LIMS - Laboratory Information Management System

Program Introduction

Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) play a key role in laboratories meeting quality standards, decreasing transcription errors, reducing turnaround time from specimen receipt to reporting of results, and improving patient outcomes. In the last decade, technological advances in laboratory instrumentation have led to higher specimen volumes and a greater demand and reliance on laboratory data to support clinical and public health needs. These advances demonstrated that paper-based record keeping and results reporting were inefficient and could not support the laboratory’s business needs. As a result, there has been a tremendous growth in the demand for adoption of LIS at all levels.