Laboratories never stand still. They constantly adapt to internal and external forces of change. Lab managers must anticipate and plan for organizational change to guide their labs’ long-term growth. Properly harnessed, change can become your lab’s competitive advantage. Use your LIMS to eliminate disruptions, embrace technologies, and improve compliance. In turn, your staff will have more time for more productive work while increasing your lab’s testing capacity. [Read More]

Once your lab has adopted an informatics system (or two) and reduced the number of paper processes, you may think that your digital transformation is complete. But there is more that you could do to improve efficiencies and use your lab’s data to inform business decisions. This blog post will help you discover how LIMS integration with other systems and instruments can improve your workflows and boost efficiency, within the lab and across the organization [Read More]

Culture and sensitivity testing is used by veterinary laboratories to determine the presence of potential bacterial pathogens in an animal, and to guide selection of an appropriate antimicrobial treatment. Following identification of potential pathogens, the isolates can be tested for their sensitivity to various antimicrobials. The Matrix Gemini Veterinary LIMS starter system contains a template for a standard Culture and Sensitivity test.  [Read More]

Commercial off-the-shelf laboratory information management systems (LIMS) often come with pre-built protocols to help labs get up and running quickly. But if your lab solely relies on these pre-built protocols, you’re missing out on efficiencies that could give your business a competitive advantage. [Read More]

When developing therapeutic antibodies, selecting only the strongest candidates for further clinical development increases the chances of successful clinical trials. The important decision of candidate selection can only be done right with high quality, accessible data from which insights can be easily drawn. [Read More]

LIMS Wizards, LLC, a global scientific software solutions provider, announces that SampleVision v3.1 has been officially released for all clients and all verticals as of June 12, 2023.  [Read More]

STARLIMS and INFOCOM are pleased to announce they have entered into a strategic partnership. They are combining INFOCOM’s comprehensive presence in the business solutions space and their in-depth understanding of the industries with STARLIMS’ Informatics technology and solutions to grow the market in Japan. [Read More]

Thanks to a new U.S. law, drugs under development no longer need to be tested on animals before being administered to volunteers in human trials. Long-time animal rights advocates have lobbied for this action, while some people working in the pharmaceutical sector have claimed that animal testing may be both expensive and ineffective. What effects will this have on laboratory operations moving forward? What is required in order to adapt to this change? [Read More]

In this 2023 article published in the Journal of Pathology Informatics, Pablo et al. of the University of Washington School of Medicine present their work on developing a web-based application for better supporting the complex workflows of labs conducting pain-management-related toxicology and pathology testing. Noting a lack of support of these workflows among traditional laboratory information systems (LISs), the authors describe their approach to developing a system to meet their needs. After providing background and discussing the development approach, the authors present the results of their system implementation and performance analysis. After some discussion, the authors conclude that the "implementation of a purpose-built application to support reflex and interpretation workflows in a clinical pathology practice has led to a significant improvement in laboratory efficiency," adding that their custom, purpose-built application is able to "reduce staff burnout, reduce transcription errors, and allow staff to focus on more critical issues around quality."