In the ED, various types of information systems such as electronic health record systems, clinical information systems, laboratory information systems, and/or emergency department information systems (EDIS) may be used by EPs for laboratory medicine purposes [9 12].
A number of specific projects focus on external quality assurance, basic laboratory information systems, strengthening laboratory management towards accreditation, equipment calibration, harmonization of training materials, networking and provision of pre-packaged laboratory kits to support outbreak investigation.
Several legacy systems have been integrated into the EHR system, including HMIS (hospital management information system), LIS (laboratory information system), RIS (radiology information system), PACS (picture archiving and communication system), PMS (pharmacy management system), and OMS (operation management system).
Thereafter, this information was validated against results in the laboratory information system by a skilled laboratory technician.
Utilizing the VCH laboratory information system, Sunquest®, which stores laboratory data in the Sunset® database, a report was generated to identify all positive blood cultures with GNB from 2002 2011.
Departmental information systems include laboratory, radiology, and picture archiving and communication systems.
We describe the design and implementation of an e-health driven, web-based laboratory information system - NETLAB - to communicate laboratory results for monitoring HAART to laboratory personnel, health providers and PLHIV.
Information of patients was retrieved from the hospital information system and the laboratory information system (Additional file 1).
We extracted information from patient charts, the hospital information system and the laboratory information system, and performed a retrospective case search within these data sources.
Information on blood isolates of Salmonella serovars were retrieved from the electronic laboratory information systems in each laboratory.
Finally, the laboratory information system had to integrate with current laboratory reporting systems being used.
