LIMS Administrator
LIMS ADMINISTRATOR
JOB DESCRIPTION:
San Diego County Public Health Laboratory (PHL) is seeking a dedicated embedded LIMS Administrator resource to work with PHL on a full-time basis. As a LIMS Administrator, this individual will, at a minimum, be working with staff from the Health and Human Services Information Technology Services (ITS) division, the Information Technology Outsourcer (ITO) – Perspecta, and third-party vendors to assist PHL with Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and other IT related projects.…
Cannabinoid, terpene, and heavy metal analysis of 29 over-the-counter commercial veterinary hemp supplements
While the push for the decriminalization of cannabis, its constituents, and the products made from them continues in the United States, issues of quality control testing and standardization persist. Consistent and accurate laboratory testing of these products is required to better ensure human health outcomes, to be sure. However, with the legalization of hemp, it's not just products intended for humans that are being created from hemp constituents such as cannabidiol (CBD); products marketed for our pets and other animals are appearing. And with them an inconsistent, sometimes dangerous lack of testing controls, or so finds Wakshlag et al. in this 2020 paper published in Veterinary Medicine: Research and Reports. The researchers review the regulatory atmosphere (or lack thereof) and then present the results of analytically testing 29 cannabis products marketed for dog use. They found wide-swinging variances in actual cannabinoid and contaminant content, straying often from labeled contents and contaminant standards. They conclude "the range and variability of [cannabis-derived] products in the veterinary market is alarming," and given the current state of regulation and standardization, "veterinary professionals should only consider manufacturers providing product safety data such as COAs, pharmacokinetic data, and clinical application data when clients solicit information regarding product selection."Data Visualization: Make the Most of Your Lab Informatics
You’ve probably seen the buzzwords data visualization, big data, and machine learning if you’ve been reading a lot in the last year or so. And who hasn’t been reading a lot during 2020—there’s not that much else to do! In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the ways that data visualization tools can help you use accumulated data (even if it’s big data)... [Read More]
How Your LIMS Can Help You Deliver Top Notch Customer Service: Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog post, we shared two options your lab has for using your LIMS to promote exceptional customer service: EMR integration and a provider portal. We also explored a few features your portal must have to be effective. Here, we’ll continue looking at the provider portal, focusing on specific functionality your lab should consider when partnering with a LIMS vendor for this technology. [Read More]
Astrix Case Study: Waters Empower Custom Fields Development and Validation
Overview
This project involved one of the world’s fastest-growing pharmaceutical companies with an established commercial presence in over 100 different countries and annual revenue of around 15 billion dollars. The company has a wide-ranging portfolio of both name brand and generic therapeutic products that treat many different disease conditions, and also produces medical aesthetics. [Read More]
The COVID Testing Catch-22
The key to managing the pandemic, and why we‘ll never do it perfectly. Everybody agrees the only way to manage the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is to know how bad it is by conducting tests, and lots of them, right? Well of course. How else? But there’s a problem. And there doesn’t seem to be a good solution. There are three types of diagnostic tests (well, really two, one is more of a...
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Sunquest New White Paper: Positioning the Health System to Weather the Storm of COVID-19
Five areas of focus emerge when we look at how best-of-breed technology is helping labs manage through COVID-19. Get the new white paper.
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IDBS Launches Polar™ in a New Product Category that aims to Streamline and Speed up Biopharmaceutical Development
IDBS, a software informatics solution provider for biotech and pharma, today announced the launch of Polar™, establishing a new product category, BioPharma Lifecycle Management (BPLM), aimed at streamlining drug development and manufacturing in biopharma research.BioTe Veterinary Laboratories Blends Clinical Diagnostics with State-of-the-Art Technology Using Matrix Gemini LIMS
BioTe Veterinary Laboratories is using Matrix Gemini Veterinary LIMS to manage their laboratory workflow and analytical data to drive efficient operations in their new purpose-built laboratory facility. [Read More]
Generis Partner with Cognizant to Deliver Innovative Information Management and Structured Content Authoring Solutions to the Life Sciences
Generis, a leader in content and information management systems for regulated industries, announces its strategic partnership with Cognizant, a global provider of information technology, consulting, and business process services, to deliver innovative information management solutions for Life Sciences.CompuGroup Medical acquires Schuyler House and its successful laboratory information system, SchuyLab
CompuGroup Medical (CGM) is expanding its US presence with the acquisition of Schuyler House, an established developer of laboratory information systems with headquarters in Valencia, California, and offices in Columbia, Missouri.Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 18, Issue 48
December 8, 2020 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 18, Issue 48 In This Issue Featured Books COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory Featured Content 12/08/2020 - Data Visualization: Make the Most of Your Lab InformaticsYou’ve probably seen the buzzwords data visualization, big data, and machine learning if you’ve been reading a lot in the last year or so. And who hasn’t been reading a lot during 2020—there’s not that much else to do! In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the ways that data visualization tools can help you use accumulated data (even if it’s big data)... [Read More] 12/08/2020…Vet Lab Blends Clinical Diagnostics with State-of-the-Art Technology Using Matrix Gemini LIMS
In this new case study from Autoscribe Informatics BioTe Veterinary Laboratories blends clinical diagnostics with state-of-the-art technology using Matrix Gemini LIMS.
BioTe Veterinary Laboratories is using Matrix Gemini Veterinary LIMS to manage their laboratory workflow and analytical data to drive efficient operations in their new purpose-built laboratory facility.
Methods for quantification of cannabinoids: A narrative review
Many papers have been published over the years describing different methods for quantifying the amount of cannabinoids in Cannabis sativa and other phenotypes, as well as the products made from them. Few have taken to the task of reviewing all such methods while weighing their pros and cons. This 2020 paper by Lazarjani et al. makes that effort, landing on approximately 60 relevant papers for their review. From gas chromatography to liquid chromatography, as well as various spectrometry and spectroscopy methods, the authors give brief review of many methods and their combinations. They conclude that high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) likely has the most benefits when compared to other methods reviewed in this paper, including the ability to "differentiate between acidic and neutral cannabinoids" and "differentiate between different cannabinoids based on the m/z value of their molecular ion," while having "more specificity when compared to ultraviolet detectors," particularly when dealing with complex matrices.
The Sunquest COVID-19 Essential Suite
Quickly stand up COVID-19 testing, including pooled testing, with an end-to-end laboratory solution that includes an ordering and results portal, driver-level instrument connectivity, and a molecular laboratory information management system. [LEARN MORE]
Starting a COVID Testing Lab: Is Now a Good Time?
The answer to that question is easy, YES! Never mind the ongoing daily battles to limit the initial outbreak since March, it is becoming clear, as we transition into Winter of 2020 and the prospect of year two of the pandemic, that what was once acute has now become chronic. And SARS-CoV-2 may be with us for quite some time, if not indefinitely, like the annual flu virus. No matter how our...
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Strategies for Creating Effective Technical Documentation – Part 2
In part 1 of our blog series on creating effective technical documentation, we discussed the different types of users that technical documentation supports, along with the ways in which good technical writing can benefit your business as a whole [Read More]
