BackBone Laboratory is a stand alone module or may be integrated with the rest of the Backbone Health Information Suite. This module is comprehensive in its management of a laboratory. A Lab may opt to use all the available facilities or just the screens they need. This module includes registration at the lab front office, task assignment of procedures to individuals in the lab, specimen collection and handling, department head review, individual areas for bio-chemistry, microbiology, pathology, and results reporting in a paper and electronic format. Facilities for integrating medical equipment with the module and auto-reporting of results are also available. When integrated with the rest of the Backbone suite, many of these tasks and results can be made enterprise wide.