Additional Requirements : Laboratories

• Laboratory:
  • Make use of most generic modules, and particularly the module dealing with Activities:
    • Work on samples, typically blood samples.  Lab samples are often collected and registered at several locations, not necessarily in the lab.
    • Need access to definitions of the available services and their properties.
    • Worklist are very important and may need to be extended at multiple levels:
      • One request may involve several samples.
      • One sample may be distributed to several work teams.
      • A work team can perform several tests. 
      • This implies the need to be able to look at the information from different points of views, as global demands, work table, type of analysis, patient with history of previous analysis, ...
    • Data acquisition:
      • By keyboard,
      • By automated interfaces, as far as automated equipments are available.
    • Quality control procedures:
      • Control on groups of analysis.
      • Statistics and global reports on activities.
    • Medical conclusions:
      • Conclusions in the scope of the received sample(s).  For example the concentration of blood sugar.  In general not much concern about the global situation of the patient.  
    • Reports:
      • Integration is important.  Reports must be made available to the requester and the care team, as soon as possible, i.e. in the network.
      • Notifications:
        • Need to inform the requester as soon as possible.  the requester do not know how much time the test would need.
        • If not otherwise possible, reporting on printed paper and expedition by a postal messenger.  If everything cannot be done the same day, daily partial reports.
          
• Pathology:
  • Handling groups of images like radiology, but trough a microscope, and the patient do not need to be present in the lab
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