Laboratory Equipment Interfacing

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Lab Equipment Interfacing

Effective integration of laboratory equipment is crucial to improving the productivity and efficiency in a hospital's laboratory environment. Integration of laboratory equipment with LIS was once a daunting task, until recent years with the development of laboratory equipment. With Raster’s advanced Lab Link application, equipment integration is very reasonable and doable undertaking. The bottom line is that the LIS implementation project should include a prioritised plan to integrate as many laboratory equipments with the system.

Uni-Directional Equipment

These equipment are able to output a data report and results file but do not have a facility to import information. Interfacing these equipment is done by the Lab Interface software picking up the data and updating the information/results into the LIS.

Bi-Directional Equipment

These equipment are able to both output data reports and results files. They can import data, information, worklists, commands/function calls, etc by reading the information on the barcode. The results are updated in the LIS without any human intervention.

Reasons To Interface Your Equipment To LIS

Increase Productivity & Effectiveness: One of the best reasons to interface your instruments to your LIS is the increase in lab productivity and effectiveness it yields. Removing the manual entering of data, from the instrument to the LIS, saves a ton of time and effort. With bi-directional equipment, users will also eliminate the time required to enter the test information (Worklist), parameters, etc. into the equipment. Thus increasing productivity and sample throughput which play a key role in all quality controls and testing labs.
Better Data Quality & Integrity: Another key reason to interface your instruments to your LIS is the increase in data quality and integrity that it yields. By removing the “human element” from the data transfer and entry equation, a huge source of error is removed. This removes transcription errors and will significantly increase the quality of your data.