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FEATURES

Everything the system does

207 features in 9 areas. Every facility gets the core; add-ons are switched on only where you need them. Open any row to see what is in it.

The patient journey

Registration, booking, arrival and the queue — everything that happens before a clinician opens the record.

Patient ManagementOne record per person, findable in seconds and hard to duplicate by accident.
  • Patient registration with card numbers
  • Fast patient lookup by name, phone, or card number
  • Duplicate-patient warning at registration, and merging when one slips through
  • Age-only registration with an estimated date of birth, kept distinct from a documented one
  • Allergies, problem list and vaccination card on every patient
  • Full patient history in one place
  • Online self-registration form patients can fill before arriving
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Front Desk & Patient FlowOne screen for the whole front desk, and a live board showing where every patient is.
  • Single-screen front desk: find patient, register, check in, take card fee
  • Live queue board showing everyone in the building, where they are, how long they have waited, and what they owe
  • Waiting-room display that calls queue numbers, never names
  • View your own queue or the whole facility's day
  • Walk-ins and scheduled patients handled the same way
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Appointments & BookingBooking against real staff availability, including requests patients raise themselves.
  • Appointment scheduling with staff availability
  • Public online booking page for patients
  • Booking through Telegram — patients find the facility, book, reschedule or cancel in a Mini App
  • Booking request review — accept and schedule, or decline
  • Waitlist
  • Double-booking prevention
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Patient PortalPatients read their own bills, visits, results and medicines — only what the facility switches on.
  • Sign-in by phone number and one-time SMS code
  • Bills, visits, verified results and medicines, each switchable per facility
  • Pay a bill from the phone, including by sending proof of a bank transfer
  • Invoices and receipts sent as PDFs in Telegram

Clinical work

Consultation, triage, specialty charting and pharmacy, all recorded against the same visit.

Consultation & Clinical RecordsStructured charting the facility shapes itself, filled in during the consultation.
  • Digital patient charts
  • Diagnoses with ICD-10 coding
  • Prescriptions checked for interactions, dose and allergies before they are saved
  • Vitals and clinical data captured before the doctor sees the patient
  • Custom form templates the facility designs itself
  • Consent records, signed and never edited
  • Second-opinion consults between colleagues
  • Digitally signed medical certificates and sick notes, checkable by QR code
  • Attach photos, scans, and documents
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TriageAdd-onSickest first: an acuity score that reorders the queue, on a protocol the facility configures.
  • Configurable triage levels, danger signs and age-banded vital-sign ranges
  • Ready-made ETAT+ and five-level presets
  • Queue reordered by acuity, not arrival time
  • Triage on the phone as well as the desktop
Specialty ChartingSpecialty packs that install the forms, diagnoses and service catalogue a department needs.
  • Ophthalmology, cardiology, dermatology and psychiatry packs
  • Specialty diagnosis menus and examination forms
  • Dental: tooth chart with history, per-tooth procedures, periodontal charting and treatment plans that turn into bills
  • WHO growth charts with z-scores for children
  • Image viewer for X-ray and ultrasound exports, with before-and-after comparison
PharmacyAdd-onA dispensing window that knows the prescription, the stock and whether the visit is paid.
  • Prescription queue by patient visit
  • Dispensing with stock deduction, pricing, and the earliest-expiring batch picked first
  • Partial supply, substitution, cancellation
  • Over-the-counter sales at the drug window
  • Accepts prescriptions written elsewhere, and prints a QR-checkable prescription for medicines not in stock
  • Will not release medicine until the visit is paid
  • Controlled-drug register, pharmacist interventions and compounding records
  • RRF and IFRR logistics reports
Video ConsultationsAdd-onA consultation over video is still a visit — booked, charted and billed like any other.
  • Waiting board and join links for patient and clinician
  • Works without a video provider account, or with the one you already use
  • No-show record for video appointments

Diagnostics

Laboratory, imaging and blood bank — ordered from the room, worked from a list, and reported back to the chart.

LaboratoryAdd-onOrdering from the room, a worksheet for the bench, and results that keep their corrections.
  • Lab test catalogue with order sets and STAT / urgent / routine priority
  • Lab worksheet — technicians see their day's work in one list
  • Barcoded specimen labels and scan-to-receive
  • Results straight from analysers (ASTM and HL7)
  • Critical-value call log with read-back and clinician acknowledgement
  • Preliminary, final, and corrected results, with corrections tracked and originals kept
  • Culture & sensitivity, histopathology and a cumulative antibiogram
  • Internal quality control with Westgard rules
  • Requests to and from other facilities
Radiology & ImagingAdd-onA modality worklist that runs scan, report and verify, and lands the impression in the chart.
  • Imaging study catalogue tied to priced services
  • Accession numbers and a modality worklist
  • Pre-procedure checklist
  • Scan → report → verify, with the signed impression returned to the chart
  • Connects to an Orthanc PACS
Blood BankAdd-onFrom donor to transfusion, with compatibility checked by the system rather than by memory.
  • Donor register with computed eligibility
  • Collections held in quarantine until screening is complete and non-reactive
  • Stock board by blood group and component
  • ABO/Rh compatibility enforced on every issue
  • Cross-matching, transfusion observations, reactions and emergency release

Inpatient and acute care

Wards, theatre, the emergency department and the services that keep a hospital running.

