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Understanding the difference, if applicable, and evaluating the right vendors is foremost in selecting the right platforms. Maybe you need a blend? Which systems bring the right mix, or may be you need two implementations, an LIS and a LIMS? <br><br> Our experts have the experience and understanding of the Laboratory landscape to help you navigate the myriad of systems out there and select the right environment for your needs. Many of our experts have gone through the process themselves multiple times. Let us de-mystify the art of technology selection and put you on the right road for success. <div class="col-lg-4"></div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="d-flex" style="background: #fff" > <div class="container" data-aos="fade-up"> <div class="row align-items-center"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <img src="/assets/img/software-arhitecture-ilustration.png" alt="Making That Crucial LIMS Selection Decision" class="img-fluid"/> </div> <div class="col-xl-8 content"> <h2>Making That Crucial LIMS Selection Decision</h2> <br><br> <h1>Understanding the Distinction between LIMS vs. LIS in Laboratory Management</h1><br><br> In the world of laboratory management, efficient data handling and streamlined processes are crucial for accurate and timely results. To achieve this, laboratories rely on specialized software systems known as LIMS and LIS. Although these acronyms may seem similar, they represent distinct solutions tailored for different laboratory environments. Understanding their unique functionalities and applications is crucial to selecting the right system for your situation. <br><br> <h1>Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)</h1> <u>Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)</u> are designed primarily for research, testing, and scientific laboratories. LIMS serves as a comprehensive solution for managing and tracking laboratory data, samples, and processes. Its key focus areas include sample management, data analysis, workflow automation, and integration with various laboratory instruments and systems. <br><br> <u>Sample Tracking and Management</u> enables laboratories to efficiently track and manage samples throughout their lifecycle, from collection to storage and analysis. Each sample is assigned a unique identifier, allowing researchers to monitor its progress and associated data. <br><br> <u>Workflow Automation</u> automates laboratory workflows, reducing manual errors and improving efficiency. It streamlines processes such as sample preparation, instrument calibration, and result analysis, ensuring smooth operations within the laboratory environment. <br><br> <u>Integration with Laboratory Instruments</u> seamlessly integrates with laboratory instruments and systems, enabling direct data transfer and reducing transcription errors. This integration enhances data accuracy and facilitates real-time monitoring of experiments and analyses. <br><br> <u>Data Analysis and Reporting</u> provides robust data analysis tools, allowing scientists to derive meaningful insights from the collected data. It supports the generation of comprehensive reports, aiding researchers in their decision-making processes and facilitating collaboration within the scientific community. <br><br> <u>Regulatory considerations</u> also play a big part in the industries where LIMS systems are employed. However, they are different regulations than that which a LIS would cover. Understanding the differences between, for example, CAP, HIPPA and 21 CFR Part 11 and how each system meets those regulations is a critical component when selecting the right system for your business. <br><br> <h1>Laboratory Information Systems (LIS)</h1> <u>Laboratory Information Systems (LIS)</u> are specifically designed for clinical laboratories and healthcare facilities. LIS plays a vital role in managing patient-related laboratory information and test results, facilitating effective diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients. <Br><br> <u>Patient Demographics and Test Order Entry</u> that integrates with hospital information systems (HIS) and electronic medical records (EMR) to retrieve and store patient demographics is a key requirement. It enables physicians to order laboratory tests electronically, ensuring accurate test requisition and seamless communication between the laboratory and other healthcare departments. <br><br> <u>Sample Tracking and Result Reporting</u> tracks samples throughout the testing process, ensuring proper identification and preventing mix-ups. It manages test results and generates comprehensive reports that are linked to the corresponding patient records, providing healthcare professionals with a comprehensive view of the patient's medical history. <br><br> <u>Quality Control and Instrument Interfacing</u> incorporates quality control measures to maintain the accuracy and reliability of laboratory test results. It monitors instrument performance, detects deviations, and alerts laboratory staff of potential issues. LIS also interfaces with laboratory instruments, facilitating automated data transfer and reducing manual transcription errors. <br><br> <u>Regulatory Compliance</u> plays a crucial role in ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and guidelines governing clinical laboratories. 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Furthermore, the out-of-the-box code is often too generic, designed for a one-size fits all philosophy, for most of today’s applications. Databases may not be structured optimally or functionality that would make the system perform better just may not exist. Often in these legacy LIS systems, there’s more than just sunk cost, there are also custom features, development and institutional knowledge that make replacing the existing system too costly and/or simply take too much time to replicate.