CSols Inc. Launches New QMS, LMS, and MES Validation Services
CSols Inc., the premier laboratory informatics solutions provider in North America, announces the addition of new validation services for quality management system (QMS), learning management system (LMS), and manufacturing execution system (MES) platforms. Organizations now can leverage CSols’s validation expertise across the entire Quality system. [Read More]
Webinar: Respiratory Season Considerations for the Laboratory: The Clinical Utility and Use Cases for a PCR-Based Testing Approach
“It’s respiratory season! In this webinar, Dr. Christopher Michaud will examine the utility of PCR testing for respiratory infection. He will discuss epidemiological respiratory trends and the frequencies of specific organisms that infect our airways. He also will review the literature to explain the utility of currently available diagnostic tools and explore data around multiplex PCR use in clinical settings.…
Request for Proposals: Water Quality Laboratory Services
Solicitation #: 23-82
Whatcom County, Washington’s “Public Works – Natural Resources is seeking a laboratory to analyze water quality samples for fecal bacteria.” See documents for more details.
Due date: 24 October 2023, 2:30 p.m. PDT…
Request for Proposals: Laboratory Information Management System for the University of Iowa State Hygienic Laboratory
Solicitation #: RFP 18167
“The University of Iowa (hereafter, The University/University) located in Iowa City, Iowa, desires to obtain written proposals from qualified Suppliers to provide Laboratory Information Management System software that is currently on the market for the University State Hygienic Laboratory.”…
Webinar: Applying Laboratory Risk Assessments
“This webinar will provide attendees with the fundamental knowledge regarding the timing and methodology for performing risk assessments within their facilities. Speakers will discuss how effective risk assessments can be towards preventing potential risks and applying laboratory risk assessments in different scenarios.…
Webinar: Infor IFOR Empowers: Unleash the Power of HL7 FHIR for Modern Workflows & Data Analytics
“Join us for a transformative webinar exploring the world of HL7 FHIR and its profound benefits for modern healthcare workflows and data analytics. Despite its potential, FHIR adoption remains low, largely due to exorbitant costs associated with EMR vendors and the retrofitting of existing HL7 v2 infrastructure.…
Webinar: How to Measure, Monitor and Manage Quality and Safety in the Era of Machine Learning
“The Harvard Clinical Informatics Lecture Series (HCILS) provides a forum for clinicians and researchers at HMS and beyond to learn the field of clinical informatics. The series addresses core topics in clinical informatics as outlined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education as well as cutting edge research being done nationally.…
Integration of X-ray absorption fine structure databases for data-driven materials science
In this 2023 article published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials: Methods, Ishii et al. describe their cross-institutional efforts towards integrating X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectra and associated metadata across multiple databases to improve materials informatics processes and research methods of materials discovery and analysis. Their new public database, MDR XAFS DB, was developed towards this goal, while addressing two main issues with unifying such data: the difficulties of "designing and collecting metadata describing spectra and sample details, and unifying the vocabulary used in the metadata, including not only metadata items (keys) but also descriptions (values)." After discussing the system's construction and contents, the authors conclude their system "has achieved seamless cross searchability with the use of sample nomenclature so that database users do not have to be aware of the differences in the local metadata of the facilities that provide the data." Though still with some challenges to address, the authors add that while the culture of open data hasn't truly taken hold in materials science, they hope "that this initiative will be a trigger to promote the utilization of materials data."
Webinar: The science of beauty: Exploring characterization techniques in cosmetics
“The creation of innovative cosmetics products with demonstrated effects relies on deep scientific knowledge of biological matrices (skin, hair, tooth), the development of efficient and safe active ingredients, optimized formulations, and an instrumental evaluation of the performance.
