Laboratory simulation for analysis of the performance

Development of a software, that mirrors the setup of a medical diagnostic laboratory and simulates its sample workflow. Background Information: For the management of sample data laboratory instruments communicate with a Laboratory Information System (LIS) via messages. With the increase of lab automation, the rate of sample throughput, result production and, thus, the amount of transmitted and received messages to a LIS grows exponentially. Objectives: With the software to be developed a message load is generated against the LIS and measured to adjust both, the laboratory setup and the LIS configuration if necessary. Therefore, a virtual laboratory is tested against an actually installed LIS by generating virtual samples which are directed through the virtual laboratory on the basis of a predefined laboratory workflow. Performance indicators are recorded during a simulation and subsequently analyzed.