2004 Breakout Sessions

E1 Breakout Session
View Synchronized Slides - Monzon
View Synchronized Slides - Sendek
View Synchronized Slides - Carter

Laboratory Information Management Systems for Specialty Pathology Laboratories:  Challenges and Opportunities.
Federico A. Monzon, MD, Michael Sendek and Alexis Carter, MD

Specialty laboratories within Pathology departments have data management needs that are not usually supported by standard (out of the box) commercial LIS offerings. These needs often demand new solutions, as well as a combination of tools and resources from existing Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology systems. This session will provide an overview of the information management needs for specialty laboratories like HLA, Molecular Diagnostics and the not so distant integration of genomic and proteomic data into clinical systems. We will discuss the challenges posed by these needs, the current solutions with commercial and in-house developed applications and the development of "hybrid" LIMS systems for managing information from high-throughput laboratory technologies.