Assessing Your Needs and Justifying a LIMSLaboratory 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
