Skip to main content
Lab Station is the laboratory’s own dashboard: how much work came through, how fast it went, and the catalogue of tests that every request is built from. It is where a lab manager looks, not where a bench scientist records a result.

​
What you’re looking at

A date range picker sets the period every figure on the page is measured over, and New Lab Test jumps straight to the ordering form. Three tabs divide the screen.

​
Analytics

Four tiles run across the top — Total Lab Tests, Pending Tests, Completed Tests and Critical Results — each with a week-on-week comparison and a second line (Awaiting processing, a completion rate, Requires immediate attention). Under them sit seven charts: Test Volume Trends, Most Requested Tests, Turnaround Time, Staff Performance, Test Type Distribution, Patient Demographics and Test Correlations. Turnaround is shown in hours against a target line, which is the fastest way to see whether a backlog is real or seasonal.

​
Test List

This is the catalogue, and it is what the ordering form searches. Columns are Test Name, Category, Department, Price, Parameters, Usage Count and Created. A test with no category shows Uncategorized, and a test with no price shows N/A. An empty catalogue reads No lab tests found for this clinic; a search with no match reads No lab tests match your search.

​
Reports

Lab AI Reports generates a written commentary on the period. Eight report types are offered on the left, under Select a lab report type: Comprehensive, Test Trends, Staff Performance, Department Distribution, Parameter Abnormality, Critical Results, Patient Demographics and Test Correlations. Before anything is generated the right pane says No Report Selected.

​
Maintain the test catalogue

Every parameter you define here becomes a field on the results form, and every reference range you set is what prints on the report. This is the highest-leverage screen in the laboratory.
1

Open the Test List tab

Find an existing test with Search lab tests, or use View Columns → Toggle columns to show what you need.
2

Add a test

Select New Test Record and give it a name, a category, a department, a price and its parameters with their reference ranges. It becomes available to the ordering form immediately.
3

Edit or inspect an existing one

The row menu offers View Details, Edit Details and Delete Test. Usage Count tells you how often a test is actually ordered, which is the honest way to decide whether it belongs in the catalogue.
4

Delete only what nobody uses

Delete Test asks first: “Are you sure you want to delete …? This action cannot be undone.” Results already recorded against past requests are unaffected — you are removing the test from the menu, not from history.
5

Refresh

Refresh re-reads the catalogue and confirms with Lab tests refreshed.

​
Generate a lab report

1

Pick the report type

Choose one of the eight on the left. Comprehensive covers the lot; the others answer one question each.
2

Select Generate Report

The button reads Generating… while it runs. The finished report is dated — Generated {date}, or Regenerated {date} if you have run it again.
3

Read it before you circulate it

This text is written by AI from your lab’s own figures. Treat it as a first draft: check the numbers against the Analytics tab, and never send it out unread.
4

Export it

Export offers Export as PDF and Export as Word. Regenerate produces a fresh version over the same period.
Before anything has been generated the pane reads No lab report available, with Generate your first lab AI report to see insights about test trends, staff performance, and lab metrics.

​
Who can do this

Your role decides whether the Laboratory group opens, and whether an owner has hidden it from that role under Role navigation. Inside it: Per-person enforcement is opt-in: someone never saved in the permissions sheet is unrestricted, and the sheet warns “Saving starts enforcing”. A denied action is written to the audit log; an allowed one is not. Hiding the group from a role’s sidebar is a convenience, not a security boundary. See Staff permissions.

​
Check it worked

  • A test you added appears when you search for it on the ordering form.
  • Its parameters appear as fields on the results form for the next request.
  • The Total Lab Tests tile moves when you change the date range.
  • A generated report shows Generated {date} and exports without error.

​
Common issues

The ordering form searches this catalogue by name. Check for a typo, and check you saved the test rather than closing the form — the Test List tab is the source of truth.
Ranges come from the test definition here, not from the results form. A test defined without ranges prints without them for every patient. Edit the test and add them.
Your browser blocked the export window. Allow pop-ups for ClinikEHR and select Export again.
The message adds Could not export the report. Please try again. Regenerate the report first, then export — an export of a stale report is the usual cause.
The date range is the first thing to check; the tiles measure the period you selected, not all time. Widen the range and they repopulate.
It needs the Enterprise plan and the Diagnostics care area in Settings → Facility. See Care areas.

​
FAQ

Only after a person has read it. It is generated from your own figures but it is still generated text — check it against the Analytics tab, and edit the exported document if you need to.
No. Results already recorded stay on the patients’ records. Deleting removes the test from the ordering menu only.
On Lab test list for today’s requests, or on Lab reports for the full order-to-report flow.
It is measured across the lab’s own processing window. For the full turnaround breakdown, the Diagnostics edition documents the same figures in more depth — see Turnaround time.
Not as separate lists. Use the Department column on each test and filter the catalogue by it — every hospital shares one catalogue so an order never falls between two of them.