November 5, 2020 - How LIMS Integrations Can Improve Your Clinical Lab’s Performance
All NGS clinical diagnostic laboratories want to run more efficiently—it’s a necessity if they want to remain competitive. They need to streamline laboratory workflows, save on labor costs, and scale their operations to meet demand, such as with the current calls for additional COVID-19 testing capacity. But it goes further than that. To keep their highly skilled employees engaged and reduce human error, they need to minimize both unnecessary duplicated effort and simple repetitive tasks.System integrations can help labs address all of these issues. By bridging the gap between two or more self-sufficient, self-contained systems, they enable the reliable and efficient exchange of information. This helps labs improve their performance and productivity, and scale beyond what would be possible using manual processes.
November 5, 2020 - Sample Tracking is Essential for Organizations that Outsource Laboratory Testing Activities
November 4, 2020 - The Secrets of Successful LIMS Configuration
ABOUT THIS WEBINAR: Are you interested in learning the secrets of LIMS configuration to allow easier modifications, extensions and upgrades? How can you ensure your implementation is successful? Learn what drives successful LIMS projects, unwrap the secrets of configuration, and discover the pitfalls to avoid.
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November 3, 2020 - From the Bench to Benchling
Benchling is a next-gen laboratory informatics platform that is helping life science companies manage increasingly complex data workflows. GEN Edge talks to CEO/co-founder Saji Wickramasekara and Michael Schwartz, Head of Product Marketing. [Read More]November 3, 2020 - Sunquest Mitogen LIMS
Sunquest Mitogen LIMS is a comprehensive and flexible molecular and genetic laboratory information management system. As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the world, Sunquest Mitogen LIMS for COVID-19 is available to labs looking to quickly stand up testing in response to the pandemic.
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November 3, 2020 - COVID-19 Insights: Streamlining lab work in these challenging times
During this pandemic, around half of labs worldwide are shut down and only 14% of labs are fully functional at a time when 100% of labs need to be thriving. Support for labs impacted by the restrictions imposed by the crisis is critical. Tools such as laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs), among other solutions, can help mitigate the impact on life in the lab.
October 28, 2020 - Why a LIMS implementation must use a product approach instead of a project one.
LIMS implementations are often under discussion and get deemed as long term expensive projects with high costs. But why are these implementations so expensive? Do they really have to take many months or years of time? Can we still call it a product if it needs so many additional services? We’ll explain why they don’t need to be so. [Read More]October 28, 2020 - What Is Computer System Validation, and How Do I Do It Right?
The process of software validation ensures that the system fits its intended use and functions as it should. Computer system validation (CSV) for laboratory informatics is essential because regulated businesses must ensure the safety of their products for consumers, and their laboratory informatics systems (LIMS, ELN, CDS) are an integral part of that. Given its… Read MoreOctober 27, 2020 - Tips for SampleManager LIMS Instrument Integration
The following blog will detail SampleManager LIMS Instrument integration best practices and procedures to ensure success.
Technological advances in laboratory instrumentation, along with higher throughput processes, have led to massive increases in the volume of analytical data. One of the main challenges faced by organizations today is turning this vast amount of data into useful information that fuels innovation and enables timely and effective business decisions.
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October 27, 2020 - Summer May Have Ended, but it’s Time to Head to the Pool(ed Testing)
With the end of summer came the return of fall favorites – turning leaves, cooler weather, pumpkin spice, and much more – but also with the fall came flu season, which is particularly worrisome as we battle the COVID-19 pandemic. In Sunquest’s latest blog post, learn how labs can quickly put pooled testing in place to help manage through a fall or winter surge of COVID-19.
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October 27, 2020 - Five Steps to Successfully Convert Your Classroom Training to ELearning
Nearly 70 million strong, Millennials are now the largest generation in the American workforce. This generation is tech savvy and, having grown up with 24/7 internet access, sees the world as being connected through technology. Millennials often prefer to interact with others via e-mails and text messaging as opposed to face-to-face communication. As such, corporate training for the Millennial generation may best be accomplished through internet-based delivery systems.
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October 20, 2020 - An Integrated Approach to Organizational Change Management
The digital revolution is fueling a rapid increase in both data volume and complexity that is fundamentally changing how people work, think and address challenges. Industry leading organizations looking to capitalize on this paradigm shift are reinventing business models and processes using novel data sources and technology (cloud, mobile, data analytics, machine learning, AI and more) in a process known as digital transformation. [Read More]October 20, 2020 - SaaS in the laboratory- Special Times ask for Special Solutions
With the restrictions caused by COVID-19 , the way we work and organise our family lives has changed. We keep social distance, plan our outdoors activities to meet local regulations and we work as much as possible from home. Laboratories are no exceptions, but in practice difficult to structure for remote working. There is a need for tools to help the lab personnel to, partly, work remotely and at the same time to maintain the expected level of accuracy and quality in secure environment. [Read More]October 20, 2020 - LIMS Implementations – Important Lessons Learned
Gain insight into past LIMS implementation projects to learn from their failures and successes so that your deployment can be done right, the first time.LIMS implementation projects can be highly complex IT projects and, therefore, carry the same risks to success as other projects (and not just IT projects). Wouldn’t it be great to have inside knowledge on how other projects have gone, learn from their mistakes, and capitalize on their successes?
October 13, 2020 - Drug Companies Cited Over Lack of Stability Testing
The US FDA provides a comprehensive public record of the citations and warning letters [1] issued to Pharmaceutical Companies. This provides an excellent resource for those looking for guidance to improve quality and mitigate risk. In the 2019 Fiscal year 81 warning letters were issued, the most in recent history, continuing the upward trend of the previous years.
October 13, 2020 - Environmental Monitoring with a LIMS
There are two ways to think about environmental monitoring. In environmental science, it involves field work: wastewater sampling, soil sampling, or outdoor air quality testing. The samples go to a lab, are processed, and results are reported back to the submitter.
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October 13, 2020 - 8 Questions to Ask Your LIMS Project Manager
What should be considered in choosing a LIMS Project Manager (PM) to ensure your LIMS project is successful? What questions should I ask him/her?
October 13, 2020 - On Demand Webcast – The Connected Lab – How digital transformation is changing the way we do science
Watch The On-Demand Webcast as part of our Partner Webcast Series Digital transformation is driven by the ability to better connect all aspects of the laboratory – devices, consumables, workflows, data and people – to accelerate science and drive laboratory productivity. Smart instruments and consumables are enabling laboratories to improve instrument and consumable usage reducing downtime and optimizing the use of laboratory supplies and capacity. [Read More]October 13, 2020 - How to Elevate Your Lab Through Technology
In this eBook, brought to you by Sunquest, learn how and why technology purpose-built for each aspect of laboratory workflow is taking labs to new heights. Understand why a partner that specializes in the lab — and only the lab — delivers greater value on your investment and stronger advantages toward achieving your organization’s strategic imperatives.
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