Pathology laboratories
Collection to signed report: barcoded custody, bench worklists, analyser interfacing, Westgard QC with lockout, autoverification, histopath and micro — a complete standalone LIS.
kNODE Diagnostics · LIS + RIS·PACS · One platform
One patient, one order, one bill — and two production floors
A complete laboratory system and a complete radiology system on one cloud platform. The patient who walks in with "CBC, LFT, chest X-ray, USG abdomen" gets one queue, one payment and one set of results — not two systems wearing one signboard.
Built for India's diagnostic centres — pathology labs, imaging centres, and the very common centre that runs both under one roof and one brand. Buy the lab floor, the imaging floor, or both.
92 Modules across 10 groups
51% Shared by both floors — one patient, one order, one bill
2 Signed reports, delivered in one envelope
<10s Analyser result on the bench — even during a CT upload
Who it's for
Lab, imaging, or both — one platform either way
A site declares which floors it operates, so a chain of mixed sites — processing labs, collection centres, imaging centres, combined centres — runs on one system.
Imaging centres
Booking to signed report: modality worklist, DICOM archive, zero-footprint viewer, teleradiology routing, dose tracking and AERB / PC-PNDT gates — a complete standalone RIS·PACS.
Combined diagnostic centres
The segment this product exists for. One registration, one order across bloods and scans, one invoice, one delivery — and two production floors that each work the way their discipline expects.
Chains & hub-and-spoke networks
Collection centres feeding a processing lab, satellite centres feeding a reading hub, camps and home collection — one custody model for specimens and studies alike.
What's inside
92 modules — a shared spine and two floors
Everything commercial is built once and serves both floors. Everything clinical is built per discipline, so a pathologist and a radiologist each recognise their own floor. Pick a group to browse the highlights.
Patient Registration & Identity
One patient record for both floors, with duplicate detection — because a duplicate costs the prior result and the prior study at once.
Unified Order & Requisition
The entity that joins the two floors: one requisition that may contain tests and procedures, fanning out to specimens and studies.
Service Catalogue
One catalogue, two item types — analytes and panels on one side, procedures and protocols on the other — with shared pricing and scheduling.
Billing, Receipts & Payments
One invoice, one receipt, one payment for the visit. A patient billed twice for one visit has bought two products.
Corporate, Panel & TPA Contracts
One contract that prices a blood panel and a chest film on the same sheet, with one reconciliation.
Packages & Health Checks
The cross-discipline package — a panel plus a chest film plus an ultrasound — the clearest commercial expression of one platform.
Critical Result Escalation
One ladder, one clock, one read-back record, two detectors. A critical potassium and a critical finding escalate identically.
Unified Report & Image Delivery
The envelope: one delivery carrying whatever is signed — both reports plus an expiring image link — with partial delivery marked as partial.
Patient & Referrer Portals
One login shows both result types. The referring doctor sees their patients across both floors, with their own access log.
One relationship, one statement — a referring doctor who sends both bloods and scans has one commission arrangement and one statement, not two implementations and an argument every month.
Collection, Barcoding & Labelling
Container and additive per analyte, label printed at the patient's side, collector and time recorded.
Accessioning, Receipt & Rejection
Custody transfer, identity verification, stability windows, coded rejection with an automatic recollection order.
Bench Worklist & Batching
What each bench runs next, batched by method and instrument, with holds visible.
Results, Validation & Autoverification
Instrument and manual results, delta and absurd checks, and rule-based release without a human — inside a versioned rule set.
Lab Report Build & Signing
Template, interpretation, digital signature, immutable artefact — amendment as a new version, never an edit.
Haematology, Biochem & Immunoassay
The high-volume numeric disciplines: panels, dilutions, repeats, instrument-native workflows.
Microbiology & Susceptibility
A workflow that runs over days, with interim reporting at every stage.
Histopathology & Cytology
Grossing, blocks, slides, staining — and a descriptive report with its full chain of custody.
Home Collection & Phlebotomist App
Routes, slots, collection at the patient's side with offline capture, and a hand-over scan into custody.
Arrival, Safety Screening & Consent
Pregnancy, implants, renal function, prior reactions — and Form F before an ultrasound proceeds. Refusal blocks acquisition, not annotates it.
