The STARLIMS Cloud platform was implemented by Precision Diagnostics, a San Diego-based drug testing firm, to enhance data security and lay the foundation of their sample tracking and management, resulting in streamlined testing workflows.

Interestingly, STARLIMS’ cloud data protection is also addressing the increasing problem of physician burnout by providing users fast and secure access to analytics, public documentation, and regulatory-compliant data integrated with their EMRs (existing electronic medical records).

Altogether, STARLIMS’ Cloud data security, intuitive dashboards, search flexibility, trend analyses, and analytics capabilities decrease the time and effort expended on data collation, manual file searches, and records review. They all meet the American Medical Association Guidelines for addressing physician burnout.

The configurable consoles and dashboards of STARLIMS ease the queries by authorized physicians regarding current, cumulative, and historical test results. These can involve the associated patient healthcare data of an individual or several patients on a single screen as distinguished by various parameters.

Analytics

According to Precision Diagnostics CTO (Chief Technology Officer) Greg Ackerman, their customers are benefiting from STARLIMS features that are unavailable from other solutions. Directly connecting to government open-source data, the platform can access the 911 emergency call system in real time. This allows clinicians, physicians, and psychiatrists to be alerted when a 911 call has been placed for any of their patients, which may be a drug-related emergency. In addition to providing data security and a holistic understanding of patient and patient populations, the platform can improve the understanding, tracking, and management of the U.S. opioid crisis.

In contrast to other cloud data security platforms, STARLIMS provides an intuitive analytics capability that allows users to identify and highlight a patient who has an unexpected positive or negative result with a single mouse click. They can also be quickly made aware of skewing patient populous graphs and trends. Thus, physicians and nurses save numerous hours on manual searches of EMRs. This decreases computer time which can lead to physician burnout. Another benefit is the information can offer important insights regarding drug addiction trends among patient populations.

Part 2 will discuss the Reliability and Security of Data Access and the STARLIMS Integrated Solution.

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