How Your LIMS Can Help You Deliver Top Notch Customer Service: Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog post, we shared two options your lab has for using your LIMS to promote exceptional customer service: EMR integration and a provider portal. We also explored a few features your portal must have to be effective. Here, we’ll continue looking at the provider portal, focusing on specific functionality your lab should consider when partnering with a LIMS vendor for this technology. [Read More]
Astrix Case Study: Waters Empower Custom Fields Development and Validation
Overview
This project involved one of the world’s fastest-growing pharmaceutical companies with an established commercial presence in over 100 different countries and annual revenue of around 15 billion dollars. The company has a wide-ranging portfolio of both name brand and generic therapeutic products that treat many different disease conditions, and also produces medical aesthetics. [Read More]
The COVID Testing Catch-22
The key to managing the pandemic, and why we‘ll never do it perfectly. Everybody agrees the only way to manage the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is to know how bad it is by conducting tests, and lots of them, right? Well of course. How else? But there’s a problem. And there doesn’t seem to be a good solution. There are three types of diagnostic tests (well, really two, one is more of a...
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Sunquest New White Paper: Positioning the Health System to Weather the Storm of COVID-19
Five areas of focus emerge when we look at how best-of-breed technology is helping labs manage through COVID-19. Get the new white paper.
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Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 18, Issue 48
December 8, 2020 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 18, Issue 48 In This Issue Featured Books COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory Featured Content 12/08/2020 - Data Visualization: Make the Most of Your Lab InformaticsYou’ve probably seen the buzzwords data visualization, big data, and machine learning if you’ve been reading a lot in the last year or so. And who hasn’t been reading a lot during 2020—there’s not that much else to do! In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the ways that data visualization tools can help you use accumulated data (even if it’s big data)... [Read More] 12/08/2020…Vet Lab Blends Clinical Diagnostics with State-of-the-Art Technology Using Matrix Gemini LIMS
In this new case study from Autoscribe Informatics BioTe Veterinary Laboratories blends clinical diagnostics with state-of-the-art technology using Matrix Gemini LIMS.
BioTe Veterinary Laboratories is using Matrix Gemini Veterinary LIMS to manage their laboratory workflow and analytical data to drive efficient operations in their new purpose-built laboratory facility.
Methods for quantification of cannabinoids: A narrative review
Many papers have been published over the years describing different methods for quantifying the amount of cannabinoids in Cannabis sativa and other phenotypes, as well as the products made from them. Few have taken to the task of reviewing all such methods while weighing their pros and cons. This 2020 paper by Lazarjani et al. makes that effort, landing on approximately 60 relevant papers for their review. From gas chromatography to liquid chromatography, as well as various spectrometry and spectroscopy methods, the authors give brief review of many methods and their combinations. They conclude that high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) likely has the most benefits when compared to other methods reviewed in this paper, including the ability to "differentiate between acidic and neutral cannabinoids" and "differentiate between different cannabinoids based on the m/z value of their molecular ion," while having "more specificity when compared to ultraviolet detectors," particularly when dealing with complex matrices.
The Sunquest COVID-19 Essential Suite
Quickly stand up COVID-19 testing, including pooled testing, with an end-to-end laboratory solution that includes an ordering and results portal, driver-level instrument connectivity, and a molecular laboratory information management system. [LEARN MORE]
Starting a COVID Testing Lab: Is Now a Good Time?
The answer to that question is easy, YES! Never mind the ongoing daily battles to limit the initial outbreak since March, it is becoming clear, as we transition into Winter of 2020 and the prospect of year two of the pandemic, that what was once acute has now become chronic. And SARS-CoV-2 may be with us for quite some time, if not indefinitely, like the annual flu virus. No matter how our...
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Strategies for Creating Effective Technical Documentation – Part 2
In part 1 of our blog series on creating effective technical documentation, we discussed the different types of users that technical documentation supports, along with the ways in which good technical writing can benefit your business as a whole [Read More]
Laboratory Informatics Pandemic Thanksgiving
In the midst of a global pandemic that is straining the world’s medical systems, researchers, and providers like nothing before in our lifetimes, it can be hard to remember to pause, take stock, and express gratitude where we can. The pandemic has brought some good as a result of the bad. For instance, it has forced us to look for new ways to conduct business and communicate. It has also encouraged us to think outside of the box and change our processes. Businesses were pushed to upgrade old technologies or develop new solutions in order to adapt to the new normal. When you step back to look for the positive in a dreadful situation, there is much to be grateful for. [Read More]
Astrix Case Study – Core LIMS Implementation at Medical Diagnostics Company
A startup medical diagnostics company specializing in tests that identify and characterize tumor cells in blood samples chose to implement a cloud-hosted Core LIMS in their laboratories to support anticipated future growth. The diagnostics company decided that they did not want to rely on the vendor’s services. Core Informatics referred the diagnostics company to Astrix Technology Group.[Read More]
