What is this sensor and does this app need access to it?
We use our mobile phones daily, and many of don't give consideration to whether or not those devices are tracking or monitoring our activities. At the root of this cybersecurity issue is, most frequently, the permissions given to one or more applications on the device to access one or more sensors contained in the device. The lackadaisical attitude of the average user towards the cybersecurity of their mobile device can be attributed to a variety of aspects, including poor education regarding smartphone use, low public awareness, and ignorance due to developers' stealthy or "permission hungry" methodologies. Mehrnezhad and Toreini discuss these issues and more at length in this 2019 paper published in Informatics, concluding that while "teaching about general aspects of sensors might not immediately improve people’s ability to perceive the risks," over time users may "successfully identify over-privileged apps" and make more informed decisions about "modifying the app permissions, uninstalling, or keeping it as-is."
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New Virtual TruScan RM App Enables Method Validation in the Cloud
A new virtual companion to the Thermo Scientific TruScan RM Handheld Raman Analyzer is available for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers that continue to move toward more efficient modern digitization and cloud computing. This first-of-its-kind digital tool enables reprocessing of spectra using TruScan RM's algorithm in the cloud and allows for method validation without a physical sample.
Edinburgh Instruments Ltd Joins Bio-Rad’s KnowItAll Raman Spectral Identification Partner Program
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced that Edinburgh Instruments Ltd. has joined the KnowItAll Raman Spectral Identification partner program.PETra – the LIMS of choice at Leiden University Medical Center
PETra PET LIMS is chosen by LUMC for GMP radiochemistry facilityLaboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 17, Issue 47
November 20, 2019 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 17, Issue 47 In This Issue Upcoming Webinars 11/21/2019 - Webinar: Clinical Decision Support Implementation Do’s and Don’ts - How to Optimize and Stabilize Your Solution12/05/2019 - Webinar: Tools for the Food and Beverage Lab Featured Books The Complete Guide to LIMS & Laboratory InformaticsThe Laboratories of Our Lives: Labs, Labs Everywhere! Journal Articles Building infrastructure for African human genomic data managementGenomic and sequencing data are inherently complex and have significant storage requirements. They require a robust infrastructure with well-considered policies to make the most of their potential. While North America…AI meets exascale computing: Advancing cancer research with large-scale high-performance computing
In this 2019 review paper published in Frontiers in Oncology, Bhattacharya et al. describe the state of collaborative, artificial-intelligence-based computational cancer research within various agencies and departments of the United States. The researchers point to three major initiatives that aim "to push the frontiers of computing technologies in specific areas of cancer research" at the cellular, molecular, and population levels. They present details concerning the three initiatives, enacted as pilot programs with specific goals: Pilot One "to develop predictive capabilities of drug response in pre-clinical models of cancer," Pilot Two "on delivering a validated multiscale model of Ras biology on a cell membrane," and Pilot Three "to leverage high-performance computing and artificial intelligence to meet the emerging needs of cancer surveillance." Additionally, emerging opportunities and challenges that continue to arise out of these pilots are also addressed, before concluding that "opportunities for extreme-scale computing in AI and cancer research extend well beyond these pilots."
Health Informatics: Data and Interoperability Standards
This is a Georgia Tech-created course that is released on the edX platform. The self-paced five-week course is designed to help learners to better understand "the key standards for representing and sharing healthcare data." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $99. The course requires on average 10–11 hours a week of effort. Additionally, this course is part of Georgia Tech's professional certificate program titled Health Informatics on FHIR, for those wanting to take all three courses for their professional cert'.
Complimentary Webinar: Preparing for an ISO 17025 Audit: What to expect from a LIMS?
November 06, 2019, CloudLIMS, an ISO 9001:2015 certified informatics company, is pleased to announce a complimentary webinar titled “Preparing for an ISO 17025 Audit: What to expect from a LIMS?” on November 19, 2019, at 12 PM EST (5 PM GMT).Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Membership of the Pistoia Alliance
Thermo Fisher Scientific has become a member of the Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance of life science companies, vendors, publishers and academic groups working to lower barriers to innovation in life science and healthcare R&D through pre-competitive collaboration.
Sapio Sciences Announces the Availability of Exemplar ELN 12.0
Sapio Sciences is pleased to announce the availability of Exemplar ELN 12.0, a web-based or on-premise Electronic Lab Notebook. Exemplar ELN 12.0 extends Sapio's leadership position in the ELN space with the most responsive and feature rich ELN that fully runs in the leading web browsers.Proscia® Introduces New Enterprise-Scale Features on the Concentriq® Digital Pathology Platform for Life Sciences Companies
Proscia, a leading provider of digital pathology software, announces the Fall 2019 release of its Concentriq platform, along with a global collaboration with Dell Technologies, to help life sciences companies accelerate the adoption of digital pathology at an enterprise scale. Today’s news includes significant product enhancements for more easily managing massive multi-site studies on the Concentriq platform, which is now optimized for cost, scale, and support with Dell Technologies’ enterprise solutions.The new PETra PET LIMS Report Designer update is now available
PETra PET LIMS' new and improved Report Designer, With the latest PETra update comes a new Report Designer that has been redeveloped to not only look better, but to increase speed when saving reports.Reducing the Cost of Computer Systems Validation Efforts Through Risk Assessment
Computerized systems have been widely adopted by the pharmaceutical industry and are frequently used for instrument control and data evaluation, documentation, transmission and archiving in laboratories. The FDA requires that all computer systems in regulated environments be validated in a documented process known as computer system validation (CSV). CSV serves to verify that a computerized system does exactly what it is designed to do in a consistent and reproducible manner.
