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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2019
Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
A diagnostic system and method and an interconnected laboratory system comprising clinical diagnostic systems are presented. The diagnostic system comprises a sample preparation module, a liquid chromatography (LC) separation module coupled to the sample preparation module via a sample preparation/LC interface, a mass spectrometer (MS) module coupled to the LC separation module via an LC/MS interface, and a result calculation module for identifying and/or quantifying analytes or substances of interest contained in the samples and passed through the LC separation and MS modules. The diagnostic system comprises a controller programmed to monitor operational parameters (-) indicative of a performance status of the diagnostic system, to trigger a quality control procedure and/or a maintenance procedure whenever one or more parameters (-) of the operational parameters (-) is out of specification, and to minimize the quality control and/or maintenance procedures as long as the operational parameters (-) remains within specification.