1. A computer implemented method of diagnosing diseases at hospitals, staffed pharmacies or unstaffed locations for analyzing a vial containing a specimen sample from a user, comprising the steps of: providing an automated diagnostic vending machine, providing a computer in said automated diagnostic vending machine, providing a diagnostic unit in said automated diagnostic vending machine operably connected to said computer, providing an automated genetic assay diagnostic instrument in said diagnostic unit in said automated diagnostic vending machine that performs nucleic acid extraction from the specimen and produces a genetic assay from the specimen and produces a disease diagnoses, providing a unit for communicating said disease diagnoses to the users in said automated diagnostic vending machine operably connected to said computer and to said diagnostic vending unit, positioning said diagnostic vending machine at the hospitals, the staffed pharmacies or the unstaffed locations, delivering the vial to said automated diagnostic vending machine, using said automated diagnostic vending machine for sample acquisition and processing to perform said nucleic acid extraction from the specimen and produce said genetic assay from the specimen and to produce said disease diagnoses, using said automated diagnostic vending machine for diagnosing diseases from the specimen sample providing said disease diagnosis, using said unit for communicating said disease diagnoses to the users in said automated diagnostic vending machine for communicating said disease diagnosis to the user, and wherein said automated diagnostic instrument in said automated diagnostic vending machine has sample lines, and including the step of decontaminating said sample lines of said automated diagnostic instrument in said automated diagnostic vending machine using cleansing solutions.