METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CHARGING ONLY FOR SUBSTANTIAL EXAMINATION IN EXAMINATION APPARATUS REAGENT SERVICE SYSTEM

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow charging only for an examination meaningful for a customer in an examination service providing an analyzer and consumables. PSOLUTION: On the customer side, the number of examinations carried out during a predetermined period is recorded for each of predetermined examination types and each of predetermined examination items. In completion of the predetermined period, the numbers of examinations recorded for respective examination types and respective examination items are sent from the customer to a service provider. The service provider charges only for the numbers of examinations carried out on specimens of the type meaningful for the customer. In one embodiment, the numbers of examinations are stored in a table defined by the specimen types and the specimen items arranged so that those for a charge and those for free of charge are separated in order, and the table can be reconstructed on the service provider side. The service provider charges only for the numbers of examinations located in the rows of chargeable specimen types among the received numbers of specimens. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT