April 10, 2013      
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update

 Volume 11, Issue 14

 

In This Issue

 Upcoming Webcasts

04/17/2013 - Webinar: Managing Change – Ensuring Lab Informatics Solution Adoption

In this one hour, complimentary webinar, learn how to develop and execute a change management process that is appropriate for your lab informatics solution’s scope of deployment.

04/16/2013 - 21 CFR Part 11 and Annex 11 Compliance; specifics needed to eliminate 483s

This 21 CFR Part 11 compliance training will guide you through the concept of part 11 and explanation of its 3 primary areas SOPs, Product features and Validation (10 step risk based approach).

04/16/2013 - Mobile Medical Applications: Software Regulatory Requirements

This mobile medical apps training will outline the regulatory requirements for medical device software development processes, and the requirements for submissions.
 Bid / RFP / RFI Opportunities

04/08/2013 - Presolicitation Notice - Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)

Furnish all required services to install Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) support for Pine Bluff Arsenal for a period of one year, with four option periods
 Recent News

04/10/2013 - Abbott Unveils New STARLIMS Mobile Apps and Cloud Services for Use in Laboratories

Abbott unveiled Version 11 STARLIMS LIMS software for industrial, clinical and research laboratories, featuring easy and reliable mobile applications for use with smart phones and tablet computing devices. The company also announced global availability of its secure and convenient cloud computing services. Based on Abbott’s STARLIMS informatics technology, the v.11 LIMS software will expand user functionality to include mobile-device applications and advanced analytic capabilities. These features will allow STARLIMS users to work on the right screen for the right task with an expanded platform to access LIMS information anywhere for use in quality assurance functions, raw materials analysis and other needs.

04/10/2013 - Pfizer and GGA Software Services Present Open-Source Electronic Lab Notebook at Bio-IT World Conference in Boston on April 10

GGA Software Services LLC, a leading provider of outsourced scientific informatics and software services to the life sciences industry, announced today that GGA and Pfizer will present Indigo ELN, the industry’s leading open-source chemistry electronic laboratory notebook, at the 2013 Bio-IT World Conference and Expo

04/09/2013 - New Accelrys Externalized Collaboration Suite Moves Research Networks to the Cloud

Accelrys, Inc., a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, has announced the launch of the Accelrys Externalized Collaboration Suite, a software solution designed specifically to address the needs of life sciences organizations engaged in externalized network research.

04/09/2013 - Leica Biosystems Embeds Aspera into Aperio ePathology Solutions

Aspera, Inc (http://asperasoft.com/)., creators of next-generation technologies that move the world’s big data at maximum speed, today announced that the leading provider of ePathology systems, Leica Biosystems, through its Aperio ePathology Solutions, has integrated Aspera’s industry leading Connect Server to move large digital images over ePathAccess worldwide.

04/09/2013 - IBM and CLC bio deliver combined turnkey genomics sequencing analytics solution

Today at the Bio-IT World conference in Boston, IBM and CLC bio announced a combined turnkey next generation sequencing data analytics solution. The combined platform is a scalable end-to-end solution that integrates a computing cluster build on advanced IBM hardware, CLC Genomics Server software for large-scale genomics sequencing data analysis, and CLC Genomics Workbench client software for analyzing, comparing, and visualizing high-throughput sequencing data.

04/04/2013 - Perceptive Informatics Improves Clinical Trial Management With New Release Of IMPACT® CTMS Solution

Perceptive Informatics, a leading eClinical solutions provider and a subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation, today released an enhanced version of its comprehensive IMPACT® clinical trial management system (CTMS).

04/03/2013 - Reduce costs and increase revenue!

The Lab Portal Company’s product Lab-Connector enables laboratories to add new sales channels by giving your provider network the ability to order online, through a secure online portal. Order automation reduces redundant data entry, and increases accuracy of your reports and reduces your turnaround time. With Lab-Connector’s shopping cart module, you can sell directly to consumers or providers and receive payment immediately, while increasing data accuracy. If you can increase your revenue, reduce your turnaround time, reduce IT costs, while generating reports in HTML/PDF/HL7 that your providers and patients love wouldn’t you be interested?
 Upcoming Events

04/23/2013 - INTERPHEX 2013

INTERPHEX is the leading annual pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical trade show. Key decision makers find the networking opportunities, products, services and information they need to ensure quality and maximize efficiency, agility, and flexibility that solve manufacturing and supply chain problems. INTERPHEX is where intelligence and passion intersect with the full spectrum of industry products and services to create new insights and innovation.

04/16/2013 - Drug Discovery Chemistry 2013

Drug Discovery Chemistry is one of the few conferences for medicinal chemists working in pharma & biotech, and is focused on discovery and optimization challenges of small molecule drug candidates. New this year are Constrained Peptides and Macrocyclics and GPCR-Based Drug Design which represent areas of chemistry where evolving technologies are leading to renewed interest. They nicely complement the most popular meetings from the past few years: Anti-Inflammatories, Fragment Based Drug Discovery, Kinase Inhibitor Chemistry and Protein-Protein Interactions.
 Job Postings

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