Patent ID: 9128069
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: G01N,G16B,G16H,Y02A

Abstract:
1. An analysis system for analyzing biological samples comprising: at least one analyzer which performs an analysis, the analyzer operates to characterize a property of an analyte of a biological sample and to acquire at least one measurement value as a result of the characterization; a receiver which receives unique sample identifiers, each one of the unique sample identifiers identifying one of the biological samples; a set of program instructions which cause assigning meta information to each sample identifier, the meta information comprising at least a point in time information being indicative of the age of the sample, and storing each received identifier and its assigned sample meta information; a storage component which stores condition sets, each condition set corresponding to an analytical test and comprising at least one condition that has to be met by a sample to be usable for performing said analytical test by the analyzer, each said condition set comprising at least one condition for the age of the sample; an interface which receives an analysis request, the analysis request being at least indicative of one sample to be analyzed and at least one analytical test to be performed; a decision unit which operates to determine in response to the receipt of the analysis request whether results to be obtained from performing the analysis on the sample indicated in the analysis request will be valid, wherein this determination is executed by retrieving the meta information assigned to the sample and by applying the at least one condition on the meta information and wherein the at least one applied condition comprises at least a condition on whether the age of the sample allows a valid analysis on the sample, and wherein the decision unit returns the decision that the analysis to be exercised on the indicated sample will return a valid result in case the conditions of the condition set are met by the sample; and a controller which operates to initiate the analyzer to perform the analysis using the sample if it is determined that the sample is usable.