PMID- 24761839
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150107
LR  - 20190606
IS  - 2476-762X (Electronic)
IS  - 1513-7368 (Linking)
VI  - 15
IP  - 6
DP  - 2014
TI  - The intelligent clinical laboratory as a tool to increase cancer care management 
      productivity.
PG  - 2935-7
AB  - Studies of the causes of cancer, early detection, prevention or treatment need 
      accurate, comprehensive, and timely cancer data. The clinical laboratory provides 
      important cancer information needed for physicians which influence clinical 
      decisions regarding treatment, diagnosis and patient monitoring. Poor 
      communication between health care providers and clinical laboratory personnel can 
      lead to medical errors and wrong decisions in providing cancer care. Because of 
      the key impact of laboratory information on cancer diagnosis and treatment the 
      quality of the tests, lab reports, and appropriate lab management are very 
      important. A laboratory information management system (LIMS) can have an 
      important role in diagnosis, fast and effective access to cancer data, decrease 
      redundancy and costs, and facilitate the integration and collection of data from 
      different types of instruments and systems. In spite of significant advantages 
      LIMS is limited by factors such as problems in adaption to new instruments that 
      may change existing work processes. Applications of intelligent software 
      simultaneously with existing information systems, in addition to remove these 
      restrictions, have important benefits including adding additional 
      non-laboratory-generated information to the reports, facilitating decision 
      making, and improving quality and productivity of cancer care services. 
      Laboratory systems must have flexibility to change and have the capability to 
      develop and benefit from intelligent devices. Intelligent laboratory information 
      management systems need to benefit from informatics tools and latest technologies 
      like open sources. The aim of this commentary is to survey application, 
      opportunities and necessity of intelligent clinical laboratory as a tool to 
      increase cancer care management productivity.
FAU - Mohammadzadeh, Niloofar
AU  - Mohammadzadeh N
AD  - Department of Health Information Management, Tehran University of Medical 
      Sciences, Tehran, Iran E-mail : nmohammadzadeh@razi.tums.ac.ir.
FAU - Safdari, Reza
AU  - Safdari R
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Thailand
TA  - Asian Pac J Cancer Prev
JT  - Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP
JID - 101130625
SB  - IM
MH  - *Clinical Laboratory Information Systems
MH  - Disease Management
MH  - *Efficiency, Organizational
MH  - *Health Services Needs and Demand
MH  - Humans
MH  - Neoplasms/*prevention & control
EDAT- 2014/04/26 06:00
MHDA- 2015/01/08 06:00
CRDT- 2014/04/26 06:00
PHST- 2014/04/26 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/04/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/01/08 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.6.2935 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2014;15(6):2935-7. doi: 10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.6.2935.