlined Process:Enhances the critical callout process, ensuring efficient management and swift resolution of critical results.
• Improved Patient Care:Timely identification and action on critical callouts contribute to better patient outcomes.

2. TAT Exceeded Enhancements in Operations Dashboard

Importance Of The Feature

Introducing enhanced TAT Exceeded monitoring in our Operations Dashboard! This new feature allows users to efficiently track and manage reports exceeding the target Turnaround Time (TAT), providing crucial insights for better operational oversight.

Key Takeaways & Benefits

• Efficient Tracking:Monitor ongoing TAT-exceeded reports directly from the Operations Dashboard.
• Insightful Monitoring:Gain insights into reports where samples haven’t been collected or received, as well as those with incomplete statuses.
• Enhanced Oversight:Quickly identify and address reports surpassing target TAT, improving overall workflow efficiency and accountability.

3. Introducing QC Dashboard

Importance Of The Feature

Introducing the QC Dashboard, a powerful tool designed to enhance monitoring and analytics capabilities for quality control processes in labs. This feature aims to improve QC monitoring, enhance compliance, and support data-driven decision-making for optimized lab efficiency.

Key Takeaways & Benefits

• Detailed Insights:Gain comprehensive insights into QC results, enabling better analysis and understanding of quality control performance.
• Performance Monitoring:Monitor machine QC performance to ensure consistent and accurate lab operations.
• Rule Violation Identification:Easily identify frequent Westgard rule violations to promptly address and correct issues.
• Effective CAPA Tracking:Track Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) efficiently, ensuring continuous improvement and compliance.
• Enhanced Compliance:Improved QC monitoring helps maintain high standards and regulatory compliance.
• Data-Driven Decisions:Support informed decision-making based on detailed QC analytics, leading to optimized lab efficiency.

4. Interfacing App Update

Importance Of The Feature

This update enhances the Interfacing application by allowing users to filter results based on sample IDs that match or don’t match those in the LIMS. Sample IDs are categorized into bidirectional and unidirectional mappings, providing a clear distinction between matched and unmatched IDs.

Key Takeaways & Benefits

• Improved Data Accuracy:Gain insights into which results have been processed on machines but not yet transferred to the software, ensuring data integrity.
• Error Detection:Detect incorrect sample IDs entered by clients, reducing manual error handling efforts and enhancing accuracy.
• Enhanced Mapping:Categorize sample IDs into bidirectional and unidirectional mappings for clear identification of matched and unmatched IDs.
• Efficient Workflow:Streamline workflows by easily identifying discrepancies, leading to more efficient data management and processing.

B. Business Feature

1. Custom Translations now available for LIMS

Importance Of The Feature

Create a personalized and user-friendly experience by shaping the language to fit your lab’s unique needs. Enhance communication, clarity, and engagement with Custom Translations!

Key Takeaways & Benefits

Language Control:

• Activate/Deactivate any language.
• Set a default language.

Text Customization:

• Easily search and update text to match your preferred terminology.

2. Bulk Organisation Upload Enhancements

Importance Of The Feature

We’re excited to announce enhancements to our bulk organization upload feature! This update ensures smoother data management and user experience by allowing all organization configurations to be efficiently handled in bulk directly on the UI.

Key Takeaways & Benefits

• Error Identification: Quickly identify and correct errors during the bulk upload process.
• Duplicate Handling: Efficiently manage and resolve duplicates to maintain data integrity.
• Clear Summary: Receive a comprehensive summary of upload results, providing transparency and ease of verification.
• Enhanced Data Management: Streamlined bulk handling of organization configurations improves overall efficiency and accuracy.

3. UX Improvement in AI Dashboard

Importance Of The Feature

The UX Improvement in our AI Dashboard introduces exciting updates aimed at enhancing the user experience. These updates streamline the interface and offer improved management of insights, ultimately boosting productivity and engagement.

Key Takeaways & Benefits

• Integrated Insights:Valuable insights are seamlessly integrated into the interface, providing users with relevant information at their fingertips and enhancing productivity.
• Enhanced Insight Management:Users can now efficiently manage insights with various actions such as Hide/Show Insight, Regenerate, Copy, Share Insight, and Share Feedback, enabling better organization and collaboration.

