Posted on February 14, 2024
By STARLIMS Corporation
Blog
With over 14 years of working with STARLIMS, Senior Business Solution Architect at Bayer AG, Tassilo Steffl, knows how to get the most value out of a laboratory information management system (LIMS). In this fireside chat with STARLIMS Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer Brandon Henning, Tassilo discusses some of the key takeaways and benefits from the partnership with STARLIMS.
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Posted on February 14, 2024
By LabLynx
Blog
The proper quality and characterization of construction and engineering materials is critical to a construction project’s long-term success. The analysis of construction and earth materials is driven largely by society’s desire for safer, more durable structures to live, work, and play in. This testing benefits society by saving lives and reducing pre-construction, construction, and post-construction costs.
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Posted on February 13, 2024
By LabLynx
Journal articles
In this 2023 article published in the
National Journal of Laboratory Medicine, Karaattuthazhathu
et al. of KMCT Medical College present the results of a performance assessment of its clinical laboratories' analyte testing parameters using a Six Sigma approach. Examining a six-month period in 2022, the authors looked at 26 parameters in biochemistry and hematology using both internal quality control (IQC) and external quality assurance (EQAS) analyses. After presenting materials and methods used, as well as the results, the authors reviewed their results and concluded that according their sigma metrics analysis, their laboratories are "able to achieve satisfactory results, with world-class performance of many analytes," though recognizing some deficiencies, which were corrected mid-study.
Posted on February 8, 2024
By Corinne Jones
Newsletter
February 8, 2024 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 22, Issue 6 In This Issue Featured Books The Complete Guide to LIMS and Laboratory Informatics - 2024 Edition Featured Content How does a LIMS help a food and beverage business better address the core principles of quality and safety management?Recognizing the importance of quality and safety management at all levels of the food and beverage business, seven principles are discussed, highlighting how they relate to overall quality and safety. A LIMS can be a vital component to an overall quality and safety management plan within the food and beverage laboratory…
Posted on February 7, 2024
By LabLynx
Blog
Recognizing the importance of quality and safety management at all levels of the food and beverage business, seven principles are discussed, highlighting how they relate to overall quality and safety. A LIMS can be a vital component to an overall quality and safety management plan within the food and beverage laboratory for improved quality and safety while minimizing risks.
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Posted on February 7, 2024
By onQ Software
Blog
In the dynamic realm of core labs, where the focus is on unravelling the mysteries of omics—proteomics, genomics, and sequencing—the quest for groundbreaking discoveries is ceaseless. Core labs play a pivotal role in revealing new drug targets, diagnostic methods, and personalised drug therapies, driving the advancement of medical science. This brings to mind the big question “
How to improve core lab operations?”.
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Posted on February 7, 2024
By Astrix Technology Group
Blog
Compliance with industry regulations is non-negotiable in the fast-paced and highly regulated realm of life sciences. Navigating the intricate web of rules and standards is essential to ensure product and service safety, efficacy, and quality. This blog seeks to unravel the complexities of compliance regulations in the life science sector, providing a comprehensive understanding for professionals and organizations operating within this dynamic field.
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Posted on February 7, 2024
By Clinisys
Blog
As consumers, we have a habit of purchasing products with features that fix the symptoms we are experiencing – an approach that often impacts our business choices too. But when it comes to solving laboratory challenges, we need to fully understanding the problem we’re trying to solve and the opportunities we want to harness. Key to this is answering the ‘why’ questions.
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Posted on February 7, 2024
By LabLynx
Blog
Like other materials testing labs, construction and engineering laboratories have standards and regulations that affect their activities, though these are heterogeneous due to differences across local, state, and national accrediting/regulating bodies. These regulations and guidelines mandate a certain level of quality and safety in whatever is getting constructed, as well as where it’s getting constructed.
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Posted on February 6, 2024
By LabLynx
Journal articles
In this 2023 paper published in
Sustainability, Tomich
et al. describe the concept of food systems informatics (FSI) within the context of a collection of this and other paper published as a special collection in the journal. Noting many challenges to improving and transforming food systems, as well as the potential for informatics applications to play an important role, the authors describe five use cases of FSI and discuss the potential outcomes and impacts of developing and implementing FSI platforms in these and other use cases. Finally, the authors draw six major conclusions from their work, as well as several caveats about FSI implementation going forward. They argue that FSI definitely has potential as "a tool to enhance equity, sustainability, and resilience of food systems through collaborative, user-driven interaction, negotiation, experimentation, and innovation within food systems." However, the scope of FSI must be expanded to include " food systems security, privacy, and intellectual property considerations" in order to have the greatest impact.
Posted on February 1, 2024
By Corinne Jones
Newsletter
February 1, 2024 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 22, Issue 5 In This Issue Featured Books The Complete Guide to LIMS and Laboratory Informatics - 2024 Edition Featured Content CSA—To Formally Test or Informally Test, That Is the QuestionThe FDA’s Case for Quality initiative seeks to shift the focus from validation as a check-the-box regulatory activity to one that centers around quality. The shift will ensure that patients and end users have access to safe, effective care. The FDA issued the Computer Software Assurance (CSA) draft guidance in September 2022 to make validation of regulated systems less burdensome and…
Posted on January 31, 2024
By CSols Inc.
Blog
The FDA’s Case for Quality initiative seeks to shift the focus from validation as a check-the-box regulatory activity to one that centers around quality. The shift will ensure that patients and end users have access to safe, effective care. The FDA issued the Computer Software Assurance (CSA) draft guidance in September 2022 to make validation of regulated systems less burdensome and more strategic. This blog will look at what we know about CSA—the good news is that our clients shouldn’t notice many changes in our validation approach.
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