Acquisition & Technologist Worklist
Started from a worklist entry by barcode, never a typed name. Dose captured at acquisition.
Study Routing & Subspecialty Assignment
Each study matched to a credentialed, available reader within a turnaround commitment — checked at assignment, not trusted from cache.
Verification, Signing & Addendum
Digital signature, immutable artefact, addendum as a new version carrying its reason — with every original recipient re-notified.
DICOM Archive & Study Store
Durable receipt with storage commitment returned only after the cloud confirms — a scanner is never told "kept" optimistically.
Zero-Footprint Web Viewer
Progressive streaming into a browser — first image in under three seconds, no plug-in, no install, no local copy.
Prefetch, Priors & Hanging Protocols
Relevant priors fetched before the reader opens the study, laid out the way that reader expects.
3D Reconstruction & MPR
Multiplanar reformatting served from the viewer service rather than a workstation.
Peer Review & Second Opinion
Sampled double reading and discrepancy classification, with both reports retained — recorded without attaching blame.
Internal QC — Levey-Jennings & Westgard
Control charts and multi-rule evaluation with analyte-scoped lockout: a failing control holds the analyte, never the whole bench.
EQA / Proficiency Testing
Scheme enrolment, cycle samples, submission, score and follow-up.
Imaging Equipment QA
Acceptance and periodic performance testing — physics about a machine, kept as its own evidence chain.
Patient Dose & DRL Tracking
Dose per study compared to the reference level for the protocol, with excursions explained.
AERB Licence & Renewal
Licence per radiation-emitting device. A lapse blocks acquisition on that equipment — enforced, not advised.
PC-PNDT — Form F & Genetic Register
One Act, two entry points, one module: Form F before a covered ultrasound, the register for covered genetic testing. Both gate work.
Nikshay & Notifiable Disease
TB and notifiable-disease submissions triggered by results, confirmed by a person, queued and reconciled — never blocking the counter.
Accreditation Evidence Packs
One assembly mechanism, two packs — a laboratory pack and an imaging pack, each against its own standard and scope, never merged.
Consent, Privacy & DPDP
One consent conversation per visit covering both report types and the images; one withdrawal switch that revokes across the whole envelope.
Two regimes, one shell — document control, CAPA and competency are one engine; the evidence is two bodies. A combined evidence pack would fail both assessments, so the product never builds one.
Unified Site Gateway
One box per site carrying both protocol stacks — ASTM/HL7 to analysers, DICOM to modalities — with one certificate and one fleet console.
Prioritised Transfer & Bandwidth Control
One store-and-forward queue, two payload classes, strict priority — so a 500 MB CT upload never delays a 2 KB blood result.
Worklist & Host Query Broker
One broker answering analyser host queries and DICOM modality worklists — from cloud, or from local cache marked as cached.
Device Master & Conformance
One inventory covering analysers and modalities, with code and tag mapping pushed to each gateway. An unmapped code blocks, never defaults.
Plans & Floor Entitlement
What this tenant bought — including which floors. The floor check is an entitlement enforced below the interface, not a hidden menu.
Metering & Usage Billing
Transactions on one floor, stored bytes by tier on the other — both metered from day one, because storage never counted can't be counted later.
Audit Trail & Immutable Log
One append-only record of change and of access across both floors — including who opened a study, which leaves no other trace.
Analytics & MIS
One MIS across both floors — utilisation, turnaround by floor, referrer mix, dose trend, storage growth — and never an average across disciplines.
Data Export & Offboarding
Results, reports and studies out in a usable form, on request and on exit. Your data is yours.
Why kNODE Diagnostics
One platform where it helps, two disciplines where it matters
A shared login over two systems bills your patient twice. A single generalised engine recognises neither discipline. This product is the honest middle: one commercial spine, two real production floors.
One visit, one bill
"CBC, LFT, chest X-ray, USG abdomen" is one order, priced on one rate card, paid once, with one GST invoice. The patient is asked for their identity once, pays once, and receives once — the three claims we hold every build to.
