DESIGN DECISION 05
EXAM RESULTS PIPELINE
We couldn't integrate every lab.
So we changed where results land.
Medstation works with many partner clinics, each with
its own system and upload method. Integrating with all
of them was not viable. But every one of them already
sent results the same way: by fax, delivered to
Medstation as an email.
BEFORE · FOUR MANUAL STEPS PER RESULT
Partner clinics
Each with its own system
Fax
Sent to Medstation
Email inbox
Fax arrives as email
Printed
By the front desk
Scanned
Back into digital
Attached
Manually, to the record
Relayed
By phone or WhatsApp
MANUAL
MANUAL
MANUAL
MANUAL
WHERE WE LOOKED INSTEAD
Every result already passed through one inbox.
We changed what happens after it, not before it.
AFTER · ZERO MANUAL STEPS
Partner clinics
Nothing changes for them
Fax
Sent to Medstation
Email inbox
Same entry point
Intercepted
Email caught on arrival
Parsed
Result read from the file
Matched
By name and birth date
In the app
Visible to the patient
ENGINEERING SOLUTION
Parse the inbox instead of integrating every partner system.
The composite key from Decision 01 is what makes the match possible.
Printing and scanning disappeared. Results reach the patient's record without a person in the middle.