The Laboratory Information Management System – A Simple Solution Delivering Powerful Results

The purpose of this article is to examine the benefit or value a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) can bring to your organization. We have all heard the adage “Time is Money”. In the business world, where bean-counters rule, this simple statement must be embraced if you want to continue to succeed. Time is the fixed or consistent part of the equation. Productivity, or how we use that time, is the variable. So how does a LIMS figure into this equation?

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 2, Issue 42

October 26, 2004Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update  Volume 2, Issue 42   In This Issue  Announcements - LIMSfinder is Seeking Contributing, Editorial Authors    Recent News 10/25/2004 - Beckman Coulter Offers Stem Cell Monitoring System to Clinical Labs on Flow Cytometry System 10/25/2004 - ESP Software Selected by Sacramento Municipal Utility District for Environmental Data Management 10/25/2004 - Data Translation, Inc. Announces LabVIEW 7.1 Support for Its Award-Winning DSP Data Acquisition Hardware 10/25/2004 - Biolog Awarded NIH STTR Grant with Johns Hopkins University to Develop Phenotype MicroArray Technology to Study Yeast Genome 10/25/2004 - Applied Biosystems and MDS Inc. Complete Transaction…

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 2, Issue 41

October 19, 2004Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update  Volume 2, Issue 41   In This Issue  Announcements - LIMSfinder is Seeking Contributing, Editorial Authors    Articles 10/09/2004 - The King is Dead? Long live the King! 09/26/2004 - S.O.F.E. the Foundation of Any Good LIMS    Recent News 10/18/2004 - SAS poised to help life sciences firms implement CDISC data models 10/18/2004 - AgileBio Releases LabCollector v.1.9 10/15/2004 - Pharsight Presentations at the FDA Contribute to the Critical Path Initiative 10/15/2004 - ACD/Labs Reports Unprecedented Study on Accuracy of NMR Prediction Software 10/15/2004 - LabVantages Sapphire Enterprise LIMS Selected by Coors Brewing…

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 2, Issue 40

October 12, 2004Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update  Volume 2, Issue 40   In This Issue  Announcements - LIMSfinder is Seeking Contributing, Editorial Authors    Articles 10/09/2004 - The King is Dead? Long live the King! 09/26/2004 - S.O.F.E. the Foundation of Any Good LIMS    Recent News 10/11/2004 - Computing Solutions, Inc. introduces an automatic trend notification service and representative averaging in its latest version of LabSoft LIMS 10/11/2004 - Blaze Systems Releases BlazeLink v3.2-2 for Instrument Interfacing 10/07/2004 - Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., Announces Agreement with Tegent Technology Ltd. to Establish Distribution in China 10/07/2004 - eGene Inc. announces its…

The King is Dead? Long live the King!

We live in wondrous times... The Internet is becoming a staple of life and the common man is now able to go to space. The times are changing and the old standards are becoming obsolete.

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 2, Issue 39

October 5, 2004Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update  Volume 2, Issue 39   In This Issue  Announcements - LIMSfinder is Seeking Contributing, Editorial Authors    Articles 09/26/2004 - S.O.F.E. the Foundation of Any Good LIMS 09/26/2004 - Diversification of the Municipal Laboratory    Recent News 10/04/2004 - LABLOGIC RADIO HPLC SOFTWARE SATISFIES CFR PART 11 10/04/2004 - BioImage issued US patent - - Split-GFP assays enable drug discovery through studying protein:protein interactions 10/04/2004 - COLT Technologies Acquires Worldwide Licensing Rights to a New Technology Designed to Rapidly Diagnose 'Mad Cow Disease' -BSE- 10/04/2004 - Stevens Introduces Mini Analyzer for Enhanced Water and…

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 2, Issue 38

September 28, 2004Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update  Volume 2, Issue 38   In This Issue  Announcements - Call for Papers, Articles & Case Studies    Articles 09/26/2004 - Diversification of the Municipal Laboratory 09/15/2004 - Extra! Extra! Read all About it! - LIMS industry consolidates    Recent News 09/27/2004 - Datastream Announces Latest Oil & Gas Success: Murphy Sarawak Oil Co., Ltd. Deploys Datastream 7i 09/27/2004 - COMPUTING SOLUTIONS, INC. INTRODUCES REPRESENTATIVE AVERAGING AND AUTOMATIC TREND NOTIFICATION IN LabSoft LIMS v7.14 09/26/2004 - IntelliChem Provides Global ELN Solution to AstraZeneca 09/24/2004 - InnaPhase Corp. Named One of Delaware Valleys Fastest Growing…

S.O.F.E. the Foundation of Any Good LIMS

The “Monster LIMS” of the past could be the dinosaurs of the Lab Industry. These huge under takings have given the LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) acronym a bad name. Many companies have spent hundreds of thousands or even millions on a product that is so complicated and resource draining that it sometimes never gets off the shelf.

Diversification of the Municipal Laboratory

Since the early 1990’s we in the environmental lab industry have seen many changes in the laboratory operation. The huge contract laboratories have combined, absorbed or just plain disappeared. Midsize labs became giants or also vanished with the environmental dollars. The small laboratories have been under the watchful eye of government, big brother, and anyone else that pays the bills.

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 2, Issue 37

September 21, 2004Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update  Volume 2, Issue 37   In This Issue  Announcements - Call for Papers, Articles & Case Studies    Articles 09/15/2004 - Extra! Extra! Read all About it! - LIMS industry consolidates    Recent News 09/20/2004 - University of Utah's Center For Human Toxicology Selects ChemWare's HORIZON Laboratory Information Management System For New Laboratory 09/17/2004 - Clinical Response Prediction: New Service from Bayer Technology Services and Physiomics 09/17/2004 - Matrix MRDS Radiation Threat Detection Network Launched at U.S. Maritime Security Expo 09/16/2004 - InfoWorks CS adopted for Sewer Master Planning in Hangzhou City, China 09/16/2004…

Extra! Extra! Read all About it! – LIMS industry consolidates

Innaphase has been acquired by Thermo. What's next?

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 2, Issue 36

September 16, 2004Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update  Volume 2, Issue 36   In This Issue  Announcements - Call for Papers, Articles & Case Studies    Articles 09/15/2004 - Extra! Extra! Read all About it! - LIMS industry consolidates    Recent News 09/13/2004 - LimsLinkExpress Reduces the Cost of Instrument to LIMS Interfacing 09/10/2004 - Bayer HealthCare to License Accelrys Software 09/09/2004 - National Instruments Hosts Technical Conferences in 91 Cities Worldwide 09/09/2004 - IntelliChem Announces Release of Universal ELN Solution 09/08/2004 - Werum and S.E.A. Present Wind Tunnel Control System 09/08/2004 - Bioimagene Launches; Introduces an Innovative Solution to Enable Digital…