an interactive multi - station medical specimen analysis system for simultaneously analyzing a medical specimen at remote locations and accessing , for evaluation , the results of each of the analyses at a central laboratory is disclosed . a central laboratory , interacts with remote computers , through a server to review , evaluate and accept or reject specimen analyses . the server communicates with the plurality of remote computers , laboratory computer and a centralized computer via a network . analytical instruments which are not equipped to communicate with a computer are connected through computer interface software which interprets the instrument language into the computer program language and the computer program language into the instrument language . the interactive system requests analytical tests , transmits the test results to the server databases and receives and displays data from the server databases . laboratory based interactive software acquires and either displays test results from the server databases , reviews and accepts or rejects the test results and transmits the acceptance or rejection to the server databases .