Public Health Informatics

Good morning Paula,

We use the Lab Web Portal here at MO SPHL for all clinical testing. Cody Joens, cody.joens@health.mo.gov is our lead for the program. If you would like to learn more about how we validating our Lab Web Portal users, please feel free to reach out to him.

Thank you!

Respectfully,

Shanna West | Deputy Director

Missouri State Public Health Laboratory

101 N. Chestnut St., PO Box 570

Jefferson City, MO 65102-0570

Office: 573-751-1332

Informatics Main: 573-522-9560

Laboratory Main: 573-751-3334

MSPHLInformatics@health.mo.gov

https://health.mo.gov/lab/

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We require all users be authorized by the lab manager or other authorizing individual at their facility.  We have a form the authorizing individual fills out and signs, listing which users they are authorizing and what level of access they need.  Then each user must sign an individual user attestation/agreement before their user account will be activated.  For users such as mid-wives, we have them fill out the authorization form and user form for themselves.

Suggest you consult with your IT/legal on the language on the forms.  Our access authorization form has the individual attest they are authorized to designate users for access and that they will inform us when any of the users no longer requires access.  The user forms have mostly standard language about confidentiality and permitted use of the system.

We have people sign a user agreement. Also, they must sign a facility form for new clients where they give us their external IP address.  We whitelist their IP address in our firewall, and they are granted access.    We also do a yearly contact of our clients to verify addresses and people.   If someone is not using their account, we will lock their account.