title: Design of a clinical laboratory computer system.
abstract: A clinical laboratory is a dynamic organization that suffers when constrained to a static environment. Its approach to information management must be predicated on an ability to deal comfortably with change whenever necessary. It is important to view an information system as a dynamic process rather than a static object to be used for some time and then discarded for a newer model.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Blume
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; D003199:Computer Systems; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D011381:Programming Languages; D014584:User-Computer Interface