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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2000
Keith S. Margrey, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Robin A. Felder, Charlottesville, VA (US);
James C. Boyd, Charlottesville, VA (US);
J. William Holman, Earlysville, VA (US);
John Savory, Keswick, VA (US);
The University of Virginia Patent Foundation, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Abstract
An interactive multi-station medical specimen analysis system for simultaneously analyzing a medical specimen at remote locations and accessing, for evaluation, the results of each of the analyses at a central laboratory is disclosed. A central laboratory, interacts with remote computers, through a server to review, evaluate and accept or reject specimen analyses. The server communicates with the plurality of remote computers, laboratory computer and a centralized computer via a network. Analytical instruments which are not equipped to communicate with a computer are connected through computer interface software which interprets the instrument language into the computer program language and the computer program language into the instrument language. The interactive system requests analytical tests, transmits the test results to the server databases and receives and displays data from the server databases. Laboratory based interactive software acquires and either displays test results from the server databases, reviews and accepts or rejects the test results and transmits the acceptance or rejection to the server databases.