Two signed reports, one envelope
A pathologist never signs a radiology finding and a radiologist never signs a blood result — each signs within their own accredited scope. What's unified is delivery: one notification, one portal, one share link set. If one floor finishes first, the envelope releases partial and says exactly what's still pending.
Start with one floor, add the other later
Neither floor depends on the other — verified mechanically on every single build. Run the lab today, switch on imaging next year: same platform, same data, same logins. No migration, no re-implementation.
A CT upload never delays a blood report
An analyser result is kilobytes; a CT study is hundreds of megabytes — and they share one gateway and one uplink. Strict priority partitioning keeps result posting under ten seconds even while a full imaging backlog drains. It's an acceptance-tested guarantee, not a hope.
Compliance that blocks, not warns
A failing QC state locks the analyte. An expired AERB licence blocks acquisition on that machine. A covered ultrasound doesn't proceed without Form F. Every gate writes its evidence at the moment of the decision.
One floor down never takes the other with it
Degraded modes are designed per floor, and the status banner says so: "imaging transfer delayed, laboratory processing normal" — so your centre never stops taking bloods because a viewer is slow.
Under the hood
Engineered for two workloads five orders of magnitude apart
Kilobyte results with morning peaks; gigabyte studies with evening reading. The platform decisions below exist so both behave impeccably on one deployment.
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One gateway, two protocol stacks
A single box per site speaks ASTM/HL7 to your analysers and DICOM to your modalities — one certificate, one console, one upgrade path, with 72 hours of results and about a week of studies buffered through any outage.
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Commit-then-confirm archiving
A scanner is told its study is safe only after the replicated, versioned cloud archive confirms it. There is no application delete path for a study — a result can be re-run; a study cannot be re-acquired.
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Three isolation boundaries
Forced row-level security per tenant, per-tenant object prefixes for pixels, and an independent floor-entitlement check below the interface. None depends on a WHERE clause being right.
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Audit of change and of access
A value changed without a reason and a study viewed without clinical need are both first-class audit events — with per-tenant anomaly reporting on viewing volume built in.
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DPDP discharged once per visit
One notice, one consent artefact set, one withdrawal switch covering both reports and the images. Two separate products can't offer that without an integration neither would own.
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Honest storage economics
Imaging is ~99% of stored bytes, so the floors are metered and priced separately — a lab-only centre never sees an object-storage line on its invoice, and tiering is a plan feature where it matters.
Pricing
Per centre, per month — each floor priced for what it costs
A lab stores PDFs; an imaging centre stores terabytes. A blended price would overcharge one and lose money on the other — so the floors are priced separately, and the combined plan is simply both, joined by one spine.
Laboratory
Pathology labs & collection networks
Pricing announced soon
Per centre, per month · lab floor entitlement- Registration, billing & GST invoicing
- Collection, barcoding & accessioning
- Analyser interfacing (ASTM / HL7)
- QC with Westgard lockout
- Autoverification & report signing
- Home collection & phlebotomist app
- Patient & referrer portals
The full platform Combined
Centres running lab + imaging
Pricing announced soon
Per centre, per month · both floors · storage metered by tier- Both floors, plus what only the combination gives:
- One order across tests & scans
- One invoice, one payment per visit
- Cross-discipline health-check packages
- One delivery envelope, both reports
- One referrer statement across floors
- One consent & DPDP model per visit
- Priority-isolated site gateway
Imaging
Imaging centres & teleradiology
Pricing announced soon
Per centre, per month · imaging floor · storage metered by tier- Scheduling, safety screening & consent
- Modality worklist & DICOM archive
- Zero-footprint viewer with priors
- Teleradiology routing & rosters
- Dose & DRL tracking
- AERB & PC-PNDT gates
- Secure sharing by revocable link
Start with either floor and add the other any time — same platform, same data, no migration · full data and image export on request and on exit
Get started
Watch one prescription become one envelope
Book a demo and follow a walk-in patient with "CBC, LFT, chest X-ray, USG abdomen": one registration, one payment, two tubes, two studies, two signed reports — and one delivery, with the audit trail behind every gate.
Every demo includes
- The combined walk-in visit, end to end
- The priority test — results during a CT upload
- Your analysers & modalities, mapped
- A floor-by-floor plan for your centres