?C. Patient-Centric Features

1. Kit Management Updates for enhanced efficiency and tracking

Importance Of The Feature

Elevate your kit management process with our latest upgrades designed to enhance tracking, activation, and data integrity. These improvements streamline operations, reduce errors, and ensure a smoother user experience.

Key Takeaways & Benefits

• Swift Tracking and Management:Easily check Kit Activation Key and URL from the Orders Screen & Export, ensuring efficient tracking and management.
• Streamlined Activation:Simplify activation for patients by printing labels with the Activation Key, making the process quicker and more user-friendly.
• Enhanced Data Integrity:Ensure data integrity with strict acceptance of only system-generated Sample IDs during activation, reducing errors and enhancing security.

2. Introducing customizable Height & Weight input in Promotions & Store

Importance Of The Feature

This update allows you to configure the units for Height & Weight measurements according to your preference, ensuring accuracy and consistency in patient data collection.

Key Takeaways & Benefits

• Customization for Accuracy:Configure Height & Weight units to match your preferred measurement system, ensuring precise and consistent patient data.
• Enhanced Workflow:Streamline your workflow with tailored measurement units, leading to more efficient data entry and patient care.

II. Product Enhancements

A. Manage Departments Like a Pro!

1. Functionalities Introduced

Grid View:?See all your departments and their details clearly and easily with the new grid view.

Activity Log: Track all changes made to departments, including edits and additions, along with department IDs.

Smooth User Experience: Enhanced navigation ensures a seamless and intuitive experience, making the app easy to use.

2. Added Benefits

Improved Visibility:?The grid view allows for a quick and comprehensive overview of departments, eliminating the need to search through cluttered screens.

Enhanced Accountability:?The activity log provides transparency, helping you monitor who made changes and when ensuring better accountability.

User-Friendly Interface:?Simplified navigation reduces confusion and improves overall efficiency, allowing users to manage departments effortlessly.

B. Multiple UX Improvements

1. Functionalities Introduced

Date Filter Label:?Users can now see the type of date (Bill date, Appointment date, Report date, etc.) they are applying a filter to.

Record Limit Reached Alert Message:?An alert message will now appear when the list limit reaches its maximum threshold, prompting users to select a smaller date range to view all records.

Update Report Modal Changes:?The UI of the “Update Report Info” modal has been improved for a better user experience and to resolve existing bugs.

Multiple Attachments from Bill Confirmation:?Users can now upload patient and bill attachments directly from the bill confirmation page.

TAT Enhancements

• TAT analytics and operations dashboard export details now present timestamps in Excel date-time format, simplifying TAT calculation.
• TAT export now shows TAT in minutes in a separate column for easy conversion.
• TAT is also shown in HH format in dashboards.

CC/Org Dashboard Changes:?CC/org logins can now see the accession number of each test instead of the patient’s contact number.

Report Format Changes:

• Parameter type names are now visible in the report format to avoid duplication of parameter types.
• Column headers of the report entry page are also visible via tooltips.

Source of Billing on Add Test to Bill Modal:

Users can now see the primary bill’s billing source on the add test to bill modal, providing clarity on the billing source.

2. Added Benefits

Improved Date Filtering:?Clear identification of date types enhances filter accuracy and usability.

Proactive Alerts:?Alert messages help manage data load efficiently by prompting for smaller date ranges, ensuring better performance.

Enhanced User Experience:?Improved “Update Report Info” modal ensures a smoother and more intuitive user interaction, reducing bugs and frustrations.

Streamlined Attachments:?Direct upload of attachments from the bill confirmation page saves time and effort, enhancing workflow efficiency.

Simplified TAT Analysis:?Exported TAT data in Excel date-time format and additional time formats make it easier to calculate and interpret TAT.

Better Dashboard Insights:?Displaying accession numbers instead of contact numbers improves data security and clarity on the CC/Org dashboard.

Clearer Report Formatting:?Visible parameter type names and tooltip column headers prevent duplication and improve the clarity of report entries.

Transparent Billing Source:?Displaying the source of billing on the add test to bill modal provides users with clear and immediate information, enhancing billing accuracy.

Our product releases and updates are focused more on adding value, easing your daily tasks, and helping you get the simplest approach to reaching your daily goals. This is why your feedback and comments are quite valuable to us, and we promise we will bring forth more amazing updates that align with your business. Follow our Crelio Updates page if you have missed out on our previous releases.

Thank you for your constant support!