Helping Keep Drinking Water Safe: LIMS Helps Lab Obtain Accreditation and Increase Throughput

摘要

Implementation of a new Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) has helped the Portland, Oregon Bureau of Water Works obtain National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (NELAP) accreditation while increasing laboratory throughput. Water quality laboratories across the country face the need to perform a higher volume of testing and improve data security in order to ensure the safety of the nation's water supply. "Implementation of the new LIMS has improved our control of data to the point that we can now easily determine exactly who entered or changed any piece of information and when and why it was done," said Alberta Seierstad, Laboratory Manager for the Portland Water Works. "The new LIMS has also helped us increase throughput by automatically scheduling most samples and allowing field data to be collected on handheld computers and uploaded to the LIMS."