| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 資訊管理學系暨研究所 === 103 === The accuracy of clinical diagnoses is important at all levels of hospitals. Laboratory test reports offer one of the foundations upon which physicians make medical decisions.
The workflow of clinical laboratories can be divided by tasks into three stages, namely pre-examination, examination, and post-examination. The tasks in the pre-examination stage are collection, preservation, processing, and delivery of samples. The main task in the examination stage is to analyze the test while maintaining the analysis quality. The tasks in the post-examination stage are to validate the accuracy of the analysis results and to transmit data to laboratory information systems (LIS). Each process and step in these stages has a decisive effect on the analysis results. The analysis results can help physicians provide the most effective treatments only when each step of the test has been carried out with no error. In 1990s, there has been a rapid growth of laboratory automation facilities, especially in the US, European nations, and Japan. With the increasing prevalence of these automation facilities, the work efficiency at clinical laboratories has also improved. The maintenance and quality control of automation facilities has also become a new issue for clinical laboratories. Without regular and proper maintenance, the accuracy of the analysis results generated by these facilities will be affected. Therefore, quality control in clinical laboratories has been a common goal of all laboratories in recent years. Through quality control, they can maintain the accuracy of analysis results and further speed up the release of reports, improve the healthcare quality, and promote doctor-patient relationships.
Laboratory auto-verification system is a system that all clinical laboratories seek to build. By integrating the existing real-time quality management system and using ASTM protocol, the two systems can be connected via RS-232. In addition to providing real-time diagnosis of transmission quality, the system can achieve automatic verification of test reports, improve the report release efficiency, and shorten the required time of laboratory tests at a minimum cost.
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