Patent ID: 8594948

Claim:
A method for remotely interpreting laboratory data, comprising: a. obtaining a specimen from a patient at a remote site; b. obtaining patient and specimen information; c. performing clinical laboratory operations on the patient specimen at the remote site; d. collecting clinical laboratory data, and patient and specimen information at the remote site using a computer; e. transmitting one or more sets of clinical laboratory data, patient and specimen information to a central site, by Internet; f. generating, at the central site, one or more interpretive patient data sets from the combined transmitted clinical laboratory data, patient and specimen information, using a computer; g. transmitting one or more interpretive patient data sets from the central site to one or more expert reviewers by Internet; h. interpreting one or more interpretive patient data sets by one or more expert reviewers; i. generating, using a computer, one or more test reports under the control of one or more expert reviewers; and, j. transmitting one or more test reports to the remote site by Internet.