Patent ID: 8495707

Claim:
A system for quality assured analytical testing, comprising: an Instrument Management System (IMS); an analytical instrument for conducting analytical testing, the analytical instrument having an input section for determining an actual user of the instrument and the analytical instrument being configured to run a testing routine; and a terminal connected to the Instrument Management System (IMS) which is remote from the analytical instrument and which provides an examination module of the IMS that is programmed to: conduct an exam during which the examination module prompts questions to the user via the terminal which relate to the analytical instrument and/or a diagnostic test to be conducted therewith, receive via the terminal answers from the user to the questions, evaluate the answers, determine if the user has passed the exam, and transmit a user certificate to the analytical instrument if the user passed the exam, wherein the analytical instrument is programmed to check if a user certificate for the actual user is available and grant access to the testing routine by the user for conducting an analytical test only if a user certificate is available, wherein the IMS is configured to relay the user certificate to the analytical instrument, and wherein the IMS is a server.