Additional Requirements : Laboratories
Version 0.3, Etiene Saliez
- 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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