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J Suico

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Electronic laboratory reporting: barriers, solutions and findings.

Electronic laboratory reporting can improve surveillance for notifiable conditions. Building on standards for message structure and content, we have implemented an electronic laboratory reporting system by building on the infrastructure created for the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC). The system has proven reliable in delivering results and scalable to multiple laboratories over 36 months of use. In April 2000, the system identified over 1,000 cases of notifiable conditions from the laboratories at four different laboratories. Our experience in developing the system has highlighted the need for improved compliance with HL7 result message formats by the laboratory information systems and more structured reporting of results for tests such as microbiology including consistent use of the abnormal flag.

Clinical Laboratory Information Systems↗

Informatics Workup.

We introduce the concept of a Medical Informatics Workup performed by fourth year medical students working in a busy inner-city Emergency Room. These students use portable computers (Macintosh PowerBook 170s connected to a removable cartridge hard drive and CD-ROM drive) to do the patient workups. The PowerBook 170 contains the automated medical record entry software (IMR-E), five expert system software packages, and a program that allows the PowerBook to emulate a PC-compatible computer. With this configuration the student has a portable system that allows for the creation of a computerized medical record at the patient's bedside, along with the ability to analyze the data and generate a list of differential diagnoses.

Angina Pectoris↗