A COMPREHENSIVE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEM FOR LABORATORY HEMATOLOGY

The Coulter(R) FACULTY(TM) knowledge-based systems, Professor Petrushk a for peripheral blood interpretation, Professor Fidelio for flow cyto metry immunophenotyping and Professor Belmonte for bone marrow reporti ng, have been installed in several hospitals in Spain, Portugal and th e United Kingdom. In Spain and Portugal, the systems are part of the I ZASA-Coulter CITOTECA(R) workstation, which includes a video camera fo r capturing microscopic images and a networkable laboratory informatio n system supporting color reports. At the Royal Hospitals Trust (St. B artholomew's Hospital and The Royal London Hospital, London, UK), netw orked workstations are available and the system is used daily to gener ate bone marrow reports in the hematology laboratories. There have bee n considerable benefits from adopting Coulter FACULTY for bone marrow reporting, including faster turnaround time, improved quality of the r eports and cost savings. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.