# Features

> Every feature in Bloom Medicine — patient records, queue and booking, EMR, laboratory, pharmacy, billing, inventory, payroll, reporting, notifications, multi-branch, and the staff mobile app.

Source: https://www.medicine.et/features  
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The complete shipped feature catalogue: 99 features across 6 areas. Nothing on this list is aspirational.

## The patient journey

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

### Patient Management

One record per person, findable in seconds and impossible to duplicate by accident.

- Patient registration with clinic card numbers
- Fast patient lookup by name, phone, or card number
- Duplicate-patient warning at registration
- Full patient history in one place
- Online self-registration form patients can fill before arriving

Deep dive: [Patient Tracking](https://www.medicine.et/modules/patient-tracking)

### Front Desk & Patient Flow

One 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
- View own queue or the whole clinic's day
- Walk-ins and scheduled patients handled the same way

Deep dive: [Queue & Appointments](https://www.medicine.et/modules/queue-appointments)

### Appointments & Booking

Booking against real staff availability, including requests patients raise themselves.

- Appointment scheduling with staff availability
- Public online booking page for patients
- Booking request review — accept and schedule, or decline
- Waitlist
- Double-booking prevention

Deep dive: [Queue & Appointments](https://www.medicine.et/modules/queue-appointments)

## Clinical work

Consultation, lab, procedures, dental and pharmacy, all recorded against the same visit.

### Consultation & Clinical Records

Structured charting the clinic shapes itself, filled in during the consultation.

- Digital patient charts
- Diagnoses with ICD-10 coding
- Prescriptions
- Vitals and clinical data captured before the doctor sees the patient
- Custom form templates the clinic designs itself
- Attach photos, scans, and documents

Deep dive: [Electronic Medical Records](https://www.medicine.et/modules/electronic-medical-records)

### Laboratory

Ordering from the room, a worksheet for the bench, and results that keep their corrections.

- Lab test catalogue
- Test ordering from the consultation room
- Lab worksheet — technicians see their day's work in one list
- Preliminary, final, and corrected results, with corrections tracked and originals kept
- Attach result documents and images

### Procedures & Services

A priced service catalogue that orders, records and bills like the lab does.

- Service catalogue with categories and pricing
- Service ordering and result recording
- Same result workflow as the lab

### Dental (optional — enabled per clinic)

A full tooth chart for dental clinics — switched on per clinic, invisible to the rest.

- Tooth chart with history
- Per-tooth procedures
- Treatment plans that turn into bills
- Gum (periodontal) charting

### Pharmacy

A dispensing window that knows the prescription, the stock and whether the visit is paid.

- Prescription queue by patient visit
- Dispensing with stock deduction and pricing
- Partial supply, substitution, cancellation
- Over-the-counter sales at the drug window
- Accepts prescriptions written at other clinics
- Will not release medicine until the visit is paid
- Prints prescriptions for medicines the clinic does not stock

## Money and stock

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

### Billing & Payments

One 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 clinic cash counters, each seeing only its own money
- Point-of-sale register with barcode scan, product grid, and running ticket
- Credit, part payment, and insurance/scheme coverage
- Service cards (prepaid visit packages) with usage tracking
- Payment proof capture

Deep dive: [Billing & Invoicing](https://www.medicine.et/modules/billing-invoicing)

### Inventory & Stock

Purchasing, receiving and consumption in one ledger, so the screen matches the shelf.

- Products, categories, variants, suppliers
- Purchase orders and goods receiving
- Stock adjustments and bulk corrections
- Separate pharmacy shelf and clinic store
- Consumables used per patient visit, deducted automatically
- Reorder alerts

Deep dive: [Inventory Management](https://www.medicine.et/modules/inventory-management)

## Your team

Rosters, attendance and Ethiopian payroll for the people running the clinic.

### Staff & HR

Who works when, who is on leave, and who actually turned up.

- Staff profiles and specialties
- Which staff treat patients and which do not
- Shift scheduling
- Leave and time-off requests
- Attendance tracking, with fingerprint/biometric device support

Deep dive: [Staff Management](https://www.medicine.et/modules/staff-management)

### Payroll

Ethiopian 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 statutory returns.

### Reports & Analytics

Clinical, financial and queue reporting, including the returns government asks for.

- Financial, clinical, operational, and queue reports
- Morbidity reporting (conditions by age band and sex) for government returns
- Excel export
- Clinicians see their own performance figures
- Charts and dashboards each staff member can rearrange to suit their work

### Dashboards

A different home screen per role, arranged by the person who has to use it.

- Home screen tailored to each role — receptionist, doctor, pharmacist, and manager each see different things
- Staff can move, resize, and hide widgets
- Clinic-wide templates a manager can set for a role

## Platform

The parts that hold across branches: messaging, access control, AI assistance, mobile and localisation.

### Notifications

WhatsApp, SMS and push from your own templates, with proof of what arrived.

- Appointment reminders and clinic messages
- WhatsApp, SMS, and mobile push
- Clinic-editable message templates
- Quiet hours
- Delivery log showing what was sent and whether it arrived

### Multi-Branch & Multi-Clinic

Several clinics on one system, separated by default and administered from one place.

- Multiple clinics on one system, fully separated
- Branches, locations, rooms, and chairs
- Per-clinic operating hours and settings
- Central administration console

### Security & Access Control

Each 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
- Clinic-defined custom roles
- Menu shaped to the role, so daily tasks are one click away
- Full audit trail of who did what
- Secure login and session management

Deep dive: [Staff Management](https://www.medicine.et/modules/staff-management)

### AI Assistant

Coding 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 App

The clinic in a pocket for staff, and still readable when the connection drops.

- Patients, appointments, and queue on the phone
- Invoices, payments, and payment proof capture
- Medical records and lab results
- Booking request triage
- Stock lookup and price list
- Payslips
- Dental charts (view only)
- Reports and analytics
- Works offline for viewing

### Localisation

Built for Ethiopian clinics rather than translated for them.

- Ethiopian calendar and time throughout
- Ethiopian tax and payroll rules
