Public Health

Designed to Protect the Health of the Population

Public health officials around the world depend on your lab’s ability to not only monitor and track possible pandemics and epidemics, but also to determine causative effects whenever they occur. The STARLIMS Public Health solution automates processes throughout the lifecycle of the sample, from scheduling to sample login to reporting, empowering labs to deliver timely and accurate results to protect the health of entire population.

Have Confidence in Compliance and Best Practices

• Comply with Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) guidelines for all 16 PHL processes
• Meet industry-standard best practices and guidelines. Abbott Informatics partners with APHL, CDC and public health facilities in more than 30 district, regional, national and international public health laboratories to make sure that our software helps you meet industry-standard best practices and guidelines
• Work with a GSA Schedule 70 Certified provider. Abbott Informatics is GSA Schedule 70 certified for Forensics and Public Health. See all our certifications

Collect and Handle Samples Seamlessly

• Collect data on the fly with an Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN)
• Prelog samples and provide information about each sample before submission to reduce the staff and time required to accession a sample upon receipt
• Use barcoding and handheld devices to generate sample labels and make specimen tracking easier from mobile devices and on the go

Assure the Quality of Your Lab Results 

• Automatically alert analysts and reviewers of QC failures and suspect results
• Configure and create triggers that help your staff navigate a testing and handling pathway defined by your best practices
• Guide users through pre-defined steps that comply with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), providing appropriate recommendations based on your specifications

Streamline Day-to-Day Logistics

• Support HL7, PHL, ICD-9, CPT, LOINC, and SNOMED messages and codes
• Bring together all testing results and supporting documentation, regardless of format, with the STARLIMS Data Capture Utility (DCU)
• Integrate all your lab’s testing, storage and handling systems with a richly featured Scientific Data Management System (SDMS) and Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN)