What pressures are driving your organization?

Expanded workloads combined with stringent guidelines have dramatically increased the amount of data handled by crime laboratories. Forensic labs must confidently manage ever growing amounts of case information that comes in from police departments, pathology labs, drug rehabilitation centers, prisons, and even private customers. All case file information, data, test results, validation information, and much more needs to be managed meticulously. This includes managing:

• Large amounts of evidence that may have been collected from multiples sites over an extended period of time
• Databases of victims, suspects, statements and charges
• A wide variety of test results
• Documentation of laboratory validation
• The ability to query for specific information about all the above

In addition to the pressures of maintaining high-quality data management systems, laboratories are also struggling with the ability to organize this information and present it in court. As a result, more forensic laboratories are looking toward LIMS as the solution for tracking and managing these large amounts of data.

Manage your forensic laboratory with SQL*LIMS® Forensic Navigator

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How SQL*LIMS Forensic Navigator addresses your business

• Comprehensive case management and exhibit tracking that keeps all critical information related to a case in one easily accessible location
• Comprehensive data access features that ensure security
  and data integrity for each case
• ISO 9001 certification, compliance with ISO 17025 requirements, and adherence to the standards required by the relevant European and American authorities Agents
  (FDA, BSI, UKAS, DAB)
• Seamless integration with Applied Biosystems Human Identification instrumentation, software, and reagents that automates workflows and ensures data integrity
• Robust exhibit tracking, including a bar coding capability minimizes manual data entry and increases the accuracy of evidence handling
• Reagent management, analyst training/certification monitoring, and instrument calibration and maintenance functionality
• A scalable, Web-capable LIMS that lowers the total cost ownership and reduces the amount of time necessary to validate a forensic LIMS

SQL*LIMS Forensic Navigator workflow

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SQL*LIMS Forensic Navigator’s main workflow includes:

• Instrument Management
• Reagent Management
• Activity at Case Creation
• Activity by Examinations Types (lab units)
• Chain of Custody
• Configuration management (user definitions, audit, electronic signature, template, data groups, job type)

Main features of SQL*LIMS Forensic Navigator’s casework management

• Track the status of individual or multiple cases
• Manage contact information for multiple submitters
• Track multiple submissions of evidence from different locations and over extended periods of time
• Catalog images of evidence, crime scenes and other
  relevant items
• Assign multiple investigations to the same evidence
• Get real time reports on current work loads and backlog

Forensic Navigator Brochure

Forensic White Paper