The SkyLIMS+ Doctor App is Mukon’s next-generation mobile application for clinicians — a simplified, focused experience for looking up results and placing orders, wherever the doctor happens to be.
The app captures and stores requisition data sent from SkyLIMS as it becomes available, allowing it to run independently from SkyLIMS.
Our distributed design approach means your referring clinicians can still access results during SkyLIMS maintenance or offline periods — improving their experience and keeping service disruptions to a minimum.
Three core workflows, redesigned around what a busy referring clinician actually needs.
Easy navigation between patients, with focus on new activity and quick indicators on unread results. Patient events combine both episodes and orders in one simplified view.
A new, interactive cumulative view lets the clinician see a true cumulative of the patient’s results, with the ability to focus on a specific test and its full result history.
A simplified workflow guides the clinician through placing an order for a new or existing patient, without slowing them down.
The laboratory can send notifications and messages directly to their clinicians through the app.
Clinicians can add patients or requisitions to a focused list, for quick access and special attention.
Easy, secure login with biometrics — no need to re-enter a password every time.
Enhanced application performance and security, built on modern, actively maintained foundations.
Settings to tailor the app’s behaviour to each clinician’s needs.
An ongoing roadmap of new functionality, aimed squarely at improving the clinician’s experience.
To make the app more affordable and pave the way for more frequent updates, it will be deployed as a single SkyLIMS+ application in the app stores — managed from Mukon’s own developer accounts on Google Play and the Apple App Store.
This focused approach significantly speeds up development cycles and ensures your clients can get the newest features sooner. It also means Mukon manages the app store administration for you, and removes the individual Apple developer licence that laboratories currently pay for.
Your referring clinicians will download the SkyLIMS+ app from the app store. Once they register and log in, they’ll be presented with your laboratory’s own branding and reports.
If a clinician is registered at more than one laboratory, they’re shown a lab-selection screen after logging in. The laboratory is set for that session at login — they can’t switch between laboratories while already in the app.
The single, shared SkyLIMS+ app lets us deliver enhanced functionality to your clients faster and more cost-efficiently. Some of what we’re considering for future releases:
Clinician-defined test reflex conditions, based on test results.
Clinician-defined test profiles to order multiple tests with one tap — e.g. a “Diabetes profile” covering a Lipogram, Glucose, and HbA1C.
Fund-dependent chronic-disease-management guidance, to help advise the doctor on requesting the right tests at the right time.
AI-assisted test suggestions, based on the tests already selected.
The ability to integrate with third-party applications.
Plans are subject to re-assessment by Mukon based on the requirements of our clients.
Mukon will host and maintain the data and API. While this adds more responsibility for us, it greatly simplifies maintenance and gives us better control and consistency — allowing our infrastructure team to focus on best practices we can control directly.
Store deployment is costly in terms of developer time, and there are frequent issues with changes to store rules and requirements. Deploying independently for each Mukon client at interface-licence cost isn’t feasible long term, so instead we do a single deployment that can connect to any client. This greatly reduces the number of in-store applications we need to maintain, opening up more time for development instead.
If a clinician is registered at multiple laboratories, they’re shown a lab-selection screen after logging in. The laboratory (tenant) is set at that login and can’t be switched while already in the application — they would need to log in again to change laboratories.
More information still to come: the clinician registration process, beta testing plans, and more FAQs.
Get in touch with Mukon Informatics to learn more about the SkyLIMS+ Doctor App and its development progress.