ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation is the gold standard for testing and calibration laboratories worldwide. It demonstrates your laboratory’s competence, reliability, and adherence to industry best practices. Accreditation formally acknowledges that a laboratory meets the standard’s requirements and has undergone assessment by a competent accreditation body. [Read More]

Good manufacturing practices are the underpinning of every life sciences business. At the heart of the organization, ensuring end user safety is everyone’s goal. In many organizations, the quality management system (QMS), learning management system (LMS), and manufacturing execution system (MES) work together in service of this goal. This blog describes the essential functions of these systems, why they should be validated, and how they can be configured to ensure seamless data flow across your life sciences organization. [Read More]

A laboratory information management system (LIMS) can provide tremendous value to a lab. It can enhance efficiency and productivity, improve data quality, save time, and ensure compliance with traceability and auditability. However, to get the best return on investment, you need to ensure that it’s set up to manage your lab’s entities and workflows properly. [Read More]

This summer, STARLIMS announced the strategic acquisition of Labstep, a cutting-edge Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) platform, with the aim of expanding STARLIMS’ portfolio to be able to support each stage of the value chain, from R&D through commercialization. We had the privilege of sitting down with Labstep’s Founder & CEO, Jake Schofield to discuss what motivated him to launch Labstep and what his strategic vision is for joining the STARLIMS portfolio. [Read More]

The discipline of materials science requires the study of the properties, composition, and structural properties of solid materials. Materials science laboratories play a crucial role in the development and modification of materials to achieve desired properties and improved performance characteristics. Within this context, Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) emerge as invaluable tools, supporting material science laboratories in their critical roles. [Read More]

Environmental Monitoring labs play a pivotal role in studying the environment, ensuring regulatory compliance, and advocating for sustainable practices. The efforts of these skilled laboratory teams play a pivotal role in unraveling the complexities of the environment, safeguarding its well-being, ensuring regulatory compliance, and advocating for sustainable practices. By understanding more about their analyses, we gain an appreciation for the invaluable insights their testing provides. [Read More]

Elab Informatics has been appointed as distributor of Autoscribe Informatics prestigious Matrix Gemini LIMS in India. Until now Elab Informatics has focused on growing its Lab Informatics consulting services. This agreement enables Elab to also sell and support Matrix Gemini LIMS software in addition to offering configuration and informatics consulting services to clients. [Read More]

With the experience of thousands of laboratory management system deployments of Clinisys Laboratory Solutions™ under our collective belts, we at Clinisys have vast experience implementing laboratory information systems (LIS) and laboratory information management systems (LIMS) software for laboratories with specialties that represent the full range of clinical, scientific, and environmental laboratories, including forensics, toxicology, public health, agronomy, water, wastewater, soil, air, and food and beverage. [Read More]

In this article published in BMC Medical Education, Xu et al. present their four-stage clinical biochemistry teaching methodology which incorporates elements of the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 15189 standard. Noting a lack of student awareness of ISO 15189 Medical laboratories — Requirements for quality and competence and the value its emphasis on quality management brings to laboratories, the authors set upon incorporating the standard into a case-based learning (CBL) approach. After the authors describe the details of their approach and the survey-based results analysis of its outcomes, the authors conclude that outside of improving student outcomes in clinical biochemistry, "ISO 15189 concepts of continuous improvement were implanted, thereby putting the concept of plan–do–check–act (PDCA) into practice, developing recording habits, and improving communication skills."