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MicroBench

Culture and sensitivity, read day by day — and the isolates the antibiogram was always promised.

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What it is

Microbiology has a shape no analyte result can hold: a specimen goes onto media, sits in an incubator, and is read at 24, 48 and 72 hours before anybody knows the answer. MicroBench keeps that shape. Every plate read is its own row, so one read on Monday and silence on Wednesday is visible rather than discovered when somebody asks for the report. What grows becomes a named isolate with a grid of antibiotic against S, I or R and the method it was read by, and the grid has to exist before a person can verify it. Verified isolates are what the unit antibiogram and the infection team’s outbreak line lists are built from — the first real source either has ever had.

Who uses it: Built for: Hospitals
Reads: Lab orders, patient names
Writes: Cultures, plate reads, isolates, sensitivity grids, microbiology reports
Never: It does not interpret a zone diameter for you: the S, I or R is the microbiologist’s call, and the method it was read by is recorded beside it.
Access: Only people whose role includes it — the clinic owner decides who
Your data: Full PHI. Hosted in Boston, United States. On uninstall: Cultures, isolates and reports stay in the record.

How it works

Receive the specimenLog what arrived, from whom and when it was taken. It gets the lab’s own accession number and the barcode that goes on the report.
Plate it, then read itRecord the media, then the read at 24, 48 and 72 hours. The board shows how far each plate has got, so nothing sits in the incubator unread.
Name what grew and test itAdd the organism, then the antibiotics with S, I or R and the method. Verify it — that is the act that lets it reach the antibiogram.
Issue the reportThe report is the grid: patient, specimen, the day-wise reads, each organism and its sensitivities, signed and filed.

Rules it keeps

What it does not do, by design. A listing with only benefits is an advertisement.

It does not interpret a zone diameter for you: the S, I or R is the microbiologist’s call, and the method it was read by is recorded beside it.

It will not verify an isolate with an empty grid, and it will not let a verified grid be extended quietly — an antibiogram built from isolates nobody tested is worse than no antibiogram.

AI in MicroBench

AskQuestions about what is on screen — “What needs attention in MicroBench today?” — answered with the records it read.

DraftSummaries and notes for the team, marked as drafts until a person signs.

Every answer shows its sources. Nothing AI writes is saved until a person accepts it.

See it on screen

MicroBench — Microbiology — Run cultures day by day and read the sensitivity grid — 01Microbiology — Run cultures day by day and read the sensitivity gridCaptured from the running demo clinic

01Microbiology — Run cultures day by day and read the sensitivity gridCaptured from the running demo clinic

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Questions clinics ask

What does MicroBench do?

Culture and sensitivity, read day by day — and the isolates the antibiogram was always promised. Microbiology has a shape no analyte result can hold: a specimen goes onto media, sits in an incubator, and is read at 24, 48 and 72 hours before anybody knows the answer. MicroBench keeps that shape. Every plate read is its own row, so one read on Monday and silence on Wednesday is visible rather than discovered when somebody asks for the report. What grows becomes a named isolate with a grid of antibiotic against S, I or R and the method it was read by, and the grid has to exist before a person can verify it. Verified isolates are what the unit antibiogram and the infection team’s outbreak line lists are built from — the first real source either has ever had.

What data does MicroBench read and write?

MicroBench reads lab orders, patient names and writes cultures, plate reads, isolates, sensitivity grids, microbiology reports. Its data class is Full PHI. Every app works on the same patient record — nothing is copied into a silo.

What does MicroBench deliberately not do?

It does not interpret a zone diameter for you: the S, I or R is the microbiologist’s call, and the method it was read by is recorded beside it. It will not verify an isolate with an empty grid, and it will not let a verified grid be extended quietly — an antibiogram built from isolates nobody tested is worse than no antibiogram.

What happens to our data if we uninstall MicroBench?

Cultures, isolates and reports stay in the record.

Is MicroBench available today?

Yes — MicroBench is live in clinics today. Set up your practice on MedAppz and install it from your dashboard.

Want to see MicroBench running on your own patients?

Tell us what you run and we will show you this app inside a practice shaped like yours — or answer the question the page above did not.

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