Abstract
The automation of clinical laboratory can be achieved from two sides. One is the automation of process of measurements and the other is the data processing in relation to receiving samples or reporting results of tests.
A typical example of the automatic measurements is automated chemical analyzers, which are already a part of clinical laboratories in many hospitals. There are, however, still many tests which have not been automated because of technical difficulties and this unbalance has to be overcome in future.
The processing of data generated in laboratory is also an important problem in recent laboratories. We discuss here our system which utilizes minicomputer and production control terminals. Since the laboratory data need be processed in real-time, minicomputers will play an important role in clinical laboratory where total hospital information system is not available.
