Design of An information System for Medical Laboratories

Abstract

The use of a computerized system is becoming more important in medical laboratories around the world .A good designed and installed of laboratory information system brings accuracy and accessibility to the flow of samples and data in the clinical laboratory. An information system for medical laboratory will be able to handle all the basic information management needs and has the capacity to quickly and easily to manage, analyze and retrieve data. That means it possible to access data by patient’s name, by laboratory department or patient’s number or by test result and analysis performed. This kind of data searching is almost impossible with paper-based system. The system offers some benefits over paper – based systems like error reduction ,quality control management and needs small space to store records compared between medical record written on papers which may be damage or loss. An information system for medical laboratory has been aimed to reduce and eliminate existing paper based approaches and to minimize human’s errors, repetition or duplication of records and reduced cost of operation time. An information system for medical laboratory designed to mange patient record by sending data from the reception to doctor office to laboratory department(Hematology , Chemistry and Parasitolgy) and database office and saved all the patient’s medical information by using suitable programmable language (C# and SQL) which is modern ,type safe programming language ,object oriented language that enables programmers to quickly and easily build solution for Microsoft. This trial version was reviewed for some specialists in medical laboratories and the results were satisfactory