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A public health laboratory is unlike the average clinical diagnostics laboratory as it must typically meet more stringent requirements. For example, they must adhere to not only CLIA (for labs in the United States), but also additional regulations laid out by the departments, agencies and other regulatory bodies of local, state and/or national governments. Additionally, the public health lab serves entire populations, not just individuals.[1][2] As such, these differences require the public health LIMS to provide additional functionality to help public health labs meet their population-based mandates.
In addition to the essential features of a standard LIMS, the public health lab will also be looking for a system that can (or allows users to)[3][4][5][6]:
- Provide specialty workflow for newborn screening.
- Provide surge capacity for high-priority analyses.
- Provide workflow and tools for managing microorganisms and toxins of elevated risk.
- Support most medical test protocols and specimen types.
- Support ELISA, DNA extraction, sequencing and other molecular workflows.
- Support for a robust set of decision support rules for reflex testing.
- Support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's PHIN Messaging System.
- Support other electronic data exchange standards for critical community partners.
References
- ↑ Becker, S.; Perlman, E.J. (2010). "Chapter 1: An Introduction to Public Health Laboratories". In Jenkins, W.. Public Health Laboratories: Analysis, Operations, and Management. Jones & Bartlett Learning. pp. 1–14. ISBN 0763771023. https://books.google.com/books?id=6SDqL72zPRUC.
- ↑ Becker, S.J.; Blank, E.C.; Martin, R.; Skeels, M. (2005). "Chapter 27: Public Health Laboratory Administration". In Novick, L.F.; Mays, G.P.. Public Health Administration: Principles for Population-based Management. Jones & Bartlett Learning. pp. 623–627. ISBN 0763740780. https://books.google.com/books?id=bFBPMcQe6ogC.
- ↑ Association of Public Health Laboratories (May 2019). "Laboratory Information Systems Project Management: A Guidebook for International Implementations" (PDF). APHL. https://www.aphl.org/aboutAPHL/publications/Documents/GH-2019May-LIS-Guidebook-web.pdf. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ↑ "Public Health". LabWare, Inc. 2021. https://www.labware.com/industries/healthcare#publichealth. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ↑ "Public Health Laboratories". Orchard Software Corporation. 2021. https://www.orchardsoft.com/solutions/public-health-labs/. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ↑ "ApolloLIMS for Public Health Labs". Common Cents Systems, Inc. 2021. https://www.apollolims.com/lab-expertise/public-health/. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
