Product

Amal AP-LIS

Built by a practicing pathologist around the way pathology labs actually work. Amal AP-LIS carries a case from accessioning to signed-out report with the structure, quality controls, and audit rigor of a CAP-inspected laboratory — without forcing the workflow to bend to the software.

Product demo video.

01

The complete anatomic pathology workflow

Accessioning, part entry, grossing, blocks, and stain/slide items in one traceable hierarchy: Case → Part → Block → Slide. Cases move through explicit, visible statuses — accessioned, grossed, ready for pathologist, finalized, signed out — with staff and pathologist worklists routing work to the right person.

Screenshot — worklist
Case worklist.
Screenshot — synoptic entry
Interactive CAP protocol entry.

02

CAP-aligned synoptic reporting

The full suite of 55 CAP cancer protocol templates, entered interactively with question-level CAP guidance available in the workflow, then rendered directly into the report. Save drafts mid-protocol, resume, and regenerate with previous answers preserved.

03

Sign-out you can defend

Sign-out requires re-authentication and produces an immutable report version. Post-sign-out changes happen only through explicit addenda and reason-classified amendments; every released version is preserved, and nothing is ever silently overwritten.

Screenshot — signed-out report
Released report version.
Screenshot — QA dashboard
Turnaround and workload metrics.

04

QA and operational dashboards

Turnaround time, pending workload, case volumes, amendment trends, and slide-quality metrics — derived from actual workflow events, not manual tallies.

05

A complete audit trail

Every governed action — every edit, transition, print, and sign-out — emits an audit event. Filterable, site-scoped review surfaces with export, built for inspection readiness.

Screenshot — audit trail
Filterable audit review.
Screenshot — site selection or admin
Site scoping and administration.

06

Multi-site by design

Site-scoped access with role and capability-based permissions, per-site configuration, and controlled cross-site visibility for organizations running more than one laboratory.

07

Labels and barcoding

Slide and specimen-container labels with QR codes, printed from the workflow with full print and reprint history.

Screenshot — label printing
Slide label printing.

08

Deployed your way

Delivered as containerized software, licensed per deployment, with per-laboratory branding and configuration.

Full capability list

Case management & workflow

  • Case accessioning — configurable numbering schemas, case types, and required-field sets per site
  • Patient registration — org-wide duplicate detection at entry
  • Submitter / referring-source capture
  • Part entry — body site, procedure, descriptive qualifiers per part
  • Grossing — gross descriptions, block creation and tracking
  • Stain/slide workflow — ordered → ready → archived lifecycle; site-wide slide work queue
  • Pathologist assignment — assign, reassign, bulk assignment
  • Staff and pathologist worklists
  • Concurrency control — single-editor case lock
  • Specimen provenance — collected and received date capture

Reporting & sign-out

  • Rich-text report drafting with autosave
  • Report templates per site and case type
  • CAP synoptic reporting — 55 CAP cancer protocol templates, interactive entry, embedded CAP guidance, draft save/resume, regenerate with answers preserved
  • Finalization and sign-out with identity re-authentication
  • Immutable signed-out report versions
  • Addenda
  • Reason-classified amendments with cumulative amendment notices
  • Data-quality gate — unresolved placeholders block finalize/sign-out
  • Print-ready reports with configurable letterhead
  • Report-embedded case images

Quality & compliance

  • QA dashboard — turnaround time, pending workload, case volumes, amendment trends, slide-quality metrics
  • Complete audit trail — every governed action recorded; filterable, exportable review surfaces
  • Per-case workflow event history
  • Label print and reprint history
  • Internal case notes, separate from the report

Patients & data

  • Patient search and longitudinal case history
  • Controlled post-accession patient identity correction
  • Case attachments — documents and images with governed lifecycle
  • Image attachments embeddable in reports

Labels & printing

  • QR-coded slide labels
  • Specimen-container labels
  • Browser-based printing to standard label printers

Access control & administration

  • Role templates with capability-group permissions and bounded per-user overrides
  • Sign-out permissions restricted to pathologist roles
  • Site-scoped assignments — read-only or write access per site
  • User administration — account lifecycle, lockout, password policy
  • Session security — inactivity timeout, re-authentication for sign-out
  • Configuration catalogs — body sites, procedures, stains, case types, numbering, templates, submitters
  • Per-site display and letterhead preferences

Multi-site

  • Multiple laboratory sites in one deployment
  • Per-site configuration and access scoping
  • Controlled cross-site visibility

Deployment & security

  • Containerized delivery, licensed per deployment
  • Per-laboratory branding and naming
  • Account lockout, password strength enforcement, encrypted sessions
  • Documented backup and recovery procedures

Interoperability

  • HL7 v2 interfaces — orders, results, ADT
  • FHIR API
  • Electronic report delivery to EMRs and referring systems
  • Native integration with the Amal EMR — coming soon

See the AP-LIS in action.

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