Laboratory informatics

<h2 id="capability-areas">Capability Areas</h2>
In the context of Public Health Laboratories, the <a href="/facts/Association_of_Public_Health_Laboratories/Ep5PA6RJ">Association of Public Health Laboratories</a> has identified 19 areas for self-assessment of laboratory informatics in their Laboratories Efficiencies Initiative.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a> These include the following Capability Areas.

<ul><li>Laboratory Test Request and Sample Receiving</li>
<li>Test Preparation, LIMS Processing, Test Results Recording and Verification</li>
<li>Report Preparation and Distribution</li>
<li>Laboratory Test Scheduling</li>
<li>Prescheduled Testing</li>
<li>Specimen and Sample Tracking/Chain of Custody</li>
<li>Media, Reagents, Controls: Manufacturing and Inventory</li>
<li>Interoperability and Data Exchange</li>
<li>Statistical Analysis and Surveillance</li>
<li>Billing for Laboratory Services</li>
<li>Contract and Grant Management</li>
<li>Training, Education and Resource Management</li>
<li>Laboratory Certifications/Licensing</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Customer_Relationship_Management/Y74q0uXB">Customer Relationship Management</a></li>
<li>Quality Control (QC) and <a href="/facts/Quality_Assurance/BhDeyhel">Quality Assurance</a> (QA) Management</li>
<li>Laboratory Safety and Accident Investigation</li>
<li>Laboratory Mutual Assistance/Disaster Recovery</li>
<li>Core <a href="/facts/IT_Service_Management/UIpRDey0">IT Service Management</a>: Hardware, Software and Services</li>
<li>Policies and Procedures, including Budgeting and Funding</li></ul>
<h2 id="sub-topics">Sub-topics</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Laboratory_information_management_system/HGYCFbFP">Laboratory information management system</a> (LIMS)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_LIMS_software_packages/NczCTRLX">List of LIMS software packages</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Chromatography_data_system/cq5fK2Mf">Chromatography data system</a> (CDS)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Electronic_lab_notebook/RFNHNT1a">Electronic lab notebook</a> (ELN)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_ELN_software_packages/Nlh6lRqL">List of ELN software packages</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="organizations">Organizations</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.slas.org/">Society for Laboratory Automation & Screening (SLAS)</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/American_Association_for_Clinical_Chemistry/u6e0moEs">American Association for Clinical Chemistry</a> (AACC)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.limsforum.com/">Laboratory Informatics Institute</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="publications">Publications</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://americanlaboratory.com/">American Laboratory</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Informatics/YylNMP9r">Informatics</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Nakagawa, Allen S., LIMS implementation and management, Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 1994</li>
<li>Liscouski, Joe, Laboratory and Scientific Computing a Strategic Approach, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995</li>
<li>Gibbon, Gerst, "A Brief History of LIMS", Laboratory Automation and Information Management 1996, 32(1), 1-5</li>
<li>Myers, J. D.; Fox-Dobbs, C.; Laird, J.; Le, Dai; Reich, D.; Curtz, T., "Electronic laboratory notebooks for collaborative research", In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96) (WET-ICE '96) IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 1996, 47-.</li>
<li>Paszko, Christine; Pugsley, Carol, "Considerations in selecting a laboratory information management system (LIMS)", American Laboratory, 2000, 32(18), 38-42</li>
<li>Paszko, Christine; Turner, Elizabeth; Hinton, Mary D., Laboratory Information Management Systems, Revised & Expanded. CRC Press, 2001</li>
<li>Tracy, Douglas S.; Nash, Robert A., "A Validation Approach for Laboratory Information Management Systems", Journal of Validation Technology, 2002, 9(1), 6-14</li>
<li>Perry, Douglas, <a href="http://jla.sagepub.com/content/9/6/421.full">"Laboratory Informatics: Origin, Scope, and its Place in Higher Education"</a>, Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation, 2004, 9(6), 421 - 428</li>
<li>Sterling, James D., <a href="http://jla.sagepub.com/content/9/5/11A.full.pdf+html">"Laboratory Automation Education"</a>, Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation, 2004, 9(5), A11-A12</li>
<li>Sterling, James D., <a href="http://jla.sagepub.com/content/9/5/331.full.pdf+html">"Laboratory automation curriculum at Keck Graduate Institute"</a>, Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation, 2004, 9(5), 331-335</li>
<li>Taylor, Keith, <a href="http://www.atriumresearch.com/library/Taylor_Electronic_laboratory_notebooks.pdf">"The status of electronic laboratory notebooks for chemistry and biology"</a>, Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development, 2006, 9(3): 348-353</li>
<li>Wood, Simon, <a href="http://www.americanlaboratory.com/914-Application-Notes/1436-Comprehensive-Laboratory-Informatics-A-Multilayer-Approach/">"Comprehensive Laboratory Informatics: A Multilayer Approach"</a>, American Laboratory, 2007, 39(16), 20-23</li>
<li>Metrick, Gloria, <a href="http://www.americanlaboratory.com/913-Technical-Articles/35129-Three-Issues-of-LIMS-Laboratory-Informatics-That-Can-Cost-Money/">"Three Issues of LIMS/Laboratory Informatics That Can Cost Money"</a>, American Laboratory, 2007, 39(21), 10-11</li>
<li>Calva, Diana; Lehman, Mario, <a href="http://paper.ijcsns.org/07_book/200812/20081213.pdf">"An analysis of the possible applications of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to a Clinical Laboratory Information Management System"</a>, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, 2008, 8(12), 82-86</li>
<li>Shah, Kim, <a href="http://www.pharmtech.com/elevating-laboratory-informatics-assist-decision-making">"Elevating laboratory informatics to assist decision-making"</a>, Pharmaceutical Technology Europe, 2009, 21(5)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">Perry, Douglas. Laboratory Informatics: Origin, Scope, and its Place in Higher Education: Journal of Laboratory Information, December 2004, 9(6), 421-428 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">Padhee, Subhransu; Prusty, Sankata Bhanjan; Biswal, Aditya P.; Pati, Umesh Chandra (2016). "Design of an educational laboratory for measurement and data acquisition system". 2016 IEEE Students' Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Science (SCEECS). Bhopal, India: IEEE. pp. 1–6. doi:10.1109/SCEECS.2016.7509298. ISBN 978-1-4673-7918-2. S2CID 8891397. <a href="978-1-4673-7918-2" target="_blank">978-1-4673-7918-2</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:4">Singh, Guru. "Why We Use Voice Technology". www.labtwin.com. Retrieved 2020-02-26. <a href="https://www.labtwin.com/blog/why-we-use-voice-technology" target="_blank">https://www.labtwin.com/blog/why-we-use-voice-technology</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">Behrman, Alison (2017-08-28). Speech and Voice Science, Third Edition. Plural Publishing. ISBN 978-1-63550-075-2. <a href="978-1-63550-075-2" target="_blank">978-1-63550-075-2</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">"Laboratory Informatics". University of Nebraska Medical Center. Archived from the original on 2015-05-12. Retrieved 2016-04-09. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150512064733/http://www.unmc.edu/pathology/clinical/clinical-programs/lab-informatics.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20150512064733/http://www.unmc.edu/pathology/clinical/clinical-programs/lab-informatics.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">"Informatics Self-Assessment Tool for Public Health Laboratories" (PDF). www.aphl.org. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-17. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161220185749/https://www.aphl.org/MRC/Documents/LEI_2013Jun_Informatics-Self-Assessment-Tool-for-PHLs.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20161220185749/https://www.aphl.org/MRC/Documents/LEI_2013Jun_Informatics-Self-Assessment-Tool-for-PHLs.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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