Patent ID: 11955230
Assignee: BECKMAN COULTER, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 5:
6. The system of claim 1, wherein:
each instrument from the plurality of remote analytical instruments comprises a rich data generation module adapted to provide the measurement data with one or more of associated tag information items from a group consisting of:
lot and serial number information for calibrators, controls and reagents;
calibration results,
control results,
assay parameters used to generate results,
sample type, description and container type,
sample quality indices generated by instrument users,
underlying raw result data,
non-HIPAA sample specific information identified as potentially impacting a test result; and
maintenance and service records,, and
the acts the one or more processors are configured to perform comprise providing support for:
the plurality of remote analytical instruments; and
assays run on the plurality of remote analytical instruments;

by performing data mining with the tag information items from the data generation modules of the plurality of remote analytical instruments.