Hospital laboratory ASTM protocol

Our comprehensive laboratory management module, besides issuing bills, managing specimen, scheduling tests and establishing two way communication with various brands of auto analyer machines and printing and sharing test results to various departments – also monitors the inventory of reagents and kits, tracks patient work flow and measures waiting time – thus bringing about considerable savings in costs and improving patient satisfaction. The module also has an Activity Based Costing sub module for right pricing of laboratory services for hospitals

The following equipments are supported (ASTM protocol)

The communications protocol used on the VITROS 5,1 FS Chemistry System was created by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). It is designed specifically for medical devices and supports the transfer of an array of medical data. It enables speedy communication while using a number of data protection mechanisms, such as, acknowledgments, timing mechanism, and data recovery procedures. It also establishes a national standard for communication among medical facilities and may eventually become an international standard. The ASTM protocol promotes data integrity while handling a great volume of data.

Information about this protocol can be found in a publication produced by ASTM: Annual Book of ASTM Standards. Designation: E 1394-97: “Standard Specification for Transferring Information Between Clinical Laboratory Instruments and Computer Systems” and Designation: 1381-95: “Specification for Low Level Protocol to Transfer Messages Between Clinical Laboratory Instruments and Computer Systems.” It is recommended that these publications be obtained and used as supplements to this guide.

Clinical Biochemistry
VITROS® 5,1 FS – Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics   
VITROS 250                                                   
Hematology
Beckman Coulter LH 500           
Sysmex KX21                           
Hormone
Elecsys 2010

Minimum Requirements For Interfacing lab Machine using MOXA

  • MOXA device
  • Interfacing cable for connecting lab machine to MOXA.
  • Network switch for connecting Moxa.
  • One computer for running our LIMS application (LIMS server).
  • HOST Interface document.

About Duleep Sahadevan

The author brings 25 years of industry experience in implementing ERP solutions for India based hospitals and nursing homes. His areas of interests include Strategy implementation, Business to Business marketing & innovation. Undergone specialisation in Strategy and Marketing from Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK). Active member of NASSCOM emerge community,
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