April 10, 2019 - Back from the AACR Annual Meeting 2019
CloudLIMS is back from the AACR Annual Meeting 2019 held at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, USA. Over 20,000 attendees from across the globe participated in the annual meeting to share their knowledge and discoveries with each other, with the objective of making improvement and progress in cancer research.
To read the complete blog, please visit: https://cloudlims.com/blog/back-from-aacr-annual-meeting-2019.html
April 3, 2019 - PITTCON 2019 Highlights – New twists refresh Pittcon
PITTCON celebrated its 70th year this year making it one of the oldest laboratory shows and still one of the largest US exhibitions we attend. The 2019 format, held at the Philadelphia Convention Center, was similar to last year with a five-day technical program and a three-day exhibition. Many US Labs, large and small, find PITTCON a great place to research LIMS. They are able to compare the main vendors in-depth over the course of the three days and get to understand them enough to make some initial choices and guide their future decisions over user requirements. Unlike in previous years there was no “Informatics” section, so those doing the research had to search out the LIMS vendors from the exhibitors.[Read More]
March 27, 2019 - Improving Laboratory Efficiency with Application Portfolio Rationalization
Industry-leading enterprises have tended to invest heavily in laboratory IT initiatives to drive the innovation necessary to stay competitive while improving laboratory efficiency. These organizations deploy applications for all the right reasons – reduce costs, improve organizational efficiency, drive innovation. Unfortunately, application bloat is an all too common occurrence across large organizations.[Read More]
March 27, 2019 - CloudLIMS @Bio-IT World Conference & Expo ’19, Boston, USA
CloudLIMS is excited to exhibit at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo '19, to be held at the Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, USA, April 16-18, 2019. We are showcasing our secure, scalable, cloud-based SaaS Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), CloudLIMS, at booth 609. We are also presenting a poster titled “Addressing Security and Privacy of Data with Cloud-Based Informatics”.
To read the complete blog, please visit: https://cloudlims.com/blog/bio-it-world-conference-expo-2019.html
March 27, 2019 - CloudLIMS Version 1.81 Released!
CloudLIMS, an advanced cloud-based SaaS LIMS, accelerates biobanking, clinical research, and testing laboratory operations by efficiently managing laboratory data, automating laboratory workflows, and following regulatory compliance such as HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11, ISO/IEC 17025:2017. CloudLIMS is pleased to introduce a new module, the Kits module, in its new version 1.81.
To read the complete blog, please visit:https://cloudlims.com/blog/releases/cloudlims-version-181.html
March 19, 2019 - Guiding Principles for Building a Smart Laboratory
Building a Smart laboratory involves a multi-disciplinary approach and a commitment to move away from traditional paper processes. Many day-to-day, routine laboratory operations are still carried out using manual, paper-based systems for everything from recording test results to managing inventories to documenting and scheduling instrument calibrations. This reliance on paper is not just expensive, it also decreases the efficiency of the laboratory workplace and leaves the laboratory vulnerable to having valuable data misplaced, lost or destroyed. Technological advancements in wireless networks, laboratory equipment, sensor technologies, micro-electronics, informatics software and other areas have helped to spawn a digital revolution in connectivity in the modern laboratory. Forward-thinking organizations are capitalizing on this digital revolution to create highly integrated and automated smart laboratories that help facilitate product quality and efficiency in manufacturing processes, as well as enhanced innovation and product development through data analysis, process monitoring and continuous feedback.[Read More]
March 13, 2019 - Free Vs Commercial LIMS
One of the major challenges faced by laboratories across the world is efficient sample tracking and workflow management. With technological advancements that enable the automation of laboratory operations, implementing an automated management system such as Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is quickly turning into an essential requirement
To read the complete blog, please visit: https://freelims.org/blog/free-lims-vs-commercial-lims.html
March 13, 2019 - CloudLIMS @2019 Cannabis Science Conference East, Baltimore, USA
CloudLIMS is pleased to announce its participation at the 2019 Cannabis Science Conference East, to be held at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, April 8-10, 2019. We are showcasing our secure, cloud-based, ISO/IEC 17025:2017 compliant Cannabis LIMS
To read the complete blog, please visit: https://cloudlims.com/blog/cannabis-science-conference-2019.html
March 13, 2019 - New Trump Policy Makes Integrated Health Records a Reality
Today, I read a published Fortune magazine article written by Jared Kushner, Chris Liddell, and Seema Verma (http://fortune.com/2019/03/04/ehr-medicare-medicaid-jared-kushner/) entitled: “All Your Health Records in Once Place? This New Policy Could Make That a Reality”.[Read More]
March 6, 2019 - LIMS Selection for Genomics Labs
Next generation sequencing (NGS) is a parallel DNA sequencing technology that is able to carry out hundreds to millions of DNA sequencing reactions in parallel, along with the analysis of the sequencing data that is being produced. Utilizing this high-throughput NGS technology, researchers can now sequence an entire human genome quickly and relatively inexpensively, allowing the utilization of NGS data in scientific research in ways that just 10 years ago would have been considered cost-prohibitive.[Read More]
March 6, 2019 - CloudLIMS @AACR Annual Meeting 2019, Atlanta, USA
CloudLIMS is excited to exhibit at the AACR Annual Meeting 2019, to be held at the Georgia World Congress, Center, Atlanta, USA, from March 29 - April 3, 2019. We are proud to showcase our cloud-based Clinical LIMS, CloudLIMS, at booth 4055, from March 31-April 3, 2019. To read the complete blog, please visit: https://cloudlims.com/blog/aacr2019.htmlFebruary 27, 2019 - Tips for Maintaining Laboratory Data Security
On June 27th, 2017, a massive ransomware attack infiltrated computer systems and locked up files (via encryption) at companies around the world and government ministries in Ukraine. Merck & Co. was among those affected. Merck employees arrived in their offices in the morning to find a ransomware note on their computers with hackers demanding payment to release critical files.
February 20, 2019 - Tips for working with Master Data in LabWare
LabWare’s Enterprise Laboratory Platform (ELP) provides a Laboratory Informatics Management System (LIMS) and an Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) that function together as a single integrated solution with a common, shared database. The LabWare solution provides an extremely flexible platform based entirely on open standards that can be configured to meet nearly any business need. As much of LabWare’s functionality is data and template driven, the design and configuration of the master data (static data objects that are agreed upon and shared across the enterprise) is the most important aspect of any LabWare system. For both the initial implementation and ongoing activities, master data configuration has a dramatic impact on scalability and system maintenance activities. In this blog, we present a number of tips for master data configuration that will help to keep the core of your implementation solid and help to ensure that the system delivers a superior return on investment (ROI) over its lifetime for your organization.[Read More]
February 20, 2019 - Introducing Biotech Laboratory Informatics as a Service (LIaaS)
Biotechnology research and development organizations are finding themselves under pressure from many directions:- Business stakeholders want improved operational efficiency, scalability, and agility, while keeping costs under control.
- Regulators are raising the standards and scrutiny of informatics systems demanding strong demonstrable control of data integrity through the entire lifecycle of laboratory data.
- Vendors of laboratory informatics systems traditionally labelled as LIMS, ELN, LES, LIS, SDMS, CDS are blurring the definitions of their systems as they add capabilities to increase their sales: all vendors are claiming to be able to solve all problems.
