Level 1 · Guided smartphone
Guided capture through a phone at the eyepiece. For limited use and validation work rather than as the routine clinical configuration.
Accepting reviewer applications and pilot laboratories · Africa-first
Specialist morphology, wherever the film is.
HemoExchange connects licensed laboratories with credentialled blood morphology reviewers: a structured referral, a verified reviewer, and an authorised report, inside your own governed pathway.
Reach experienced morphology review through a governed, auditable referral instead of an informal favour. You keep the patient relationship and the final clinical decision throughout. No scanner required to begin.
Apply your morphology judgement remotely, within a defined and authorised scope of practice. You set your own fee and expected turnaround, and you accept only the work that matches your expertise. No bidding, and no price competition.
What is checked before anybody reviews a film
Verification first, convenience second.
Registration
Verified with the regulator
Professional registration and practising status recorded against the issuing authority in the reviewer’s own country of registration.
Indemnity
Current cover, recorded
Professional indemnity verified and dated, and watched for expiry rather than checked once at joining.
Competence
Assessed for the scope
Morphology competence assessed for a specific scope of review. Registration alone is never authorisation.
Authorisation
Checked on every case
Eligibility is re-checked when a laboratory sees a shortlist, again at selection, and again at the moment a report is signed.
The pressure on morphology
Morphology expertise is not always available where and when it is needed.
Blood film morphology remains a judgement-based discipline that depends on experienced people being available at the right moment. Across many African laboratory settings that experience is concentrated in a small number of centres, while the films needing it arrive everywhere.
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Staffing gaps
Vacancies, absence, leave and recruitment difficulty can leave departments without sufficient experienced morphology cover.
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Out-of-hours requirements
Films needing an experienced eye do not confine themselves to core hours, and overnight or weekend cover is not always available.
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Complex morphology
Unusual or difficult films can call for a level of experience that is not held within every department at every moment.
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Reporting backlogs
Workload peaks can extend turnaround times, particularly where morphology review sits with a small number of individuals.
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Informal referral
Difficult films are often shared by phone photograph or messaging app, outside any governed pathway and with no record of who reviewed what.
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Uneven access to experience
Access to experienced morphology professionals varies considerably between facilities, cities and regions, and rarely follows where the difficult films actually are.
The referral pathway
A governed referral pathway, end to end.
Five steps, each one recorded. The platform decides who is eligible; your laboratory decides who reviews; the reviewer decides whether the material is adequate; and the report comes back to you.
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Step 1
The laboratory identifies a case
A licensed laboratory prepares and examines the film, and determines that specialist morphology input is needed.
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Step 2
A structured referral is submitted
The laboratory captures the film at a registered station and submits the referral with the clinical context the reviewer needs: a count, analyser flags, and a coded reason.
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Step 3
The laboratory chooses an eligible reviewer
HemoExchange shows only reviewers whose credentials are verified and whose authorisation covers that scope, with their stated fee and turnaround. Your laboratory chooses.
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Step 4
An expert report is returned
The reviewer confirms the material is adequate (or asks for more fields), reviews it, and signs an authorised morphology report.
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Step 5
The laboratory completes its pathway
The report returns into your governed referral pathway for local clinical handling and final release under your own authorised process.
HemoExchange does not release the patient result. The laboratory owns the patient relationship and completes its own governed process. Live clinical use begins with each laboratory once that laboratory’s pilot governance is recorded: the approved report wording, the critical-result policy, the retention period and the storage decision are held as data, and the platform will not accept clinical material until they are.
For laboratories
Specialist morphology input, inside your own pathway.
Reach specialist morphology expertise through a governed, auditable referral instead of an informal favour. Your laboratory keeps the patient relationship and the final clinical decision throughout.
Specialist second opinions
Reviewers with demonstrable morphology experience for difficult peripheral blood films, beyond your own department.
Support during expertise gaps
A route to experienced review when the person who would normally give it is absent, unavailable or not yet appointed.
A structured referral, not a message
A referral carrying the clinical context and images a reviewer actually needs, instead of a photograph sent by messaging app.
