What Is LSIT?LSIT is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization bringing together several industries to build the first Good Informatics Practices (GIP) Guidance Document to assist IT departments in 5 areas of: compliance, standards, best practices, risk mitigation and return on investment. GIP will be the guidance for improving quality and trust of IT within life sciences and healthcare.
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Good Informatics Practices for Life Sciences and Health Care Organizations – Meeting the Needs for Guidance

This white paper discusses the unique needs of trusted core data center services required by the heavily regulated health care and life sciences community. It raises the focus to trusted IT governances for all business IT services and business continuity over common disaster recovery strategies. The white paper describes implementation methodologies and rationale to fully embrace Good Informatics Practices (GIP) and ‘qualify’ the core-hub of the IT ecosystem.
The business value proposition and ROI occurs in shifting the IT professional’s applied resources from infrastructure management to IT business initiatives.
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Good Informatics Practices, (GIP) Guidance Business Model
LSIT relies on industry volunteers with expertise in one or more of the many facets of utilizing IT in the Life Sciences and Health Care industries. find out more or
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05.06.10 -- Press Release "LSIT Celebrates a GIP Milestone"
04.23.10 --
FDA-TRACK is a new agency-wide program performance management system that monitors over 100 FDA program offices through key performance measures. These measures are developed by the program offices across the FDA and reported on a monthly basis. Each quarter, monthly performance data is analyzed and senior managers present this data to FDA senior leadership.
This website enables all interested external and internal visitors to view FDA’s performance data at the program office level and gain a better understanding of the breadth of FDA’s core responsibilities, as well as see progress on important projects and programs.
04.15.10 --
HL7 Recommends Certification of PHRs, EHR Interoperability -
The standards organization Health Level Seven recently sent a comment letter recommending that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT develop processes to certify personal health records and the interoperability of electronic health records, Health Data Management reports.
09.13 - 09.16.10 : 2010 PDA/FDA Joint Regulatory Conference : Inspired by recent announcements and events in the industry regarding the merger of major pharmaceutical companies, the 2010 PDA/FDA Joint Regulatory Conference will discuss some of the challenges to navigate compliance, achieve worldwide quality improvement and maintain control of quality systems through merging and emerging cultures. Companies are combining work forces and streamlining processes in order to be able to compete in a multinational global marketplace while trying to implement and incorporate emerging global regulatory requirements and complicated product strategies into company cultures. Register before June 21st and save up to $400! And, register 4 people from the same organization as a group (at the same time) and receive the 5th registration free.
Our Mission is to develop trusted Information Technology guidance for the global life sciences and health care communities.
Our Vision is to drive the global development, adoption & practice of trusted Information Technology (IT) guidance.
Our Charter is to facilitate collaborations to develop open publicly available Good Information Practices (GIP) for the life sciences and health care communities using a risk-based approach.