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The Indiana Laboratory System: Focus on Environmental Laboratories.

Authors :
MADLEM, JYL M.
HAMMES, KARA R.
MATHESON, SHELLEY R.
LOVCHIK, JUDITH C.
Source :
Public Health Reports; Sep/Oct2013 Supplement 2, p57-62, 6p, 1 Black and White Photograph, 2 Graphs
Publication Year :
2013

Abstract

The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) Laboratories are working to improve Indiana's state public health laboratory system. Environmental laboratories are key stakeholders in this system, but their needs have been largely unaddressed prior to this project. In an effort to identify and engage these laboratories, the ISDH Laboratories organized and hosted the First Annual Environmental Laboratories Meeting. The focus of this meeting was on water-testing laboratories throughout the state. Meeting objectives included issue identification, disaster recovery response, and communication efforts among system partners. Common concerns included the need for new technology and updated methods, analyst training, certification programs for analysts and sample collectors, electronic reporting, and regulation interpretation and inspection consistency. Now that these issues have been identified, they can be addressed through a combination of laboratory workgroups and collaboration with Indiana's regulatory agencies. Participants were overwhelmingly positive about the meeting's outcomes and were willing to help with future laboratory system improvement projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00333549
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Public Health Reports
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
90130635
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549131280S209