Conference Agenda

Session Descriptions:

Opening Remarks

Executive Vice President of IMS, Kevin Meagher, will kickoff the conference by discussing the current state of BSI. 

BSI Connect and Hub
This session will provide an overview of IMS’s BSI Connect and BSI Hub products that support integration and harmonization between BSI and other platforms in your biospecimen network. The BSI Connect module allows users to integrate BSI with their current data systems.  BSI Hub provides an avenue for remote repositories, labs, collection centers, and other biobanks in your network to submit their specimen inventory data to BSI for centralized tracking and data harmonization.

Exploring Tools in the Locations Manager
Discover some of the most useful tools in the Locations manager, including: custom preferences, movement options, right mouse button tools, scanning, and helpful reports.

Micromanaging Your Samples: Tracking Clinical Sample Usage
Overview of how the Pathology Department within AstraZeneca/US tracks and manages the Clinical Sample material from various trials, including: sectioning of blocks, creation of slides, staining, imaging, etc.  Details for each of projects were painstakingly captured in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Dawn of a new day, the onboarding of BSI, aligning our fast-paced work environment with a system able to move in parallel with our workflow. Do you know where your samples are? Who stained last weeks batch of Trial X samples? And where are they now? If these are the type of questions you have encountered in the past stay tuned to see how we have adapted BSI to support our clinical workflow needs.

Training Best Practices
This session will equip attendees with the best tools to ensure successful training for their staff. We will discuss how to prepare for hands-on workflow-based trainings for new users and continued learning for existing users.

Translators: Import and Export Data Efficiently
Demonstration on how to write and use translations to make importing data easier and faster. Stephen will also show how to use translations to export data that is in the proper format for use by another LIMS system.

Maximizing use of the Incoming Shipments Module
This session will examine underutilized tools for entering data into the shipments and data entry editors, an alternative workflow approach, and other ways to maximize the use of the incoming shipments module.

What’s New in BSI?
This presentation will provide an overview of what features have been released since the last Users Group Conference in April 2017 and which sessions you should attend during this year’s conference to learn more about them.

BSI Engage Workflow: Supporting Remote Site Specimen Collection
Demonstration of workflows and share best practices for utilizing BSI Engage to support multi-site trials. Our approach leverages Engage features to communicate lab materials to remote sites, manage specimen chain of custody, and publish periodic repository reports.

Sharing BSI Part I: Understanding BSI for Repository Set-up
Setting up BSI for multiple groups: Understanding relationships, Repository, Institution and study-level security

Our Laboratory’s Journey with BSI: Managing the Software, Specimens, and Staff
When transitioning to an electronic inventory system, there are many considerations, such as how to manage the current specimens. Are they hand-written, labeled, or barcoded?  What’s the age? Demonstration on how to manage features in the software - control vocabulary and what data to capture.  What happens when laboratories merge?  How to manage staff across numerous laboratories and address training and education needs. This presentation explores a laboratory’s journey as BSI was integrated into their program.

Monitoring Inventory
This session will evaluate a variety of features and tools that can be used to more effectively monitor specimen inventory.  Better handling of inventory leads to more efficiency, time and cost savings.

Biorepository at Scale and Integrating BSI with Other Systems
Join Product Manager Bob Hart and Program Manager Sam Dauphinee as they share AncestryDNA’s journey in scaling one of the largest biorepositories in the world to handle commercial  volumes.

Behind the Scenes: Validation, Process/Change Control, and the RFE Process
This session will provide information about how BSI works with users to define changes to the system, the process by which BSI implements changes using a controlled workflow, and how changes are validated and documented.   

Requisitions: What’s new? + Tips and Tricks
This session will cover new features and tasks in the Requisitions module. Additionally, tips for optimizing workflows in the client and on Engage will be discussed.

BSI Tools for Data Standardization and Control
This session shows what BSI offers for data entry control and data standardization. We will cover many ways to standardize data and access control which are commonly used by BSI users, as well as some lesser known ways. This will include an overview of the related functionality in many BSI modules such as Customization, Templates, Permissions, Translations, Review Lists, and others.