METHOD FOR OPERATING A LABORATORY SYSTEM

• Main Authors: MAETZLER, Marco, LAMBAEK, Ole, VON HOPFFGARTEN, Moritz, SCHOFIELD, Christopher
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 25.11.2020
• Subjects: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS

Method for operating a laboratory system (1) comprising a laboratory instruments (10, 10PRE, 10LD, 10AI, 10PA) for processing samples and a control unit (20) connected by a communication network (70), the method comprising the steps of: receiving and identifying a biological sample; retrieving an order list from a database, the list comprising a plurality of targets defining one or more processing steps to be carried out on the biological sample by one or more of the laboratory instruments (10, 10PRE, 10LD, 10AI, 10PA); selecting a workflow strategy; retrieving workflow acceptance criterion corresponding to the workflow strategy; the control unit (20) determining a sample workflow for processing the sample based on the workflow strategy; determining whether the sample workflow satisfies the workflow acceptance criterion; if the sample workflow does not satisfy the workflow acceptance criterion, refining workflow strategy and the workflow acceptance criterion and determining the sample workflow again until it satisfies the workflow acceptance criterion.