SENAITE
A fully open-source LIMS to streamline laboratory operations, ensuring efficient management of lab orders, sample processing, analysis, and result verification.
- Flexible laboratory information management system (LIMS) for clinical and other labs
- Lab orders placed in OpenMRS appear in SENAITE automatically, and verified results flow back to the patient chart
- Sample registration, partitioning and barcode labels
- Configurable analysis services, methods, specifications and reference ranges
- Multi-step result verification with full audit log
- Worksheets to organise bench work and instrument runs
- Instrument import interfaces for analyser results
- Quality control with reference samples and control charts
- PDF result reports and invoicing per client
- Multilingual, with a JSON REST API
SENAITE is an open-source project led by RIDING BYTES (Austria) and naralabs (Spain), with contributions from a worldwide community. It is a modern successor to Bika LIMS, rebuilt on the Python-based Plone/Zope framework. The software is released under the GPLv2 licence, and the core team also offers commercial support and hosting.
- SENAITE is Ozone's default lab system, connected to OpenMRS through Ozone's integration layer (EIP routes); orders and results are exchanged automatically.
- Every orderable test in OpenMRS needs a matching analysis service in SENAITE; keep both catalogues in sync through Ozone configuration.
- The OpenMRS lab order basket is configured to send orders to SENAITE; patients are created in SENAITE as clients/patients on first order.
- Data sits in the Zope object database (ZODB), not SQL: back it up with SENAITE's own tools and use Ozone's restore profile to recover.
- Reporting on lab data is easiest through Ozone Analytics/Superset rather than querying SENAITE directly.
- SENAITE and OpenELIS Global are alternative lab options; choose one per facility.