Reply To: Week 4 Topic 3 CDSS

[Nakarin]

I had worked with the Auto-Validation program for reporting the medical laboratory results to the doctor. When the blood is tested by an automated machine in the lab, the results will be sent to the database. The data will be automatically reported to the department or doctor from the laboratory information system (LIS) to the hospital information system (HIS) if this data is passed the criteria that set by consideration of the doctor’s team and laboratory’s team together. The criteria are about the accuracy of the data such as the difference between the current value and previous value, how important of that result or critical value. If the data is not passed the criteria we set, these data will be stuck in LIS and the program will notify the laboratory’s staff to check that data an decide what to do next. The program helps us a lot that we do not have to review all of the results before report it to the doctor (such as the samples from the checking up department). But the problem is this program can not directly notify doctor in case of the patient have the critical value, laboratory’s staff have to notify doctor by phone. The program can not change the patient’s information in case of there is something changed after the patient’s information had imported to this program.