A system for enabling test data resulting from an analytic determination carried out on a clinical analytic device (20-1) to be communicated to an electronic patient information management system (80), the system comprising: a computer module (120-1) communicatively connectable to the clinical analytic device (20-1), a user operable control unit (140) communicatively connectable to the computer module (120-1), and an instrument tag (22-1) readable by the user operable control unit (140) and associated with the clinical analytic device (20-1).
