Assessing Your Needs and Justifying a LIMS
Laboratory Informatics
Oral Presentation
Prepared by R. Danielson
Confience, 5540 Centerview Drive, Ste 204, PM 98282, Raliegh, North Carolina, 27606-8012, United States
Contact Information: [email protected]; 910.673.8165 ext 3257
ABSTRACT
A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is a crucial component in ensuring quality data, maintaining lab efficiency, meeting customer or project requirements and, sustaining regulatory compliance. However, a LIMS is a complex and expensive tool and, just like any other laboratory expense, there needs to be a clear justification for its purchase and use. One of the biggest errors laboratories make in the purchase of a LIMS is not satisfactorily defining what their lab needs from a LIMS and therefore often end up with an expensive inadequate system.
What you will learn from this presentation:
• Review of LIMS functionality
• How to organize and prioritize needs with a Needs Assessment
• How to get staff buy-in and work in teams
• Defining customizations and automations, before talking to the vendors
• How to conduct a risk and cost analysis
• Understanding what the expectations and risks are on your laboratory for implementation
Laboratory Informatics
Oral Presentation
Prepared by R. Danielson
Confience, 5540 Centerview Drive, Ste 204, PM 98282, Raliegh, North Carolina, 27606-8012, United States
Contact Information: [email protected]; 910.673.8165 ext 3257
ABSTRACT
A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is a crucial component in ensuring quality data, maintaining lab efficiency, meeting customer or project requirements and, sustaining regulatory compliance. However, a LIMS is a complex and expensive tool and, just like any other laboratory expense, there needs to be a clear justification for its purchase and use. One of the biggest errors laboratories make in the purchase of a LIMS is not satisfactorily defining what their lab needs from a LIMS and therefore often end up with an expensive inadequate system.
What you will learn from this presentation:
• Review of LIMS functionality
• How to organize and prioritize needs with a Needs Assessment
• How to get staff buy-in and work in teams
• Defining customizations and automations, before talking to the vendors
• How to conduct a risk and cost analysis
• Understanding what the expectations and risks are on your laboratory for implementation