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Clinical microbiology informatics
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Rhoads DD
; Sintchenko V
; Rauch CA
; Pantanowitz L
Clin Microbiol Rev
2014[Oct]; 27
(4
): 1025-47
PMID25278581
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The clinical microbiology laboratory has responsibilities ranging from
characterizing the causative agent in a patient's infection to helping detect
global disease outbreaks. All of these processes are increasingly becoming
partnered more intimately with informatics. Effective application of informatics
tools can increase the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of microbiology
testing while decreasing the laboratory workload, which can lead to optimized
laboratory workflow and decreased costs. Informatics is poised to be increasingly
relevant in clinical microbiology, with the advent of total laboratory
automation, complex instrument interfaces, electronic health records, clinical
decision support tools, and the clinical implementation of microbial genome
sequencing. This review discusses the diverse informatics aspects that are
relevant to the clinical microbiology laboratory, including the following: the
microbiology laboratory information system, decision support tools, expert
systems, instrument interfaces, total laboratory automation, telemicrobiology,
automated image analysis, nucleic acid sequence databases, electronic reporting
of infectious agents to public health agencies, and disease outbreak
surveillance. The breadth and utility of informatics tools used in clinical
microbiology have made them indispensable to contemporary clinical and laboratory
practice. Continued advances in technology and development of these informatics
tools will further improve patient and public health care in the future.
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