National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Updates – August 2020
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is our nation’s medical research agency and strives to make scientific discoveries that improve health and save lives. Founded in 1870, the NIH conducts its own scientific research through its Intramural Research Program (IRP), which supports approximately 1,200 principal investigators and more than 4,000 postdoctoral fellows conducting basic, translational and clinical research. In this blog, we will highlight recent ground-breaking NIH research.
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Guide to Laboratory Information Management System Software Validations
Clinical laboratories are often uncertain about the requirements for validation across the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) lifecycle. After your laboratory adopts a new LIMS, you must perform a full LIMS validation prior to using...
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Extending an open-source tool to measure data quality: Case report on Observational Health Data Science and Informatics (OHDSI)
In this 2020 short report from Dixon et al., lessons learned from attempts to expand data quality measures in the open-source tool Observational Health Data Science and Informatics (OHDSI) are presented. Noting a lack of data quality assessment and improvement mechanisms in health information systems in general, the researchers sought to improve OHDSI for public health surveillance use cases. After explaining the practical uses of OHDSI, the authors state their case for why measuring completeness, timeliness, and information entropy within OHDSI would be useful. Though not getting approval to add timeliness to the system, they conclude that high value remains "in adapting existing infrastructure and tools to support expanded use cases rather than to just create independent tools for use by a niche group."
LIMS Data Analytics and Visualization
LIMS Data Analytics and Visualization tools graphically present data from your LIMS, and potentially other applications, to provide powerful business intelligence for your laboratory and organization. Like all LIMS, Matrix Gemini uses a relational database (usually Microsoft SQL or Oracle) to store the LIMS data.
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Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 18, Issue 32
August 11, 2020 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 18, Issue 32 In This Issue Featured Books COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory Featured Content 08/11/2020 - National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Updates – August 2020The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is our nation’s medical research agency and strives to make scientific discoveries that improve health and save lives. Founded in 1870, the NIH conducts its own scientific research through its Intramural Research Program (IRP), which supports approximately 1,200 principal investigators and more than 4,000 postdoctoral fellows conducting basic, translational and clinical research. In this blog,…Advancing laboratory medicine in hospitals through health information exchange: A survey of specialist physicians in Canada
This February 2020 paper published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making examines the state of health information exchange in Québec and other parts of Canada and how its application to laboratory medicine might be improved. In particular, laboratory information exchange (LIE) systems that "improve the reliability of the laboratory testing process" and integrate "with other clinical information systems (CISs) physicians use in hospitals" are examined in this work. Surveying hospital-based specialist physicians, Raymond et al. paint a picture of how varying clinical information management solutions are used, what functionality is being used and not used, and how physicians view the potential benefits of the clinical systems they use. They conclude that there is very much a "complementary nature" between systems and that "system designers should take a step back to imagine a way to design systems as part of an interconnected network of features."
Start or Scale Molecular Testing with Sunquest Mitogen™ LIMS
Sunquest Mitogen LIMS is a cloud-based, scalable, purpose-built solution for executing on molecular and genetic testing. Not only does our offering contain the critical components of a fully-featured molecular LIMS, but also it includes the patient accessioning and reporting features normally seen in a clinical laboratory information system (LIS).
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Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 18, Issue 31
August 4, 2020 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 18, Issue 31 In This Issue Featured Books Past, Present, and Future of Cannabis Laboratory Testing and Regulation in the United States Featured Content 08/04/2020 - New Deployment Model Optimizes LIMS Implementation in the Amazon Web Services CloudThermo Fisher Scientific has expanded deployment model options for SampleManager LIMS software, offering laboratories end-to-end support of the software deployment in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. 08/04/2020 - Start or Scale Molecular Testing with Sunquest Mitogen™ LIMSSunquest Mitogen LIMS is a cloud-based, scalable, purpose-built solution for executing on molecular and genetic testing. Not…Coronavirus Treatments That Work
The current official stance is that there is no real treatment for COVID-19. If you get it, you are told to just go home and tough it out…until/unless you start finding it hard to breathe, or develop other severe symptoms requiring hospitalization. Fortunately, in the vast majority of cases (something like 80%) symptoms are mild, moderate or non-existent. And, moreover, the mortality rate...
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Taking Advantage of LabVantage LIMS Workflows
LabVantage Workflow Designer is a LabVantage LIMS version 8 module that allows users to divide a complex laboratory process into manageable units of work to drive automation throughout the system. The module consists of functionality that guides users through the execution of predefined operations called Tasks. Samples and other laboratory data flow through the workflow,…
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Benchling Case Study Anthology: Pushing the Frontier of Life Science Innovation
From next-generation cell therapies, to CRISPR-based gene therapies, to biologically-derived materials, life science R&D has never been more complex or more varied. But despite the explosion in scientific techniques and applications, modern life science companies have one challenge in common: taming the complexity of their data. Paper notebooks, spreadsheets, and legacy software like ELNs and LIMS can’t handle the complexity of modern life science.
