Proficiency testing & EQA platform
EqasOnline is the end-to-end platform for PT providers and the laboratories that take part, from clinical EQA to construction materials, soil and veterinary testing. Plan rounds, ship test items, collect results online, score them with ISO 13528 robust statistics and release reports and certificates, all from one system.
Wondering whether your field fits? See where EqasOnline fits.
The problem we solve
The science behind proficiency testing is rigorous. The operations around it usually are not, and that is where transcription errors, late reports and audit findings come from.
TodayResults arrive as emails, scans and spreadsheets, and someone on your team re-types every one.
With EqasOnline: Labs enter results in their own portal, against your test's units and parameters, before a deadline you set. Implausible values are queried as they are entered.
TodayAssigned values and scores live in a workbook that only one person fully understands.
With EqasOnline: One engine applies ISO 13528 methods the same way every round and shows its working: n, assigned value, robust SD and uncertainty.
TodayPer-lab reports and certificates are assembled by hand, so labs wait weeks to hear how they did.
With EqasOnline: Each lab's reports are generated from the evaluated round, and one click tells every participant they are ready.
TodayNobody can say which labs have their samples, or in what condition, without phoning around.
With EqasOnline: Dispatch details, tracking numbers and receipt confirmations sit in one view, and each lab records the condition its sample arrived in.
TodayQueries, complaints and appeals are scattered across inboxes, with no clean record for the assessor.
With EqasOnline: Complaints, appeals and corrective actions are recorded against the round, tracked to an outcome and kept for your next assessment.
TodayLabs get a PDF once a round, with no history and no view of how labs on the same method did.
With EqasOnline: Labs see their z-scores, peer groups and trends across rounds on their own dashboard.
How it works
Every step of a round happens in EqasOnline, so the data your statistics use is the data your labs entered, and every decision along the way is on record.
Build quantitative or qualitative tests with your own measurands, units and sample types, the fields labs fill in (such as instrument, method and reagent) and plausibility ranges.
Programs & roundsLabs register with your provider code or on your own registration page; you approve them and assign them to rounds. Each round gets its dates, samples and an announcement email.
Programs & roundsCheck homogeneity and stability before dispatch, then record courier and tracking numbers. Labs confirm receipt and the condition each sample arrived in.
Sample managementLabs enter results in their own portal before the deadline. Reminders go out automatically to labs that haven't submitted.
Results & evaluationOne server-side engine calculates assigned values and scores the same way every round, with peer groups by method and outliers flagged for review.
Results & evaluationRelease reports to every lab with one notification, then work through complaints, appeals and corrective actions, each tracked to an outcome.
Reports & certificatesFields
Build schemes from quantitative or qualitative tests with your own measurands, units and sample types. Participants are scored against a robust consensus of their results, following ISO 13528.
Construction materials
Concrete, cement, aggregates, soil mechanics
Soil, fertiliser and agriculture
Nutrients, pH, organic carbon
Veterinary diagnostics
Your own tests, units and sample types
Presence/absence microbiology
Detected or not detected
Clinical EQA
Clinical biochemistry, haematology, immunoassay, urinalysis and serology
Specialist clinical schemes (HLA typing, crossmatch, HLA antibodies and immunophenotyping) have their own scoring and report templates, listed in the report library.
Where EqasOnline fits, field by fieldPT scheme directory
Search 1,784 schemes from 144 providers in 47 countries, by analyte, sample type, field and country.
For PT & EQA providers
For national and regional PT and EQA programmes, specialist schemes and organisations setting up their first one, in clinical and other fields. Your team runs the scheme from the provider console; participating laboratories work in their own portal, on the same records.
Taking part in a scheme as a laboratory? Log in to the lab portal or read the lab guide.
Standards & security
Proficiency testing feeds accreditation decisions, so the software behind it has to stand up to scrutiny. EqasOnline is designed around the standards your scheme and your labs are assessed against.
Accreditation is granted to a PT provider or laboratory by an accreditation body. EqasOnline is the software you operate with; it does not grant accreditation, but it helps you meet the requirements and keep the evidence.
One-page overview
What EqasOnline covers for a proficiency testing provider, on one page you can pass to your team.
FAQ
More answers, for providers and for labs, in the FAQ, or ask us directly.
Proficiency testing (PT), called external quality assessment (EQA) in medical laboratories, sends the same test items to many laboratories, compares each lab's results with an assigned value and scores its performance. Accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025, and to ISO 15189 for medical laboratories, expects labs to take part in proficiency testing or other interlaboratory comparisons.
Organisations that run proficiency testing or EQA schemes, in clinical and other fields, run their rounds from the provider console. The laboratories taking part use the lab portal.
Schemes scored against a robust consensus, such as construction materials, soil and agriculture, veterinary diagnostics, presence/absence microbiology and clinical EQA. The proficiency testing software page shows the fit field by field.
ISO 13528 methods, applied the same way every round by one server-side engine. The results and evaluation page lists each method and its thresholds.
No. Accreditation is granted to a PT provider by an accreditation body. EqasOnline supports your ISO/IEC 17043 work and keeps the records an assessor asks to see.
Yes. Book a 30-minute demo and we will run one full round in both the provider console and the lab portal, from item check to issued report.
In a 30-minute demo we run one full round in both the provider console and the lab portal, from item check to issued report, on your own scheme structure.