For regulatory compliance purposes, CSV confirms the accuracy and integrity of data created, modified, archived, retrieved and transmitted by a computer system in order to ensure product safety and effectiveness. Computer system validation is required when configuring a new system or making a change in a validated system (upgrades, patches, extensions, etc.).
Depending on the complexity and functionality of computer systems, CSV can be a significant undertaking. Pharmaceutical companies have even been known to delay upgrading applications to avoid the validation effort required. In this blog, we will provide some tips on performing a risk-based CSV in order to dramatically lower the costs of validation efforts.
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The Essential Capabilities of a 21st Century CHRO
Change is clearly a dominant theme in the 21st century. With modern trends like the digital revolution, globalization, talent shortages, greater workforce mobility, and a multigenerational workforce, long-established business models are facing disruption on many different fronts, and companies seeking to maintain competitive advantage must be more agile and flexible than ever before.
One of the keys to business success in today’s volatile economic environment is attracting and retaining the best talent. As such, industry leading organizations are recognizing the importance of the role of HR leaders to their continued success. Once known for simply managing traditional personnel and administrative tasks, roles for Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) are evolving beyond siloed people initiatives.
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Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 17, Issue 46
November 13, 2019 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 17, Issue 46 In This Issue Upcoming Webinars 11/20/2019 - Webinar: Don’t roll the dice on your lab informatics implementation – Fill each required role with care12/05/2019 - Webinar: Tools for the Food and Beverage Lab Featured Books The Comprehensive Guide to Physician Office Laboratory Setup and OperationNext-Generation Sequencing: A Brief Introduction Journal Articles Process variation detection using missing data in a multihospital community practice anatomic pathology laboratoryIn this brief journal article by Ochsner Health System's Gretchen Galliano, a case is made for a programmatic approach to analyzing missing data in…Building infrastructure for African human genomic data management
Genomic and sequencing data are inherently complex and have significant storage requirements. They require a robust infrastructure with well-considered policies to make the most of their potential. While North America and Europe have helped lead the way in this goal, Africa is behind them in the adoption of genomic technologies. Parker et al., of the Human Hereditary and Health in Africa (H3Africa) program, have taken on the challenge of provisioning and managing the infrastructure required to meet the goals of various Africa-based genetic research projects. This paper describes the H3Africa Data Archive, "the first formalized human genomic data archive on the continent." The authors discuss their process and findings, also noting various challenges that presented during the implementation process, as well as recognizing the various benefits from such a project.
OnQ Software at ALMC 2019
OnQ Software will be exhibiting at the Australasian Laboratory Management Conference held at Rosehill Gardens, Sydney between 11th-13th November 2019.
Come and visit us at Booth #14 to gain further insight on how a Lab Grown LIMS can assist your Laboratory Operations!
Catch Nick Gannoulis, Managing Director of OnQ Software, provide an exciting presentation on "Agile Implementation for LIMS Business Intelligence"
See you there!
Utilizing the BIOVIA ELN with Pipeline Pilot to Enhance R&D
The BIOVIA ELN is a crucial technology that works with Pipeline Pilot in a seamless fashion. Modern laboratory technologies such as Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) and LIMS have made enormous amounts of data available to scientists in life science laboratories. Scientists that are recording, managing and archiving research data in paper notebooks and performing tasks manually simply cannot keep up with this deluge of data. These paper-based methods lead to scenarios where much collected data is siloed and never analyzed, while many experiments end up being needlessly repeated.
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Astrix to sponsor the 15th Annual Laboratory Informatics Summit
Astrix Technology Group is a proud sponsor of the 2019 Laboratory Informatics Summit this year in Boston, MA from November 18th-20th. The 15th Lab Informatics Summit 2019 will bring together senior IT and Lab Informatics leaders from large and small-mid pharma companies to discuss best practice in driving lab efficiencies through practical solutions. The Summit will focus on the strategic considerations necessary to overcome crucial challenges in data integration, cloud migration and management, standardization, data lake creation, interoperability and lab scalability. In addition, attention will be given to important, day-to-day, tactical case studies and lessons learnt that will equip the community to better solve these challenges.
Dave Dorsett, Astrix’s Principal Software Architect, will be co-facilitating an interactive roundtable discussion on November 19th at 11:10am entitled: Can Your Informatics Architecture Really be Agile and Interoperable in a Legacy-Based Environment?
This conference includes pre-conference workshops, keynote presentations from industry leaders, roundtable and panel discussions, informative presentations and case studies, and more.
We look forward to seeing you in Boston!
