Laboratory Information System (LIS)
Our web-based and on-prem LIS offers industry-leading functionality built be practicing lab directors and healthcare IT programming experts. Each implementation takes into account the unique needs and business goals of the client. This collaborative approach leads to successful product launches, user acceptance, and return on investment. With intuitive functionality and a stable back-end technology stack, the Lab Ref LIS exceeds the needs of even the most demanding clients.
What Sets Our LIS Apart from Our Competition?
- Custom Built to Your Lab Workflow
- Collaboration with your Laboratory Director(s)
- Ongoing Support & Optimization as You Grow
Key Features & Considerations in Selecting a LIS
Choosing the right LIS for your lab’s individual needs is an important process. Lab Ref seeks to remove obstacles by partnering directly with your lab director to customize the solution specifically to your workflow, testing volume, and State/Federal compliance. This approach ensures that our scalable solutions will meet your needs today and grow with you tomorrow.
Lab Ref’s cloud-based and on-prem LIS offers:
- Web Portal (ATTLAS) – AnyAnalyzer Toxicology Lab (Laboratory) Access System)
- Admin Portal
- Client Portal
Interface Development
Lab Ref provides full integration and data interoperability using industry-leading open-source integration engines such as HL7 and Mirth. This is essential to efficient sharing to test orders, results, and accessioning.
Sample Management, Accessioning and Tracking
A LIS handles the sample tracking process from start to finish, but its capabilities go far beyond. It can also manage shipment, accessioning, and inventory processes. By managing all these processes, you can ensure sample integrity, data quality, and a proper chain of custody.
Lab Management
One core strength of a LIMS is its overall lab management capabilities, which fall into three broad categories:
Inventory management: Track where items such as reagents and consumables are located and the supply available. Monitor their use-by date and assign automatic reorder alerts for ultimate ease.
Instrument management: Monitor instrument status in your lab. You can also schedule calibrations and maintenance, based on workload, to optimize uptime and resourcing — particularly during busy periods.
Lab health: View and manage all your lab resources. Dashboards give you an overview of the lab’s status so you can appropriately determine timelines and resource projects.
Compliance
Many labs need to ensure they comply with internal and external regulations. A LIMS makes this easier by securely tracking all data and metadata needed to support compliance. Furthermore, a LIMS supports regulatory compliance to guidance documents including GxP, ISO 17025 and FDA 21 CFR Part 11.
Workflow Capabilities
It can be challenging and time-consuming to connect your processes. A LIMS enables you to map your workflows graphically to actual laboratory processes to automate decisions and actions, thereby reducing the need for user intervention.
Process Compliance
A Laboratory Information System (LIS) guides analysts through each step of a method to ensure correct and accurate SOP execution. It also captures the complete process history to demonstrate compliance. Many LIMS have this capability in-built, enabling users to take readings and observations during processes and record them straight into the LIS.
Collaborative Working
If your organization spans multiple labs locally, regionally, or globally, you will likely benefit from data-sharing capabilities. A LIS collects and shares data securely across sites in real-time, meaning everyone has access to all the data they need, instantly.
Integration
Many labs already have (or are planning to install) enterprise systems that are crucial to the production side of their operations, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). Some LIS integrate with such systems, and other lab systems such as Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN) or Chromatography Data Systems (CDS), to connect disparate data sources and reduce manual data transfer.
Data Security
In any organization, security is a must. A quality LIS is able to connect to industry standard identity and access management systems such as OAuth2.0, and also offer multi-factor authentication. As well as data security, a LIS handles data archival. Proper electronic reports can be retained, and data archived, in line with regulatory requirements.
Data Visualization and Analytics
There are more options with your data than ever thought possible. LIS software not only captures all relationships and metadata, but enables you to share, analyze, audit, and report it contextually. An ideal LIMS will also offer dashboards and data visualization, to present information from all the connected data, providing overviews such as lab performance and assigned work.
Related Questions
How Do I Know Which LIS is Right For My Facility?
Lab Ref's web-based LIS platform can be tailored to your specific needs with direct input from your lab director. Since one approach doesn't fit all lab facilities, we work with you to deliver the perfect product for your unique requirements.
Why is a Web-Based LIS Preferable?
What if I Have Multiple Locations?
How Robust is Your Reporting Functionality?
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