Sample Management

From receipt to disposition, every sample accounted for.

CMS Life Sciences runs the complete clinical sample lifecycle with guided workflows, live chain-of-custody, and a triage pattern that auto-advances clean work and routes exceptions to the right person.

The lifecycle

A guided workflow for every stage.

Each stage is gated, attributable, and audit-logged — no step happens off-system.

Reception wizard

A four-gate intake — manifest, parcel inspection, barcode scanning, and validation — captures shipment details, condition checks, and sign-offs before anything is accepted.

Barcode scanning

Live operator scanning timestamps every sample to a named operator, satisfying the Attributable principle from the first touch.

Tracking

Search and filter samples across their lifecycle status and storage hierarchy — always know where a sample is and what state it's in.

Distribution

Inter-freezer, inter-site, and inter-study movements run through approval chains with SLA deadlines and custody hand-off.

Reconciliation

Expected-vs-actual counts and field mismatches surface for guided resolution, each correction captured with a reason-for-change.

Disposition

End-of-study destroy, retain, or deplete decisions with custodian sign-off, optional two-person authorization, and linked evidence documents.

Operations at a glance

A control room for your sample operation.

The dashboard surfaces the day's work and the system's health so managers act on exceptions, not spreadsheets.

  • Morning briefing of today's incoming shipments
  • Distribution gap indicator catches sample imbalances
  • Review queue for pending approvals with exception flags
  • System status panel for component health and queued records
Operations dashboard
Total samples
128,540
Active studies
37
Pending distributions
12
Compliance score
100%
Review queue
4 to action
  • Append-only, hash-chained event stream
  • Every event attributable to a person and timestamp
  • Evidence documents linked (manifests, approvals, reports)
  • Exportable for audits and inspections
Chain of custody

A complete, audit-ready history for every sample.

The custody timeline composes audit events, distribution, and disposition into one report — from receipt through final disposition — with ALCOA+ principles documented per event and evidence documents linked.

See your sample lifecycle running on CMS Life Sciences.

We'll walk your workflows end to end, from manifest to disposition.