A computerized data management system for the clinical laboratory

Abstract

This report describes the computerized clinical laboratory data management system developed at the University of Alabama Hospitals Clinical Laboratory. The system uses the computer's data management capabilities to assist the laboratory in handling patient and laboratory data associated with the total processing of laboratory requisitions from their receipt to the production of a patient's cumulative test results. It supports all sections of the laboratory including the blood bank. It primary objectives are to reduce the clereical workload, reduce errors, decrease turn-around-time, and produce a patient's cumulative summary test results.