Inpatient WardsAdd-onWards, beds and the stay itself — from the admission waiting list to the discharge clearance.
  • Ward board with bed census and patients waiting for a bed
  • Admissions, transfers and discharges, with the bed charged per night
  • Medication administration record (MAR) with dose slots, holds and witnessed controlled drugs
  • Nursing observations, progress notes and rounds list, sickest first
  • Fluid balance, neuro and other ward charts the facility can edit
  • Liaison desk: admission requests, discharge clearance and social services
  • Readings from bedside monitors, waiting for a nurse to accept
Operating TheatreAdd-onSessions, case booking and a WHO safety checklist the system actually enforces.
  • Procedure catalogue tied to priced services
  • Theatre sessions and case booking with clash checks
  • WHO surgical safety checklist: consent and sign-in, time-out, sign-out
  • Theatre register with its four times, and a recovery board
  • Perioperative record sheets
Emergency DepartmentAdd-onA tracking board for the ED, with dispositions that admit, refer or discharge in one step.
  • ED tracking board by zone and bay, sickest first
  • Attending clinician and door-to-doctor time
  • Dispositions that admit to a ward, refer out, or discharge
  • Built on triage, so acuity carries through
Support ServicesAdd-onThe kitchen, the cleaners, the mortuary and the ambulance — each with its own list.
  • Dietary: clinical diets and the kitchen tray list, with food allergies and nil-by-mouth
  • Housekeeping: a vacated bed is released only when its clean is done
  • Mortuary register with chain of custody and recorded release
  • Ambulance fleet, dispatch and call log with response times
  • Trips and stays charged through the normal bill

Public health programmes

The national registers health centres and programme sites keep — maternity, immunisation, chronic care, HIV, TB and more.

Maternity & Child HealthAdd-onFrom antenatal care to growth monitoring, with or without a labour ward.
  • Labour and delivery with the partograph
  • Newborn record and birth notification
  • Postnatal care, IMNCI and growth monitoring
  • Acute-malnutrition programmes
  • Comprehensive abortion care
  • Ethiopian EPI schedule with due and missed doses on the vaccination card
Sexual & Reproductive HealthAdd-onThe registers a youth-friendly service keeps, including work done away from the building.
  • Family planning and antenatal care visits
  • HIV testing and counselling, and STI cases
  • Counselling sessions and the youth client profile
  • Community outreach recorded without a visit or a bill
Chronic Care (NCD)Add-onRegisters for long-term conditions, with follow-up and control tracked per patient.
  • Hypertension, diabetes, asthma/COPD, cardiovascular, kidney, epilepsy and cancer registers
  • Follow-up visits with control status
  • WHO cardiovascular risk assessment
  • Opportunistic NCD screening and cervical cancer screen-and-treat
HIV Care & ARTAdd-onThe ART clinic on one record: enrolment, follow-up, viral load and the cohort report.
  • Enrolment with the unique ART number, and ART initiation
  • Follow-up form, regimen and status changes
  • Viral-load loop with enhanced adherence counselling
  • Differentiated service delivery models and defaulter tracing
  • PMTCT and HIV-exposed infant follow-up, PrEP and PEP
  • Cohort report
TB & LeprosyAdd-onThe unit TB register and treatment cards, with results flowing in from the lab when you have one.
  • Presumptive TB register and unit TB register with the TB number
  • TB and DR-TB treatment cards, and the DOT card
  • Contact screening and TB preventive therapy
  • Defaulter tracing and transfer in / out
  • Leprosy register with disability grading
  • TB cohort report
Rehabilitation & Palliative CareAdd-onPhysiotherapy episodes and palliative care, assessed, billed and followed up.
  • Rehabilitation episodes with assessments (Barthel, FIM, muscle testing)
  • Billed therapy sessions, assistive products and prosthetics
  • Palliative enrolment, home visits with symptom scoring, and advance care planning
  • Opioids on the WHO ladder and bereavement follow-up

Money and stock

Charges raised where care happens, and stock drawn down by the same event that bills for it.

Billing & PaymentsOne balance per visit, however many counters and bills it passed through.
  • Invoicing and payment recording
  • One consolidated balance per visit, even when several bills are raised
  • Separate pharmacy and clinical cash counters, each seeing only its own money
  • Point-of-sale register with barcode scan, product grid, and running ticket
  • Cashier shifts with a closing Z-report by payment channel
  • Discounts, fee waivers and late penalties within limits the facility sets
  • Patient deposits, refunds and a running bill for inpatients
  • Service cards and packages sold at one price, with usage tracking
  • Payment proof capture
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Insurance & ClaimsAdd-onThe payer and patient share split on the bill, and claims batched per payer.
  • Payers, plans and patient coverage
  • Line-by-line split between what the payer and the patient owe
  • Claims batched per payer, with remittances posted as payments
Inventory & StockAdd-onPurchasing, receiving and consumption in one ledger, so the screen matches the shelf.
  • Products, categories, variants, suppliers
  • Buy by the box, sell by the piece
  • Purchase orders, goods receipts and supplier returns
  • Batches and expiry, issued earliest-expiry first
  • Transfers between stores and branches
  • Stocktakes, adjustments and bulk corrections
  • Bin cards and Model 22 vouchers
  • Consumables used per patient visit, deducted automatically
  • Reorder alerts
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Your team

Rosters, credentials, attendance and Ethiopian payroll for the people running the facility.

