| July 10, 2014 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update | Volume 12, Issue 25 | | In This Issue | Webcast Focus | 07/16/2014 - Get the Most from your SampleManager LIMS™ Join us as we share and explore some of the highest productivity enhancing capabilities of SampleManager LIMS™, extending and enhancing your system and what information you need to decide if upgrading your system would be worth the time and effort.
| Articles | What Happened to Phase 2 of your LIMS Implementation? It’s a funny thing but if you ask anyone who has been involved in the LIMS industry for any length of time, they will uniformly agree that Phase 2 of LIMS implementation projects rarely, if ever, come to fruition. Is this because breaking a LIMS implementation into multiple phases is wrong? Not really. There are perfectly good reasons to do so like:
| Bid / RFP / RFI Opportunities | 07/10/2014 - Laboratory External Quality Assessment (EQA) Database development Application for Kenya The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Global HIV and AIDS Program (DGHA) is supporting the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This request for proposals (RFP) is one component under the overarching PEPFAR goal to strengthen health system capacity and services in Kenya. This RFP solicits offers from qualified information technology software providers and developers to create an electronic system for managing the activities and data related to the External Quality Assurance (EQA) programs administered by the Kenyan Ministry of Health (MOH) National Public Health Laboratory Services (NPHLS). This RFP is only in reference to the software necessary to support these activities.
06/25/2014 - Request for Information- Laboratory Information Management Systems Massachusetts Department of State Police - Crime Lab - Request for Information (RFI) in order to solicit information from all interested manufacturers and agents on the topic of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
| Recent News | 07/09/2014 - SLAS Announces Fall 2014 Educational Webinar Lineup The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) recently announced its fall 2014 schedule of educational webinars. The lineup includes: Development of a Fully Automated Ultra-High Throughput Flow Cytometry Screening System to Enable Novel Drug Discovery; Making a Quantum Leap in Mass Spectrometry Throughput with Acoustic Dispensing; New Advancements in Paper-Microfluidic Point-of-Care Diagnostics
07/08/2014 - Psyche Systems Corporation's LabWeb Achieves ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular EHR Certification from ICSA Labs Psyche Systems Corporation's, LabWeb® Version 8 has achieved ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular EHR certification, which designates that the software is capable of supporting eligible laboratories and hospitals with meeting the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
07/08/2014 - New Immunogenicity Analysis Tool Emerges from Dartmouth-EpiVax-URI Collaboration "In Silico" Host Cell Protein for Protein Therapeutics A Public-private partnership resulted in the development of a new web-based tool that will help manufacturers of protein-based therapeutics improve the safety of their manufacturing processes, avoiding problems that caused the FDA to suspend a clinical trial in 2012 for a Factor IX protein.
07/08/2014 - MediSafe Expands into Wearables During Google’s I/O Developer Conference; Releases 1st Medication Management App for Android Wear Smartwatches At Google’s I/O Developer Conference last month, MediSafe (www.medisafeproject.com) expanded its leading medication management platform to include wearables, becoming the first mobile health app on Google’s just-announced suite of Android Wear smartwatches.
07/03/2014 - Database Management Systems Provider Reports Record Sales Autoscribe Informatics, a leading provider of database management systems, has reported record sales for the first quarter of the 2014-15 financial year. Autoscribe’s flagship product, Matrix Gemini, is used in database management applications ranging from Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) to Quality Management Systems.
| Upcoming Events | 08/19/2014 - Next Generation Dx Summit Access to next generation diagnostics will only be gained through careful creation and management of partnerships in the community around development, commercialization, reimbursement and regulation. This year’s Next Generation Dx Summit will showcase advances in personalized medicine through a comprehensive program encompassing companion diagnostics, infectious disease, cancer molecular markers, point-of-care, inherited disorders, cell free DNA and single cell sequencing.
08/18/2014 - The Bioprocessing Summit The Bioprocessing Summit brings together international leaders to discuss today's bioprocess issues from cell line selection to bioproduction. The Summit provides practical details in a relaxed, congenial atmosphere that promotes information exchange and networking.
08/11/2014 - ImVacS: The Immunotherapies and Vaccines Summit | Upcoming Webcasts | 08/01/2014 - Align Your Compliance Efforts with the 2014 OIG Strategy - 5 Key Steps to Avoid OIG Fines on your Referring Physicians and Vendors This OIG compliance training will discuss how to review your company’s practices in conducting business and billing for services rendered by referring physicians and third-party vendors. Learn more about the OIG’s focus in 2014 on your liability with regard to referrals from or conducting business with these key partners in healthcare.
| LIMS Blog Postings | All new LIMS Book & Buyer's Guide released on-line for 2013/14 The new on-line edition of the LIMS Book & Buyer's Guide (http://www.limsbook.com) has just been released today with over double the number of listed vendor products from the 2012 edition. The guide provides a catalog of the industry's top tier vendors with product pricing information and technical details to allow you to compare LIMS/LIS and ELN products. The guide also contains a LIMSpec on each listed product with even more technical details as well as product demonstration videos.
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