In this webinar, Florian Formanek, Global Life Science Market Manager at HORIBA will discuss how HORIBA instruments cover a large panel of cosmetic testing applications, from particle size characterization of emulsions, pigments or fillers, through to the molecular analysis of hair chemistry, surface functionalization with smart coatings or tribology analysis, to the assessment of formulation composition and stability.…
Building a Cybersecurity Toolkit
This is a University of Washington-created course that is released on the edX platform. The self-paced six-week course is designed to help learners to better understand the "type of characteristics and skills needed for cybersecurity jobs and to provide a realistic outlook on what they really need to add to their 'toolkits'—a set of skills that is constantly evolving, not all technical, but fundamentally rooted in problem-solving." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $199. The course requires on average two to five hours a week of effort. This course started in the autumn of 2023, and the free audit track expires on December 4.
Invitation for Bids: Water Sampling and Analysis
Solicitation #: IW157866
“The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is currently seeking emailed quotes to establish a blanket purchase order (BPO) for conducting process control, regulatory permit effluent and sludge analysis at various TDCJ units for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES), permitted waste water treatment plants.…
Webinar: AI risk as a global environmental problem
“We are at a crucial moment in human history, when we are automating and offloading to machines the one key asset that has brought our tremendous success so far: our intelligence. At this point, to ask “What could possibly go wrong?”…
Request for Proposals: On Call Construction Materials Testing
Solicitation #: CV-PS-23-002
Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) “is requesting Proposals from licensed, experienced, and qualified firms for On Call Construction Materials Testing Services to support the construction of several planned and anticipated SMART infrastructure projects over the next three to five years.…
Webinar: Molecular Syndromic Panels for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: Antibiotic & Diagnostic Stewardship
“Molecular syndromic panels for the diagnosis of infectious diseases are being adopted by many clinical laboratories and are changing the way in which infections are being diagnosed. These panels offer many possible benefits such as quicker diagnoses and improved microbiology laboratory workflows, but they also present some new challenges.…
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 21, Issue 42
October 19, 2023 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 21, Issue 42 In This Issue Featured Books LIMS Selection Guide for ISO/IEC 17025 Laboratories Featured Content What are the most important features of a LIMS?The most important features of a LIMS are the features that are most important for your lab. These features may vary depending on your specific laboratory requirements and long-term goals. The LIMS features must be flexible enough to support your lab as it grows and changes, without the need for expensive development at every turn. [Read More] Why You Should Modernize Your Environmental LIMSDoes your environmental…World Drug Safety Congress Americas 2023
The World Drug Safety Congress Americas will bring together 1000+ top leaders and stakeholders in biopharma to discuss the key challenges they are facing in pharmacovigilance and device safety.
Explore strategies in data management & signal detection, showcase how AI & machine learning have improved PV processes, discuss the challenges creating a PV strategy for advanced therapies, and collaborate on medical device safety strategies.…
Request for Proposals: DNA Laboratory Testing Services
Solicitation #: 24-0246
North Carolina’s “New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office requests proposals from qualified vendorsto provide support services and training related to the implementation and on-going use of a RAPID DNA program.” See RFP document for further details.
Due date: 18 October 2023, 5:00 p.m.…
What are the most important features of a LIMS?
The most important features of a LIMS are the features that are most important for your lab. These features may vary depending on your specific laboratory requirements and long-term goals. The LIMS features must be flexible enough to support your lab as it grows and changes, without the need for expensive development at every turn. [Read More]
Why You Should Modernize Your Environmental LIMS
Does your environmental lab use a 30-year-old laboratory information management system (LIMS) that is slow and not user friendly, but still works? Have you ever considered the real cost of maintaining that system or the limitations it has? How do you figure that out and make the case to upgrade? Modernizing your LIMS could be a big investment of time and resources and can add a layer of complexity when managing legacy data, but modernizing may also significantly improve the efficiency and accuracy of your environmental lab. [Read More]
Trends in Pharmaceutical Data Science – A Brief Look at Internally Structured Data in Medical Device Development
Pharmaceutical and medical device companies benefit from using a structured approach to data items, connections between data items, and data containers. Working with data that is internally structured reduces the time needed to create submission reports, eliminates the manual verification of large data tables, and ensures the creation of submission deliverables with no technical errors. [Read More]
