BioBanking and BioSpecimen Management

HealthCare IT provides a biorepository and information management software solution designed   to  handle the demanding workflows of today's hospital, biomedical research and drug development enterprises. BIGR®, along with its KnowledgeCaptureTM and DiseaseLinkTM Library components, have a proven record of supporting the needs of large scale institutions.

BIGR® is designed to facilitate the collection and management of large, diverse and distributed repositories of biomaterials. Based on years of experience in sample collection, processing and repository management, BIGR® consists of a suite of web-based software, standard operating procedures (SOPs), deployment and training materials and supporting services.

BIGR®’s KnowledgeCaptureTM and DiseaseLinkTM Library components provide a powerful information modeling solution which enables structured, standardized data annotation efforts across a research and development enterprise. BIGR® customers leverage the value of an extensive taxonomy of data elements and pre-defined disease models to create a customized, disease- and research-specific information model to serve as the foundation of an integrated data environment.

Since 2001, BIGR® has been widely used by a variety of institutions to:

  • manage more than 200,000 samples collected at multiple biobanking sites
  • support the enrollment and consent of more than 20,000 donors and the collection of associated clinical data, using an annotation model supporting over 75 diseases
  • support diverse institutional workflows
  • track donor and sample status, history and chain-of-custody events
  • identify appropriate material for specific research needs, including molecular and tissue-based derivatives
  • manage the storage and distribution of samples and data to more than 60 leading medical institutions, biotech and pharmaceutical companies

When it comes to managing high quality, highly annotated biospecimen collections underpinning molecular medicine diagnosis and research objectives, using BIGR® is the right choice to make.

We also provide a range of professional services including biobank startup, re-engineering and change management. To learn more about our professional services in support of biospecimen management click here.