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Glossary ​

TermMeaning
Control planeVerabase Cloud: platform-admin and platform-api. Customers, licences, grants, health. No clinical data.
TenantOne customer, with one database. Usually one hospital group.
OrganisationA legal or management group inside a tenant.
FacilityA physical site where care happens. Has its own timezone.
Licence planWhat a tenant has bought: Starter, Standard, Professional or Enterprise. It caps which modules can be granted.
Module grantTurning a licensed module on for a tenant. Grants become the tenant server's installation plan.
Facility AdminThe hospital's own administrator in facility-web. The first one is created at activation.
QueueToday's patients: Waiting → With nurse → With doctor → Done.
Visit / encounterOne episode of care. Notes, vitals and orders hang off it.
MRNThe hospital's local patient number (e.g. MRN-000065).
NEWS2National Early Warning Score 2. Computed from RR, SpO₂, temperature, systolic BP, heart rate and AVPU.
SOAPSubjective · Objective · Assessment · Plan note structure.
Allergy statusAn explicit statement: No known allergies, or recorded allergies. "Not recorded" means nobody asked.
Allergy gateA prescribing check that refuses a drug matching a recorded allergy by name or drug class unless a reason is given.
MARMedication Administration Record: the ward drug chart and round.
Verification (pharmacy)The pharmacist's check of dose, route and frequency before dispensing.
Verification (lab)A supervisor's release of a technician's result.
Dispense queuePrescriptions waiting at the pharmacy counter. Filled automatically when Provider orders integration is on.
Kobo1/100 of a naira. Some billing inputs are in kobo today (gap).
Audit trailTamper-evident, hash-chained record of actions. The platform has one; each hospital has its own.

Roles in a hospital ​

RoleWhat it is forLands on
Facility AdminConfigure and govern the hospitalDashboard
Front DeskRegister patients, run the queue, take paymentsPatients → Schedule
ProviderConsult, order, prescribe, signClinical
NurseObservations, nursing notes, drug round, bedsClinical → Nursing tasks
Lab TechnicianWork the lab queue: collect, receive, resultLab
Lab SupervisorVerify and release resultsLab
Radiology TechnologistSchedule, perform and report imagingRadiology
PharmacistVerify orders, dispense, stock, controlled drugsPharmacy
Billing OfficerInvoices, payments, claimsMy patient board / Revenue
Theatre CoordinatorProcedure schedules, rooms, perioperative worklists—
CSSD TechnicianInstrument sets, sterilisation cycles, load traceability—
Transport CoordinatorAmbulance and patient transport—
Laundry CoordinatorWard linen requests and delivery—
HousekeepingEnvironmental-services work orders—
Mortuary OfficerReceive, safeguard, release the deceased—
Accreditation CoordinatorRegulator evidence packs and readiness—
Patient KioskSelf-service check-in deviceKiosk

Source: verabase-client/packages/permissions/src/index.ts. "Lands on" was verified for the roles in FAC-OPD-01.

Platform roles ​

The control-plane seed creates 6 platform roles and 49 permissions. The walks in this guide use platform_super_admin. A least-privilege matrix for support and implementer roles is on the catalogue (CP-06 onward).

Modules ​

22 modules are in the catalogue. Dependencies are enforced at grant time (CP-02 step 4).

ModuleKeyTierNeeds
Verabase CorecoreCore—
Access & Front DeskaccessStandardcore
Clinical NotesclinicalStandardcore, access
SchedulingschedulingStandardcore, access
BillingbillingStandardcore
InventoryinventoryStandardcore
PharmacypharmacyStandardcore, inventory
LablabStandardcore, clinical
InpatientinpatientStandardcore, access, clinical
Medication Administration (MAR)medication_administrationStandardcore, clinical, access
Sterile Processing (CSSD)sterile_processingStandardcore, clinical
LaundrylaundryStandardcore, inpatient
Ambulance & TransporttransportStandardcore, access
Accreditation EvidenceaccreditationStandardcore, reporting
ReportingreportingStandardcore
NotificationsnotificationsStandardcore
Device Managementdevice_managementStandardcore
Offline SyncsyncStandardcore
AnalyticsanalyticsPremiumcore, reporting
ClaimsclaimsPremiumcore, billing
IntegrationsintegrationsPremiumcore
Patient Portalpatient_portalPremiumcore

As shown in platform-admin's Module provisioning on 2026-09-23.