Features
Why Choose Us?
OpenELIS is an open-source system which means there isn’t a license fee. OpenELIS is supported by the OpenELIS Foundation staff and Iowa State Hygienic Laboratory Information Technology staff. Prior versions of the system are supported, and clients are not charged a fee for upgrading to the newer version.
Configuration of the system can be performed by a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Administrator or other trained laboratory staff which allows the laboratory to quickly respond to new and emerging diseases.
Clinical Laboratory
Environmental Laboratory
Including Safe Drinking Water
Newborn Screening Laboratory
Including Hearing and Short-Term Follow-up
Animal Testing
What's New?
OpenELIS Updates
OpenELIS in a Changing Landscape
The withdrawal of funding from public health is exerting a substantial impact on the system’s ability to deliver essential services. This means tightened budgets and shifting priorities. What, however, is […]
NBS Module Rollout in OpenELIS
In collaboration with the Iowa State Hygienic Laboratory (SHL) development team, the newborn screening (NBS) and Short-term Follow-up (STFU) module is now available in OpenELIS. This milestone is the beginning […]