A governed audit trail
A durable record of what was referred, who reviewed it, what they were authorised to review, and what they reported.
No scanner required to begin
A laboratory can request specialist input without first purchasing whole-slide scanning equipment.
You choose the reviewer
HemoExchange decides who is eligible. You compare turnaround and fee among those reviewers, and you choose.
Your pathway, your release
The report returns to you. Final clinical handling and release remain entirely within your laboratory’s authorised process.
A laboratory is onboarded after its licence is recorded and verified with the licensing authority in its own country. Apply to join as a laboratory and we will take you through it.
For reviewers
Credentialled review, within a governed network.
Appropriately qualified morphology professionals can contribute their expertise remotely, within a defined and authorised scope of practice. The reviewer network is open to registered laboratory and medical professionals with demonstrated morphology competence, whatever the regulator in their jurisdiction. Competence and governance come before convenience.
A defined scope of practice
Referrals reach you only where your authorisation covers that scope of review, checked on every case.
Your fee, your turnaround
You publish what you charge and how long you expect to take. A laboratory sees both before it chooses. There is no bidding and no price competition.
Accept or decline
Take only the referrals that match your expertise and capacity, and say plainly when you are unavailable.
Adequacy is yours to judge
You confirm the material is adequate before reporting, and can ask for further fields or information first.
Your own record
Every report you sign stays findable under your own name and registration, with what the laboratory did with it.
Paid for the work
What you are owed, what is held and why, and what has been paid: visible to you, per currency, never converted.
Registration alone is not authorisation. Verified professional registration, demonstrated morphology competence, current indemnity and an explicit authorisation for the scope of review are all required, and each is checked independently. Apply to join the reviewer network. We will ask for your evidence and verify it with the issuing authority.
Image capture
Digital blood films, without requiring a scanner first.
A referral is only as good as the images it carries. HemoExchange takes a practical, standardised approach to digital blood film capture that laboratories at different resource levels can actually adopt, rather than one that assumes equipment most departments do not have.
Level 2 · Capture station
A standardised microscope-and-camera capture station, registered and quality-checked. The preferred initial clinical configuration.
Level 3 · Automated imaging
Automated or whole-slide imaging, where a laboratory already has it or later chooses to invest. An option, not a prerequisite.
Every image set is attributable to a registered capture station, a named operator and the sitting it was taken in, and a reviewer must confirm the material is adequate before reporting. What counts as a complete set of images is a clinical decision, approved per scope and recorded: the platform holds no default and will tell you plainly when no requirement has been approved rather than implying a set is sufficient.
Governance
Built around verification, accountability and clinical governance.
HemoExchange is a product of Optymum SS (UK) Ltd, built Africa-first: for the connections, the equipment and the regulators that laboratories on the continent actually have, rather than assuming otherwise and adapting later.
Jurisdiction is data
Country, regulator and licensing body are recorded per organisation and per credential. A licence is verified against the authority in its own country, never a generic one.
Minimal patient identity
What a referral may say about a patient is decided per scope of review, and anything not permitted is refused rather than quietly stored. There is nowhere to put a patient name.
An audit trail that outlives the data
Who referred, who reviewed, who was authorised and who looked at an image: recorded, and retained beyond the material it describes.
Data residency
Where clinical images are stored is a data-protection decision recorded before any clinical material is accepted.
Critical findings escalate
A critical morphology finding opens an escalation in the same moment the report is signed, and the referral cannot be closed while it is unresolved.
No performance claims
The platform measures what it actually recorded and says so. It computes no accuracy or concordance figure, and will report “not enough data” for as long as that is the truth.
Two ways in
Join the network, or bring your laboratory.
Both start with an application, because both end in verification. Tell us who you are and we will come back to you.
Expert reviewer
For registered laboratory and medical professionals with demonstrated blood film morphology competence. We will ask what you are registered as, with which authority, and what you want to review. We then verify it.
Join as expert reviewerLaboratory
For licensed laboratories that want specialist morphology review inside their own governed pathway. We will ask about your licence, your volumes and how you photograph a film today.
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