Our Commitment to Quality
Aegis’s focus on science and technical expertise ensure the highest standards and quality, maximizing operational performance:
Commitment to Quality
In addition to maintaining uninterrupted CLIA certification and state regulatory licensing, Aegis is accredited by the College of American Pathologists. Aegis’ commitment to accreditation ensures that Aegis laboratories operate to the highest standards of quality excellence in the laboratory testing community.
Specimen Integrity
Robust procedures for specimen handling and control are in place to protect the integrity of each specimen. Specimens are assigned a unique identifier which is tracked through a documented chain of custody leveraging RFID technology throughout the laboratory testing workflow to ensure specimen integrity and the reliability of all aspects of the laboratory’s operations.
Proprietary Analysis Techniques
Aegis offers proprietary normetabolite testing methodology which allows for testing of varying metabolic profiles in addition to excreted drug compounds to improve detection accuracy.
Quality Assurance
Aegis’s leading quality assurance program involves regular proficiency testing and routine retesting of blinded samples through the lab as well as routine instrument maintenance, staff training and competency assessment, robust method validation, rigorous internal process and standards-based audits.
Aegis Quality Steering Committee provides oversight to laboratory quality and leads continual improvement program efforts.
Aegis celebrates our low incidence of analytical errors with analytical test reporting accuracy of 99.9998%.
Quality Results
Definitive testing is performed using gas or liquid chromatography mass spectrometry on initial test positives confirming the identity of compounds of interest.
HITRUST CSF® Certification
Aegis Sciences Corporation Achieves HITRUST CSF® Certification to Further Mitigate Risk in Third-Party Privacy, Security, and Compliance
HITRUST CSF Certified status demonstrates that the organization’s Order Entry, Lab Intake Process, Lab Processing and Lab Resulting systems* have met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. This achievement places Aegis Sciences Corporation in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification. By including federal and state regulations, standards, and frameworks, and incorporating a risk-based approach, the HITRUST CSF helps organizations address these challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.
*The certification is for Results and Patient Portal, HORIZON Lab Information Management System, Order Manager by Experian Health and Cloverleaf Integration Engine.
