ADVIA CentraLink® Networking Solution - Features & Benefits
Multi-system data management with enhanced communication capabilities
The ADVIA CentraLink Networking Solution* helps you to gain even more process efficiency via a simplified network link. It supports up to 2 automation systems with up to 32 different instrument connections. More benefits:
- Consolidation of costly LIS interfaces
- Support for dual communication channels with the LIS
- Support for up to 15 optional client workstations
- Validation for use of remote clients
- Support for wide range of host communication protocols
Laboratory wide process efficiency opportunities
The greatly expanded system capacity in the ADVIA CentraLink Networking Solution now stores up to 40 million active patient results which means improved efficiency, streamlined data management, and extended delta checking capacity for your lab. In addition the ADVIA CentraLink Networking Solution now offers:
- Connectivity to any combination of multiple chemistry, immunoassay, hematology, urinalysis, hemostasis, and molecular systems in an automated, partially automated, or non-automated configuration.
- Greater database responsiveness - Capability to handle larger laboratory workflows
- Autoverification tools with expanded rules capabilities to decrease errors and enhance patient safety
- Enhanced QC features to improve multi-system management of laboratory QC
- Enhanced security & contingency operations
True consolidation of Patient & QC data management
With its multisystem data manager the ADVIA CentraLink Networking Solution is perfectly suited for automated, partially automated, or non-automated configurations. It enhances management of patient and quality-control (QC) data from multiple instruments at any client workstation providing greater efficiency and efficacy in autoverification capabilities.
Further advantages:
Powerful quality control tools
- Flexible Westgard Rules
- Calculation of patient moving averages
- Review QC by method, instrument, lot and species
- Robust query capability -determine what specimens need to be rechecked after a failure is detected via QC monitoring
- Automatically or easily remove result(s) from statistics or calculations
- Add comments during QC review
- Support for multiple data types and /or use of comparators (<,>, =)
Enhanced results management
- Receive qualitative patient results, but quantitative QC results for same method
- Delta checking on both absolute and percentage basis
- Utilize multiple result aspects from data stream and consider instrument flags for infectious disease testing in rules for autoverification
- Compare results across instruments or sites*
Timely monitoring of pending work
- Capability to review patient held for technologist review by operator selected tests, instruments or group of instruments
- Flexible sample query capability- select maximal & minimal sample status or query overall sample status (pending, scheduled, review, validated, uploaded)
Enhanced sample management
- Improved workflow and sample retrieval processes
- Expanded sample archive location upload- upload archival and location information from the ADVIA CentraLink Networking Solution to the LIS, along with general area of Cold Storage (i.e. Shelf, Door, Area, Tray ID, Tray Position).
- Enhanced sample query capabilities-query by test and /or sample status
Maximized Investment Opportunities
The ADVIA CentraLink Networking Solution offers seamless integration with flexibility for economical change and remote connectivity* between labs. Other options* available for maximized investment opportunities include:
- Support for dual automation connectivity
- Support for multi-system laboratory wide instrument connectivity; up to 32 instrument connections*
- Data storage for up to 30,000 patient samples per connected instrument*
- Data storage for up to 30,000 QC records per connected instrument*
- Support for laboratory growth where remote connectivity between labs within the core laboratory or at a satellite laboratory several miles away can be achieved
*ADVIA CentraLink Networking Solution version 12.0 required
1. Test name
2. Test status
3. Current result
4. Instrument flag
5. Previous run on same sample result
6. Previous sample result
7. Previous sample date/time
8. Normal range by age, sex, species
9. Severity flags
• NS=Range
• DS=Delta
• QS=QC
• IS=Instrument
10. Instrument where performed
