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Clinical Chemistry 46: 778-783, 2000;
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Stand-Alone Automated Solutions Can Enhance Laboratory Operations

Paul J. Orsulak1

1 Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System, 4500 South Lancaster Rd., Dallas, TX 75216

Clinical laboratory automation has developed over the past decade as one means of consolidating testing, reducing costs, and improving the effectiveness of laboratory testing. Most of the developments have been aimed at core clinical laboratory operations, and have primarily addressed preanalytical and analytical processing of traditional specimens arriving in blood collection or similar aliquot tubes. Much less attention has been given to specialized applications such as processing specimens for urine toxicology, and only recently have vendors attacked the problems associated with sorting and maintaining the laboratory’s inventory of specimens. This report highlights selected developments in these areas, describes one approach to cost-effective custom platform development, and discusses the advantages and pitfalls to solving problems with laboratory automation.






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