The clinical laboratory in Colombia: origins, history, birth and development

El laboratorio clínico en colombia: orígenes, historia, nacimiento y desarrollo

The clinical laboratory as it is known today, has undergone a process of historical transformation that viewed from the empirical, the systematic and organizational. Given its origins in knowledge, skills and applied techniques of exact sciences and disciplines, driven by the need to implement a diagnostic tool in the management and treatment of diseases.
In Colombia the clinical laboratory, has its beginnings in the early twentieth s, according to the economic and health needs of the time. The greatest impetus to laboratory consolidation was conducted through the emergence of the National Institute of Health as the national reference, adopting structural and organizational models in Europe and the United States.
The intent of this document is to look through the origins, history, the birth and development of the clinical laboratory in Colombia.