EISC’s Paul Banfer to Speak at NEMC 2021 on Data Integrity in the Automated Lab

July 28, 2021, Las Vegas, NV: EISC Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Paul Banfer, will speak at this year’s annual National Environmental Monitoring Conference (NEMC) in Bellevue, Washington, being held August 2nd-5th.

 

Banfer is an expert in laboratory informatics and will speak on the importance of automated and electronic data workflows. Specifically, he will address automated quality assurance that is built into the process for complete data traceability and how this facilitates the communication of scientific analytical data from data source to decision-maker at an exponential pace.

Banfer is a former board member of the EPA’s Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board (ELAB) and was instrumental in drafting current national Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (NELAC/NELAP) guidelines for quality assurance within the lab. Banfer’s topic of extending quality assurance and data integrity from laboratory to decision-maker focuses on the capabilities necessary to facilitate direct communication of the lab’s science and results to experts within, between, and across multiple industries, all within seconds.

 

His presentation will cover a wide range of subjects, including automated analytical review for primary, secondary, and completeness, the automatic electronic tracking of professional judgments and decisions that occur throughout the lab data lifecycle, application of action limits pertinent to the project, and communication of the analytical issues direct to the decision-maker, to name a few. He will then demonstrate a use case applied to an electronic workflow for PFAS processing to unregulated contaminant monitoring rule (UCMR).

 

“A seamless process is critical. Not only does it help science get to discovery faster, but also provides immediate regulatory compliance, protects against data bias, and significantly reduces or eliminates the incidence of error”, states Banfer. ” And when appropriately employed, it’s completely seamless and can dramatically increase productivity.

 

According to Banfer, many within the lab can benefit from these changes including scientists, chemists, analysts, quality assurance officers, departments, and lab managers.

 

“EISC has always dedicated efforts to creating automated lab systems that place data quality at the forefront of a process within the lab”, says Banfer. “After nearly two decades, this process still comes down to electronically closing functionality gaps.  When unaddressed, these gaps impede a seamless, transparent process for qualified scientific decision-making and promote the opportunity for compromise of the lab’s data integrity.  Data quality assurance should be non-negotiable within a lab’s data lifecycle, both internal to the lab and to entities outside of the lab that will use that data to support critical decisions affecting our daily lives and the world in which we live.

 

About EISC: Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, EISC is a woman-owned international life, material, and physical sciences informatics company.  EISC has been providing patented and proprietary laboratory data integration and automation solutions across multiple industries for over 20 years.

 

About NEMC: The National Environmental Monitoring Conference (NEMC is the largest conference focused on environmental measurements in North America. It is the principal forum for addressing policy and technical issues affecting the monitoring of all environmental media (i.e., water, air, soil, and waste) and across all environmental programs.