Laboratório Central de Saúde Pública Ms Lacen

Name

Laboratório Central de Saúde Pública Ms Lacen

Legal name

Laboratório Central de Saúde Pública Ms Lacen

Website

https://lacen.saude.ms.gov.br

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

LACEN-MS is a Brazilian state government public health laboratory in Mato Grosso do Sul that provides laboratory testing and epidemiological surveillance services to the SUS public health network, and operates the GAL laboratory environment management software.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Laboratory Services

NAICS

Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories (62151)

SIC

Services-Medical Laboratories (8071)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHLAJAIAM

Laboratory Quality Systems, Accreditation & Proficiency Testing Programs

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Public Health, Government & Regulators/Public Health Laboratories & Reference Testing Networks

Keywords

• Public health laboratory
• Epidemiological surveillance
• Laboratory diagnostics
• Laboratory information systems
• Health informatics software

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Core offering

LACEN-MS functions as the state central public health laboratory for Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, performing diagnostic testing and epidemiological surveillance within the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). It operates the proprietary GAL - Gerenciador de Ambiente Laboratorial software (INPI registration 09.382-1) to manage laboratory workflows, register test results, and coordinate public health laboratory activities. Services are delivered as part of state government public health infrastructure rather than as commercial offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GAL - Gerenciador de Ambiente Laboratorial: Laboratory Environment Manager system registered with INPI under number 09.382-1, protected under Brazilian software law (Lei nº 9.609/1998)

Products and services

• GAL - Gerenciador de Ambiente Laboratorial (Laboratory Environment Manager) Proprietary laboratory management software application used by LACEN-MS to manage laboratory environment operations, register test results, and coordinate public health laboratory activities. It is registered with INPI under number 09.382-1, protected under Brazilian software law (Lei nº 9.609/1998), and currently at version 2.29.
• Public Health Laboratory Testing Services Diagnostic testing and reference laboratory services supporting epidemiological surveillance, disease control, and prevention activities for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, delivered through the SUS public health network.

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Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

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Emerging players

• LabVantage: LIMS provider with deployments in public health and clinical laboratories. Comparable to GAL as a domain-specialized laboratory management platform, though commercially distributed.

Direct peers

• Instituto Adolfo Lutz: The São Paulo state central public health laboratory (LACEN-SP). It performs the same role as LACEN-MS for the state of São Paulo, operating as a government public health laboratory with analogous testing and surveillance functions, making it a state-level direct counterpart.
• LACEN-RJ (Laboratório Central Noel Nutels): Rio de Janeiro state central public health laboratory in the SUS network. Comparable in role, governance, and service scope to LACEN-MS, including epidemiological surveillance and disease control.
• Fundação Ezequiel Dias (FUNED): Minas Gerais state public health laboratory, also part of the Brazilian central public health laboratory network (LACEN-MG). Same mission, governance structure, and SUS integration as LACEN-MS, but operating at a larger state scale.
• LACEN-BA: Bahia state central public health laboratory within the SUS network. Performs the same state-level public health testing and surveillance role as LACEN-MS under a different state health secretariat.

Broad incumbents

• STARLIMS (Abbott): LIMS software suite owned by Abbott, deployed in public health, clinical, and regulatory laboratories. Offers a competing commercial product to in-house tools like GAL.
• Fiocruz (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz): Brazil's most prominent federal public health research and laboratory institution. Operates broadly across public health, infectious disease, and laboratory sciences, overlapping with LACEN-MS's mission but at a much larger national scale.
• LabWare: Established LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) vendor widely used in public health and clinical laboratories globally. Comparable to LACEN-MS's GAL software at the technology/product layer.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific (SampleManager LIMS): Major life sciences instrumentation and software vendor offering SampleManager LIMS used in regulated and public health laboratories. Represents a broader incumbent alternative to LACEN-MS's proprietary GAL system.

Regional players

• Instituto Evandro Chagas (IEC): Pará state public health and research institute performing epidemiological surveillance and laboratory diagnostics. Comparable in function to LACEN-MS but serving a different state and combining research mandates.

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