November 17, 2017 - Roche to acquire Viewics, Inc. to provide data-driven lab business analytics and add further digital capabilities along the laboratory value chain

Roche today announced an agreement with Viewics, Inc., a privately held software company focused on laboratory business analytics.

November 17, 2017 - Sunquest Information Systems Partners with NGS Clinical Interpretation Leader, N-of-One

CellNetix, an anatomic pathology laboratory delivering genetic testing services, is working with Sunquest and N-of-One to expand and scale its delivery of excellence in molecular pathology.

November 16, 2017 - DNAmito Inc. to Integrate Genomics-Based Personalized Analysis With Varian’s Oncology Care Management Software Platform to Optimize Physician’s Decisions Regarding Radiation Treatment for Cancer

DNAmito, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) and Varian Medical Systems announced today a development and OEM agreement to integrate Prodecis into Varian's 360 Oncology™ care management software platform.

November 16, 2017 - Edico Genome Announces New Offering: Comprehensive Clinical Genomics Information System

Accelerated end-to-end solution enables clinical labs to rapidly develop and validate sequencing-based laboratory developed tests

November 15, 2017 - NOVEMBER 30 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST: A Guide for Management: Successfully Applying Laboratory Systems to Your Organization’s Work Part 2

When you are considering lab informatics and automation projects, someone is going to ask “what is the return on the investment you’re asking for?”. How do you answer them? That is the purpose of this webinar, the second in this series entitled A Guide for Management: Successfully Applying Laboratory Systems to Your Organization’s Work.

November 15, 2017 - Medidata Selected by ICON to Evolve Image Management and Accelerate Research Goals for Sponsors and Sites During Clinical Trials

Medidata provider of cloud-based solutions and data analytics for clinical research, and ICON, a global provider of drug development solutions and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced a new collaboration to enhance the management of medical imaging during drug development research.

November 15, 2017 - FARO® Announces Acquisition of Dustin Forensics

FARO® announces the acquisition of Dustin Forensics, a digital forensic animation firm based in Adairsville, Georgia. The acquisition of a world-renowned forensics services firm represents the logical next step in actualizing the FARO® vertical business growth strategy.

November 15, 2017 - QIAGEN Advances Precision Medicine by Automating Guidelines on Cancer Variants in Industry-leading QIAGEN Clinical Insight Software

First bioinformatics solution integrating new AMP/ASCO/CAP standards for NGS cancer testing to confidently and quickly report clinical relevance of somatic mutations

November 15, 2017 - Easy scheduling of LIMS activities with Matrix Scheduler

Matrix Scheduler is an optional module for the Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) from Autoscribe Informatics. Users can automatically schedule reports, worklists, registration of samples and more. In this way activities can be managed more efficiently and significant savings in staff time can be made.

November 14, 2017 - A radiopharmacy LIMS with a pedigree second to none

SPECTra is the latest LIMS solution from LabLogic, specifically designed to improve efficiency and compliance within your radiopharmacy.

November 14, 2017 - University of Maryland Division of Translational Radiation Sciences Selects Provantis Preclinical Software Solution

Instem, a leading provider of IT solutions to the global early development healthcare market, announced today that the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD has purchased the Provantis® preclinical software solution to automate and optimize study processes at its Medical Countermeasure (MCM) Program

November 13, 2017 - Translational Software Announces New Pediatric Pharmacogenomic Solution to Help Determine Safe and Effective Medication Prescribing and Dosing Strategies

Translational Software®, Inc. today announced it has co-developed a pediatric pharmacogenomics (PGx) solution in collaboration with Inova Genomics Laboratory

November 11, 2017 - IDBS takes Bioprocess Execution Solution to the Cloud

Latest E-WorkBook Cloud solution extends and strengthens IDBS’ Bioprocess domain offering.

November 9, 2017 - SAP QM vs. LIMS: What’s all the fuss about?

Why is there still such a debate raging between the use and benefits of SAP QM vs. LIMS? Is it a technical issue? A political/control issue? Or is it purely a cost issue? Let’s discuss these points and attempt to determine the true root cause of this debate.

November 9, 2017 - STRmix™ Approved for Use in Four More U.S. Labs

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Kansas City Police Crime Laboratory, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, and Union County (NJ) Prosecutor’s Office Forensic Laboratory have joined 29 other U.S. labs in using STRmix,™ a sophisticated forensic software capable of resolving mixed DNA profiles previously thought to be too complex to interpret.

November 8, 2017 - Check out this Journal article on a new Free open source ELN for Chemists

I think this is something that has been needed for a while for chemists. Here is the journal article from the Journal of Cheminformatics: https://www.limsforum.com/chemotion-eln-an-open-source-electronic-lab-notebook-for-chemists-in-academia/70707/

November 8, 2017 - Genohm Achieves ISO 9001:2015 Certification

Genohm, the makers of SLIMS, the LIMS+ELN platform, has successfully achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification.

November 8, 2017 - Dotmatics Announces Major Expansion of Biologics Capabilities

Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, today announced major global biologics capabilities and the addition of key personnel and workflows that allow discovery teams to capture experiments, processes, and improve decision-support based on a more comprehensive view of project data.

November 8, 2017 - Speakers for NEMC 2018 – Laboratory Informatics Session

Robert Benz, Director of Sales & Marketing for Khemia Software is hosting a session at NEMC based on laboratory informatics. NEMC 2018 will be held August 6-10th in New Orleans (www.nemc.us). If you are interested in speaking, please submit an abstract on NEMC’s website before Jan 29th, 2018 or you may contact Robert directly via email.

November 8, 2017 - Sectra launches vendor-neutral integration for machine learning applications—speeds up access to new technology in healthcare

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra is launching vendor-neutral access to machine learning in its enterprise imaging platform. Sectra customers will be able to utilize Sectra’s own machine learning applications as well as virtually any application, regardless of vendor.