Patient-centric load planning system and method

A system for patient-centric load planning for a diagnostic laboratory, comprising:

• a system controller;
• a plurality of instruments controlled by the system controller to perform one or more requested tests on one or more patient samples;
• and
• a computer server coupled to the system controller, the computer server comprising a load planning module for determining a load plan for the plurality of instruments, the load plan comprising computer executable instruction configured to:
• assign a menu of selected tests to each of the plurality of instruments;
• order the patient samples according to a priority score based on at least a portion of an electronic health record (EHR) of the patient providing the patient sample;
• and
• process the patient samples using instruments assigned to perform the requested tests for each patient sample.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a load planning module having computer executable instructions configured to cause a computer server to perform patient-centric load planning for a diagnostic laboratory to:

• determine a load plan for the plurality of instruments from the computer readable data, the load plan comprising computer executable instruction configured to:
• assign a menu of selected tests to each instrument;
• order the patient samples according to a priority score based on at least a portion of an electronic health record (EHR) of the patient providing the patient sample;
• and
• process the patient samples using instruments assigned to perform the requested tests for each patient sample.