Precision Health (PH) at U-M takes a multidisciplinary approach to prevention, implementation, and community health and is a key HITS collaborator. PH studies are tracked within LabVantage, a lab information management system that supports study protocols and designs, follows a chain of custody process for samples, and creates an audit trail.
PH studies comprise 70,000 patients. Using data pulled from LabVantage, the HITS Biospecimen Management team was able to assist PH by creating a report using data about patient enrollments, withdrawals, declines, and samples collected. This report enables PH to easily gauge the number of enrollments, withdrawals, and declines per study, per month, and per year.
PH is also now able to determine which patients consented, which did not have a sample taken, or whether the patient’s DNA yield was low. Equipped with this information, PH can approach those patients again to request another DNA sample, or in the case of low yield, a second DNA sample. Previously, PH had to determine this information patient-by-patient.
This article was written originally by Stephanie Dascola, who is no longer with HITS. Contact HITS for more information about the article.
