Public health laboratory modernization, explained.
Guides, white papers, and articles to help laboratory leaders modernize with confidence.
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Laboratory modernization
Roadmaps, buyer's guides, and migration playbooks for moving off legacy LIMS.
AI in the laboratory
How agentic AI supports operations, surveillance, and reporting, responsibly.
Snowflake architecture
Reference architectures for cloud-native public health data platforms.
Security & compliance
HIPAA, NIST, SOC 2, and HITRUST for laboratory systems.
Interoperability
ELR, HL7, FHIR, LOINC, and SNOMED implementation guidance.
Analytics & surveillance
Turnaround time, outbreak signals, and population-health reporting.
Frequently asked questions.
Straight answers about the platform, the AI, and how modernization works.
What is Salus?
Salus is the AI-native operating system for public health laboratories, a cloud-native LIMS built specifically for state, county, and regional labs. It covers accessioning, test management, results, ELR reporting, surveillance, analytics, and AI-assisted operations on a Snowflake foundation.
How is Salus different from a hospital LIMS?
Salus was built from the ground up for public health workflows: high-volume intake from Excel, CSV, and JSON with lab-qualified IDs and 4-digit picks; human, animal, and environmental domains; lab-defined test building with LOINC and SNOMED coding; state ELR feeds; and surveillance, rather than adapted from a clinical hospital system.
What does "AI-native" actually mean here?
AI assistants are embedded across operations: they summarize activity, monitor workflows and turnaround time, surface possible outbreak signals, draft operational reports, and help with ELR validation. AI assists people, it never replaces scientists or makes final clinical determinations.
How does pricing work?
The software license is free to qualified public health laboratories, and there is no setup fee. Production laboratories pay hosting from $15,000 per year, assessed each quarter against actual cloud cost and specimen volume, plus a flat $7,500 per year for maintenance and support, payable to Global Hands, Inc. Laboratories start at $22,500 per year. You may prepay 1 year or 3 years of that published floor to match a grant cycle; unused cloud above the floor is still trued up. There is no lifetime waiver of hosting or maintenance. A Founding Steward gift funds shared platform work and does not replace those operating lines. Custom work is $125 per hour via an approved Global Hands integrator. Bring-your-own Snowflake is available.
Can we migrate from our legacy LIMS?
Yes. Data migration from legacy systems is a core implementation service. We map legacy structures into the modern, normalized Salus schema as part of onboarding.
Does Salus support ELR, HL7, and FHIR?
Yes. Salus generates Electronic Lab Reporting for state feeds and supports HL7 v2 and FHIR, with LOINC for tests and SNOMED CT for coded results, and CLIA as the universal identifier.
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