Quality assured analytical testing system and method thereof

摘要

A system and method for quality assured analytical testing is disclosed. A user is prompted by the system questions which relate to an analytical test to be conducted or an analytical instrument to be employed. Input received by the system from the user is evaluated to determine to which degree the inputs are correct. The user is certified if the determined degree is above a preset threshold. Next, the user is prompted by the system for a user identification and if the user is a certified user, access is provided to a testing routine of the analytical instrument.

主权项

1. A system for administering an examination for quality assured analytical testing by an actual user and for managing an analytical instrument by an administrator comprising:
the analytical instrument comprising a microprocessor programmed to conduct an analytical testing routine, and an input section to determine the actual user of the instrument, the microprocessor being further programmed to check if the actual user is a certified user permitted to conduct the testing routine; and a server connected to the analytical instrument and which runs an Instrument Management System (IMS) program which provides an examination module that is at least hosted on the server and programmed to:
conduct the examination during which the examination module prompts questions to the actual user which relate to at least one of the analytical instrument and a diagnostic test to be conducted therewith,receive answers from the actual user to the questions,evaluate the answers,determine if the actual user has passed the exam, andtransmit a user certificate directly from the examination module to the analytical instrument if the actual user passed the exam, wherein the microprocessor of the analytical instrument is programmed to check if the user certificate for the actual user is available and grant access to the analytical testing routine by the actual user for conducting an analytical test only if the user certificate is available for the actual user; and a Learning Management System (LMS) workstation connected to the server, the LMS workstation being a different component in the system from the analytical instrument and which is configured to permit the administrator to log into the server:
to manage the analytical instrument and decide which users of the analytical instrument need training; andto set a time frame via the LMS workstation for which the user certificate is valid; the IMS program is configured to delete a user certificate if the actual user fails the examination or if the time frame for which the user certificate is valid has expired by deleting the user certificate from a list of certified users; and the microprocessor of the analytical instrument is programmed to download program data or content data to the analytical instrument via the LMS workstation to check if the user certificate for the actual user is available by determining if the actual user is on the list of certified users, and deny access to the analytical testing routine if the actual user is not on the list of certified users.