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.
Latest Version Of Matrix Gemini LIMS Continued commitment to improving laboratory management and quality
Booth 3527, Pittcon 2019, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19– 21 March 2019Pittcon 2019 sees the latest version of Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) from Autoscribe Informatics.
HFSA Partners With XpertDox To Launch XpertTrial, A Clinical Trial Recruitment Platform, To Accelerate Medical Research
The Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) and XpertDox today announced the launch of the XpertDox product, XpertTrialTM, a clinical trial search and engagement platform. The XpertTrial platform will provide patients and providers with the most up-to-date information regarding actively-recruiting, U.S.-based heart failure related clinical trialsXIFIN Supports Diagnostic Provider Patient and Physician Engagement Objectives with New RCM and LIS Capabilities
XIFIN, Inc. today announced expanded patient and physician engagement capabilities, building on its commitment to being a valuable partner to diagnostic providers and delivering on the vision of optimizing the efficiency of healthcare.Autoscribe Informatics Appoints New LIMS Distributor in India
Autoscribe Informatics has appointed NV Genomics as distributor in India for the Matrix family of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). NV Genomics, based in Delhi, is a leading service and support provider in the Biobank and Genomics domain in India, with a strong customer base in both Medical and Research sectors.
EasyRx announces agreement to acquire Jenmar International
EasyRx, a cloud-based universal lab prescription, digital workflow and 3D software platform announced they have signed an agreement to acquire laboratory management software provider Jenmar International.ZEISS ZEN core software suite offers new analysis and connectivity modules
ZEISS ZEN core is a powerful software suite for microscopy imaging, automated analyses, and multi-modal workflows in connected materials laboratory environments. With the new release, materials researchers are now even more efficient.Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 17, Issue 9
February 27, 2019 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 17, Issue 9 In This Issue Upcoming Webinars 03/05/2019 - Webinar: 2019 Healthcare Cybersecurity Risks: What You Need to Know03/13/2019 - Linking a Dashboard, LIMS, ELN and Project Management03/20/2019 - Webinar: A Trilogy on Using Machine Learning to Impute Laboratory Test Results Journal Articles A view of programming scalable data analysis: From clouds to exascaleFrom bioinformatics applications to social media research, the volume and velocity of data to manage continues to grow. Analysis of this massive faucet of data requires new ways of thinking, including new software, hardware, and programming tools.…A view of programming scalable data analysis: From clouds to exascale
From bioinformatics applications to social media research, the volume and velocity of data to manage continues to grow. Analysis of this massive faucet of data requires new ways of thinking, including new software, hardware, and programming tools. In this 2019 paper published in Journal of Cloud Computing, Domenico Talia of the University of Calabria in Italy presents a detailed look at exascale computing systems as a way to manage and analyze this river of data, including the use of cloud computing platforms and exascale programming systems. After a thorough discussion, the author concludes that while "[c]loud-based solutions for big data analysis tools and systems are in an advanced phase both on the research and the commercial sides," more work remains in the form of finding solutions to a number of design challenges, including on the data mining side of algorithms.
Siemens updates NX Software with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to increase productivity
Siemens announced today an expansion of the Digital Innovation Platform with the introduction of the latest version of NX™ software, which has been enhanced with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.QuartzClinical Announces Cutting-Edge Machine Learning-Powered Data Warehousing and Clinical Registry Tools
At the HIMSS19 conference in Orlando, Florida, QuartzClinical announced the availability of a new suite of sophisticated machine learning-powered data warehousing and clinical registry tools. With bank-level encryption and native HIPAA compatibility, these new tools solve the issues present in the prior generation of software tools while automating the data acquisition, storage, and retrieval needs faced by today's healthcare enterprises.CloudLIMS February 2019 newsletter is now out
CloudLIMS February 2019 newsletter is now out. It contains information about our latest releases.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.
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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.
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19 2019 Dutch university hospital chooses Sectra for digitizing pathology for primary diagnostics
Sectra has received an order from Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc) in the Netherlands for its IT solution for digital pathology. The solution will enable pathologists to review and collaborate around cases in a way that is not possible with microscopes. This will increase efficiency in primary diagnostics, thereby improving cancer care.Latest Version Of Matrix Gemini LIMS Continues Commitment to Improving Laboratory Management and Quality
Key Improvements in Matrix Gemini LIMS to be demonstrated at PITTCON 2019
Pittcon 2019 sees the latest version of Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) from Autoscribe Informatics. This release continues the company’s philosophy of supporting organizations in meeting the demands of regulators and industry standards. It also provides the flexibility to meet changing laboratory and business needs and enables innovation and change through the use of powerful configuration tools. Enhancements to the system have been designed to improve laboratory process management and access to, and visualization of data and information.
Proscia Releases Commercial Research Edition of its Concentriq Digital Pathology Platform
Proscia, a pioneer in the development and advancement of digital pathology, has released a new edition of Concentriq, the company’s flagship digital pathology platform. The new Concentriq Commercial Research Edition is a comprehensive image management solution purpose-built to help life sciences organizations more readily incorporate pathology data into research, discovery, and clinical trials.Organizational Change Management for a Successful Lab Informatics Project
What do you call success? When it comes to a laboratory informatics implementation, the answer often depends on your perspective. A vendor may define success as getting the product into the production environment. A project manager might define success as an on-time, in scope, and on-budget delivery. And though both are common criteria for defining project success, on their own they are insufficient.
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Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 17, Issue 8
February 20, 2019 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 17, Issue 8 In This Issue Upcoming Webinars 02/22/2019 - KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPI'S) FOR LABORATORIES02/25/2019 - Free LABTrack Webinar – Justifying an ELN02/26/2019 - Astrix Webinar – Designing LabWare Solutions for Maintainability and Scalability02/27/2019 - Webinar: Implementing and Validating a CDS – Things to Consider Journal Articles Transferring exome sequencing data from clinical laboratories to healthcare providers: Lessons learned at a pediatric hospitalWe go back in time a year for this brief paper published by Swaminathan et al. of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio. The researchers present their experiences handling…Transferring exome sequencing data from clinical laboratories to healthcare providers: Lessons learned at a pediatric hospital
We go back in time a year for this brief paper published by Swaminathan et al. of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio. The researchers present their experiences handling the nuances of transferring large genomic data files of individual patients to a sequencing lab, all while handling the security and privacy protections surrounding the data. Handling only 19 patients' genomic files, at least initially, presented a number of workflow and protocol challenges for both hospital and laboratory. They conclude with barriers (file size and workflow management consistency) and suggestions (EHR-based alerts, blockchain) about what could be improved with such data transfers in the future to better realize the "massive potential to leverage genomic data to advance human health overall."
