Public Health Laboratories

Public health laboratories provide diagnostic testing, conduct disease surveillance, do applied research, laboratory training, aid in public policy making, regulate private medical laboratories and perform other necessary functions and services to the communities they serve.

LabAnswer has experience working with federal, state and local public health laboratories. Among the services we regularly perform:

• Project management
• Laboratory informatics direct implementation/configuration
• Requirements elicitation and documentation
• Laboratory business process review and recommendations
• Internal & external data integration analysis & review
• Legacy data analysis and migration
• Assist with procurement
• Instrument interfacing
• Security analysis & review
• Design & system requirements including source selection matrix
• Laboratory As-Is and To-Be workflow development
• Laboratory informatics market analysis
• Laboratory Requests for Proposal (RFP) review & comment
• Laboratory informatics demonstration scripting development
• Vendor demonstration evaluation and analysis
• Vendor package negotiations
• Laboratory informatics implementation oversight and management
• Validation, verification & review
• User/administrator training

Project Experience

LabAnswer has participated in over twenty government public health LIMS projects in the US and Canada over the last five years - most of which involved eliciting requirements from laboratory users and customers, documenting those requirements, and helping guide the LIMS project and procurement strategy.