Staff & HRWho works when, who is on leave, who is licensed, and who actually turned up.
  • Staff profiles, departments and specialties
  • Which staff treat patients and which do not
  • Shift scheduling, coverage gaps and the on-call rota
  • Leave types and balances, and time-off requests
  • Licences and credentials, with an expiry list
  • Attendance tracking, with fingerprint/biometric device support
  • Bulk staff import from a spreadsheet
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PayrollAdd-onEthiopian tax brackets, loans and payslips — run from the attendance you already have.
  • Salary components, allowances, deductions
  • Ethiopian tax brackets
  • Staff loans and advances
  • Payroll runs and payslip generation
  • Staff can view their own payslips

Reporting and dashboards

What the day produced — for management, for clinicians, and for the returns the Ministry of Health asks for.

Reports & AnalyticsClinical, financial and operational reporting — for one site or every branch side by side.
  • Financial, clinical, operational, and queue reports
  • Lab, pharmacy, inpatient, imaging, referral and consult reports
  • Morbidity reporting (conditions by age band and sex)
  • Every branch side by side over the same period
  • Excel export
  • Clinicians see their own performance figures
HMIS & SurveillanceThe national returns a facility is legally required to file, produced from the work already recorded.
  • Monthly, quarterly and annual HMIS service return on the official reporting calendar
  • OPD and IPD disease returns by sex and age band
  • DHIS2 export keyed by FMOH indicator code
  • Notifiable-disease alerts and the weekly IDSR return
  • Word and Excel exports
DashboardsA different home screen per role, arranged by the person who has to use it.
  • Home screen tailored to each role — receptionist, nurse, doctor, pharmacist, and manager each see different things
  • Staff can move, resize, and hide widgets
  • Facility-wide templates a manager can set for a role
A clinician in a white coat using the staff app on a phone

Platform

The parts that hold across branches: messaging, privacy, data exchange, AI assistance, mobile and localisation.

NotificationsTelegram, WhatsApp, SMS and push from your own templates, with proof of what arrived.
  • Appointment reminders and facility messages
  • Telegram, WhatsApp, SMS, and mobile push
  • Editable message templates
  • Quiet hours
  • Delivery log showing what was sent and whether it arrived
Multi-Branch & Multi-FacilitySeveral facilities on one system, separated by default and administered from one place.
  • Multiple facilities on one system, fully separated
  • Branches, departments, wards, rooms, and chairs
  • Per-facility operating hours, settings and branding
  • Referral directory and referral letters in both directions
  • Central administration console
Security & PrivacyEach role sees only its own work, and every action carries a name and a timestamp.
  • Role-based access — each staff member sees only what their job needs
  • Facility-defined custom roles
  • Sensitive charts (HIV, mental health, confidential SRH) sealed, with break-the-glass access
  • Access monitoring that flags unusual record reads
  • Full audit trail of who did what
  • Two-factor sign-in, lockout after failed attempts, and idle screen lock
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Data ExchangeRecords that can leave the building in a standard shape when the patient or the system needs them to.
  • FHIR R4 read access to patients, encounters, observations, results and prescriptions
  • Clinical documents in and out as CDA
  • E-prescriptions an outside pharmacy can verify
  • Client registry with Fayda national ID
Bringing Your Records OverStart with your history, not an empty system.
  • Bulk patient and staff import from Excel or CSV
  • Visit history import, matched to whatever layout your register uses
  • Review before anything is written, and roll back a batch
AI AssistantAdd-onCoding suggestions and note-taking shortcuts that keep the clinician in the chair.
  • Diagnosis code suggestions
  • Reusable text snippets for faster note-taking
  • Clinical chat assistant
  • Automated insights
Mobile AppThe facility in a pocket for staff, and still readable when the connection drops.
  • Patients, appointments, queue and triage on the phone
  • Invoices, payments, and payment proof capture
  • Medical records and lab results
  • Field screens for postnatal and growth-monitoring visits
  • Booking request triage
  • Stock lookup and price list
  • Payslips
  • Reports and analytics
  • Works offline for viewing
LocalisationBuilt for Ethiopian health facilities rather than translated for them.
  • Ethiopian calendar and time throughout, or Gregorian per person
  • Ethiopian tax and payroll rules
  • MOH facility tiers, national forms and the national reporting calendar

Not every facility needs every feature

A three-room general practice, a health center and a hospital with a theatre switch on very different parts of this list. Tell us how your facility runs and we will show you the part you would actually use — and what it costs.