Biochemistry 3386B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Laboratory Automation, Clinical Chemistry, Whole Blood
10 Feb 2020
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Market trends need for automation: quality guidelines; automation can improve the quality of laboratory work, lack of skilled staff; automation would solve the issue of a shortage of skilled staff. Increasing competition; due to increasing quality of work from competing organizations, some must improve their work to stay in business: cost pressure; Integration: linking analytical instruments or groups of instruments with pre- and post- analytical devices. Items unable to be automated: maintenance and service of equipment, calibration of assays, quality control, external quality assessments, verification/management of expectations: human intuition is needed to deal with clinical findings in constructive ways. Instruments middleware laboratory information system (lis: review connectivity web* (slide 15) Automated processing systems: stand-alone platforms: turn-key systems; task-oriented processors, partial automation or modular systems: involve selectable units or modules; flexible and scalable solutions, total laboratory automation: complete end-to-end processing; geared toward high volume, routine testing.
