Policy QIMMI04008.05
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Department of Microbiology
Quality Manual
Section: LIS Downtime and System Maintenance
Prepared by: LIS Committee
Issued by: Laboratory Information System
Approved by: Laboratory Director
Subject Title: System and Hardware Overview
Original Date: October 22, 2008
Revision Date: October 31, 2008
Annual Review Date: May 31, 2013
Principle/Purpose: To describe LIS system(s) modules and hardware.
The laboratory information system (LIS) is an integrated information system comprised of
the following components:
1. LIS purchased from Soft Computer Consultants Inc. (SCC) for Blood Transfusion,
Biochemistry, Hematopathology, Anatomical Pathology, Microbiology, Cytogenetics and
Molecular.
2. Cytovision, purchased from Applied Imaging, is an image analysis system used by
Cytogenetics to pair and study chromosomes.
3. Prenatal Risk Assessment (PRA), purchased from Benetech.
4. A network of Hospital template personal computers (PC) which require administrator
level access to add or remove software.
5. The LIS is available to authorized users on PCs in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and
Microbiology through a local area network (ETHERNET network).
6. The system is used to generate, transmit and manage laboratory results entered
manually or through standard (ASTM or HL7) interfaces with automated analytical
instruments.
7. The system is interfaced to Hospital information systems and other Laboratory
Information systems for result reporting and order entry purposes. All such interfaces
use HL7 standard protocols and pass through an intermediary interface engine.
8. The Mount Sinai Hospital network is a TCP/IP network consisting of gigabit capable
Nortel and Cisco switches connected to a fibre backbone. There is also a wireless
network infrastructure which is 802.11b consisting of Nortel and Cisco equipment.
Network servers include the Unix-based LIS servers as well as several Windows 2000
servers and a few Windows NT servers configured in a domain. All PC workstations are
members of the domain. Serial devices such as label printers and analytic instruments
located in laboratory areas are connected to Xyplex terminal servers that in turn are
attached to the hospital network.
9. The LIS system Hardware consists of a two servers that provide mirrored data for maximum robustness. This
configuration minimizes the potential for data loss. Both servers are IBM P7 model 8233-E8B Server 2:
System p 750 power stations. Data for SoftLab and SoftMic between 1995 and 2000 is stored
on the main server in a separate database under the logins “alab” and “amic”. SoftBank
and SoftPath results are contained in their entirety on the main server. For ease of
management, security and support the LIS hardware is located in the HP Markham Data
Center.
UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK/MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY
NOTE: This is a CONTROLLED document. Any documents appearing in paper form that are not stamped in red "MASTER COPY" are not
controlled and should be checked against the document (titled as above) on the server prior to use
Policy QIMMI04008.05
Page 2 of 2
Department of Microbiology
Quality Manual
Section: LIS Downtime and System Maintenance
Prepared by: LIS Committee
Issued by: Laboratory Information System
Approved by: Laboratory Director
Subject Title: System and Hardware Overview
Original Date: October 22, 2008
Revision Date: October 31, 2008
Annual Review Date: May 31, 2013
The main and auxiliary servers have the following features and are Oracle based with 2 LPARs and
WebLogic configuration:
System 1/ System 2 for Parallel Processing
IBM P7 model 8233-E8B Server 1:System p 750
8-core 3.3GHz POWER7 processor card
4 x 32GB 1066MHz DDR3 DRAM memory
20 x 146GB 15K RPM SAS drives
12 x 300GB 15K RPM SAS drives
4 x 1GB Ethernet LAN adapters
4 port Digi adapter
800GB LTO-4 SAS tape drive
4.7GB SATA DVD-RAM drive
AIX Version 6.1
PowerVM Standard Edition
UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK/MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY
NOTE: This is a CONTROLLED document. Any documents appearing in paper form that are not stamped in red "MASTER COPY" are not
controlled and should be checked against the document (titled as above) on the server prior to use