LAB SYSTEMSINDEX

Map the system. Preserve the evidence. Test the handoff.

Operating domain

Operating domain: Electronic records and data integrity

The governance and control system for attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original or verified-copy, accurate, complete, consistent, enduring, available records and their metadata throughout the lifecycle.

What this domain asks

The governance and control system for attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original or verified-copy, accurate, complete, consistent, enduring, available records and their metadata throughout the lifecycle.

The domain should retain its own evidence, decision owner, materiality criteria, exception path, and consequence even when it shares organization identity, workflow, or technology with adjacent domains. Aggregation can support oversight; it should not erase the evidence behind different risks or operating outcomes.

Buyer questions

  • Which record and metadata are authoritative?
  • What can be created changed deleted reprocessed or overwritten?
  • Who reviews which audit trails and when?
  • Can records be reconstructed and rendered through retention?
  • How are hybrid steps interfaces incidents and corrective actions governed?

Mapped workflows

Instrument Integration And Bidirectional Worklists

A demonstration should show the trigger, source, accountable role, decision, exception, evidence, and downstream handoff for instrument integration and bidirectional worklists within this domain.

Raw Scientific-File Capture And SDMS Archive

A demonstration should show the trigger, source, accountable role, decision, exception, evidence, and downstream handoff for raw scientific-file capture and SDMS archive within this domain.

Chromatography Acquisition Processing And Reporting

A demonstration should show the trigger, source, accountable role, decision, exception, evidence, and downstream handoff for chromatography acquisition processing and reporting within this domain.

Electronic Signatures Audit Trails And Record History

A demonstration should show the trigger, source, accountable role, decision, exception, evidence, and downstream handoff for electronic signatures audit trails and record history within this domain.

Role Identity Access And Segregation-Of-Duties Controls

A demonstration should show the trigger, source, accountable role, decision, exception, evidence, and downstream handoff for role identity access and segregation-of-duties controls within this domain.

API Integration And Enterprise Interoperability

A demonstration should show the trigger, source, accountable role, decision, exception, evidence, and downstream handoff for API integration and enterprise interoperability within this domain.

Deployment Administration Change Control And Validation Support

A demonstration should show the trigger, source, accountable role, decision, exception, evidence, and downstream handoff for deployment administration change control and validation support within this domain.

Authority context

21 CFR Part 11

Part 11 sets criteria under which FDA considers electronic records and signatures trustworthy, reliable, and generally equivalent to paper records and handwritten signatures.

FDA Data Integrity Guidance

The guidance addresses complete, consistent, accurate data; metadata; audit trails; access; review; blank forms; testing into compliance; and investigation of data-integrity problems.

EU GMP Annex 11

Annex 11 addresses risk management, personnel, suppliers, validation, data, accuracy checks, storage, printouts, audit trails, change, security, incident management, signatures, business continuity, and archiving.

PIC/S PI 041-1

PI 041-1 describes data governance, risk, lifecycle, organizational controls, computerized and paper systems, audit trails, review, outsourcing, and remediation considerations.

Relevant operating models

Evidence boundary

Lab Systems Index provides market, standards, regulatory, product, and operating research. It does not validate a computerized system, certify Part 11 or GxP compliance, accredit a laboratory, approve a method, determine scientific validity, interpret patient results, or replace laboratory, quality, validation, regulatory, security, legal, data-integrity, or scientific review. A provider's documented capability can identify a research candidate but cannot establish buyer-specific adequacy for this domain.