MBioTest Database Architecture for Microbiology Laboratory Test

Transforming manual process into digital mean requires strenuous strategy and efforts. Despite the digitalization, building structured data on the unprecedented domain area is an important discovery to the information technology. Through a project called MBioTest, a structured database architecture has been developed to support the MBioTest system. Previously, data used for Microbiology Laboratory test were in the text-based files and less structured. The less structured data leads to unproductive data usage and retrieval. This paper presents the development of database architecture used in the Microbiology Laboratory test information system (MBioTest). The database architecture is design based on two type of microbiological test procedures, namely Sterility and Bacterial Endotoxin Test. Those tests are conducted to ensure the safety of radiopharmaceutical product used in cancer screening. The emphasize is on the generalization of the database architecture design which is able to be replicated to some other application of similar type of laboratory information management. (author)