The BENCH software suite

• BENCH lab

  Genetic analysis made fast, precise and cost effective.

  • High-throughput variant annotation and filtering
  • Integrated clinical knowledge resources
  • Powerful lab and clinical report generation

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• BENCH clinic

  Enhancing patient care through accurate genetic interpretation.

  • Online electronic assay request forms
  • Intelligent filtering and scoring to fine-tune genotype-phenotype matching
  • Access to extensive patient case databases

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• BENCH consortium

  Sharing knowledge.

  • Joint charting of genetic variants
  • Ensure data quality, integrity and compatibility across the consortium
  • Compare individual cases with true confidentiality

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BENCH software suite: functional overview

BENCH software suite functional details

• BENCH software helps you to reduce laboratory turn-around times

  Accurate analysis and correct interpretation of test results is usually a difficult and time consuming task. By supporting an integrated phenotype input from clinics (to narrow down the field of search), speeding up the initial genetic variant filtering, and providing easy access to relevant public knowledge and the lab’s own case history, a very significant improvement in analysis and interpretation time can be realized (up to 50% faster in some cases).

  The BENCH platform will not only speed up the clinical interpretation, it will also help you to standardize the process. This means your clinical work flow can be described in Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and will assure a consistent reporting of test results.

• BENCH software optimizes the analysis function at both lab and clinician level

  BENCH helps clinicians to quickly and accurately select relevant information with which to focus on the primary task of confidently providing a clear and early diagnosis and good counseling.

  Timely, accurate diagnosis allows tailored patient follow-up to start early, enables parents to adjust and necessary care decisions to be taken. Clinicians working with Cartagenia BENCH appreciate the standardized clinical interpretation tools, detection of similar prior cases, powerful candidate gene prioritization, and flexible reporting system. With BENCH at their fingertips, time otherwise spent on tedious literature and database review is freed up to focus on the task at hand.

• BENCH software standardizes communication flows

  Cartagenia BENCH streamlines the communication flows between the genetics lab and its customers, i.e., requesters of genetic tests, and supports setup of a paperless assay request work flow. It will help you to avoid additional paper work and administration. It will enable you to capture necessary clinical and request information at request time and in the correct format (through form validation).

  By assisting the process of performing a request, the electronic forms make sure you get access to more and more valuable clinical information about a patient. It gives requesters a better insight into the progress of the work they requested. When the conclusions of a test are available they can be made available electronically via the referrer portal, again cutting out paper reports and winning time in making the report available to the requester, while assuring a secure communication of patient information.

• BENCH software enables confident sharing of knowledge

  BENCH’s standard patient information coding ensures data quality, integrity and compatibility across a consortium of laboratories, which opens the door to joint charting of benign genetic variation in specific, locally-relevant populations. The module automatically performs systematic comparisons between individual cases which can dramatically speed up the analysis of difficult cases. Also, BENCH’s data transfer formats allow efficient transfer of case information to public initiatives (DECIPHER, ISCA, ECARUCA, etc.) with minimal manual intervention.

BENCH software suite: technical overview

Professional training

Cartagenia provides professional on-site training sessions. These training sessions consist of theory, demonstrations, and practical excercises with the BENCH software and will kick-start its use in your routine clinical work.

During the training session we take the time to set up and configure the BENCH software to optimally align with your current lab workflow and speed up introduction of the platform into you daily routine.

Upon request, certificates of the training can be provided.

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