Study of Efficiency of Automatically analytical Tool for Health Status Assessment of Annual Health Check-up

Abstract

          Automatically analytical tool for assessing health status has been developed by the Community Health Care Service, Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University to increase work efficiency of services which has an increasing number of customers. In this study, the efficiency of automatically analytical tool was assessed by comparing with medical technologist (MT) assessment using data from annual heath checkup. Assessment criteria for health status were defined according to a reference value of laboratory tests.

          The results of method comparison showed that the total agreement, positive agreement, and negative agreement between these two methods were 99.3%, 98.8%, and 99.7%, respectively. In addition, the positive predictive value when using the automatically analytical tool was 99.7 %. Our study demonstrated the high efficiency of the automatically analytical tool to assess the health status. Moreover, the automatically analytical tool reduced approximately 50% of the workload of MT manpower, leading to a reduction of turn-around-time of health check-up in this Community Health Care Service examination.