\nGet more from a more optimized system The good news is you can often get more performance out of your existing system by giving your legacy lab informatics system a performance tune up and an experienced professional services team with laboratory domain experience can help you do it. For example, if you find performance has decreased as your sample volume has grown, we may be able to make changes to the system that eliminate accessing the database unnecessarily. In addition, we can redesign your table triggers to improve SQL statements that take a long time to execute. We can make additional modifications that allow you to access information faster and more efficiently to make the system scale better with increasing volumes. A system review of a legacy informatics system may identify bottlenecks, and we can usually provide recommendations to improve processing time and eliminate time out errors. Deeper improvements can be made by analyzing key business and operational needs. We can often optimize the design of workflows for the current work process. Sometimes a system can be better tailored to your needs by making some enhancements to system configurations. When we update legacy lab information systems that were built over decades, we can identify a good deal of unnecessary code that adversely impacts performance.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t be limited by outdated systems Customers frustrated by report templates that haven’t been updated in years? Rebuilding those templates using Crystal Reports or other tools doesn’t have to be complicated, and you don’t have to pay exorbitant vendor fees to have it done. Often these templates can be modified by our professional services team at a fraction of the price that a legacy lab informatics vendor would charge. Furthermore, we can upgrade to a newer version of your LIS, including data migration, at a considerably lower price than a legacy vendor.\nAccess decades of lab informatics domain expertise You can access decades of lab informatics domain expertise, on a short term project basis to start getting more from your system today, whether you need:\nPerformance tuning to get your system working optimally System configuration and solution architecture 21CFR Part 11 compliance Building Crystal Reports Custom coding and development Instrument integration Server configuration System Validation End-User Training Administrator Training System Upgrade Data Migration Please contact us if you have any questions.\n", "url": "https:\/\/www.bgasoft.com\/blog\/sometime-your-existing-lis-lims-just-needs-a-tune-up\/" }, "https:\/\/www.bgasoft.com\/blog\/client-portal\/": { "title": "Secure Client Portal for Seamless Communication", "tags": [], "content": "Secure Client Portal for Seamless Communication We built our web portal to be both secure and easy to use so your physicians would find value in working with it.\nOften portals combine a series of disjointed requirements or have been built as an afterthought, which means they have quirks that clients must work with o work around. Many portals are built using old technology and simply are not able to take advantage of modern web functionality and user experience.\nWe made our portal to be a seamless extension of LIMSABC, a place where each of your clients can come and easily enter new requisitions and access all of their information. Our portal can also be used as a stand alone system that interfaces to existing LIS systems through HL7 integration.new requisitions and access all of their information. Our portal can also be used as a stand alone system that interfaces to existing LIS systems through HL7 integration.\nA Portal Built for Ease of Use We built our portal using a modern LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python) stack and use industry-leading cloud partners such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft to host our solution so you always have world-class uptime, accessibility and scalability. Our underlying technology enables us to offer to offer a full web experience to your clients.\nWe designed everything to be easy and intuitive to reduce the barrier to your client’s adoption. We streamlined the interface to display only the items that your clients need, arranged in a way that logically follows their information requirements and workflow. For example, our home screen lists only new reports, and displays previously viewed or downloaded reports in a different view, so that when clients log in they have their most current information at their fingertips. They can batch download all or selected reports based on client, physician, site, and other values.\nWe streamlined the requisition process and created patient, client and physician databases so that LIMSABC electronically populates each requisition with as much information as possible. For example, patient insurance information is added from existing patient data, and medical tests are included from the physician’s profile or the practices’ profile. Since every item is not digital, we included interfacing with image scanners. After you scan supporting information that appears on hard copy, the system saves the scanned image to file and automatically attaches it or otherwise uses it in the requisition. When you save the requisition, the barcode for the sample automatically prints for easy tracking.\nA Portal Built for your Clients To ensure that all the information your clients need is at their fingertips, we built the following features and more into our Client Web Portal:\nElectronic requisitioning Full patient database with patient demographics and insurance information Barcode generation and printing Batch downloading of all new or selected reports Panel, test, and ICD code selection Scanning, imaging, and uploading of supporting information Ability to view each requisition’s status Easy access to new reports and batch downloads Patient analyte trend data Positive summary reports over selected time ranges Bi-directional HL7 interfacing to your existing LIS, EMR’s, billing and other systems Fully web enabled access from any device, anywhere - no local software required Learn more LIMSABC Client Web Portal\n", "url": "https:\/\/www.bgasoft.com\/blog\/client-portal\/" }, "https:\/\/www.bgasoft.com\/blog\/cloud-lab-framework\/": { "title": "Why We Went Cloud with our Laboratory Information Framework", "tags": [], "content": "Why We Went Cloud with our Laboratory Information Framework When we began building LIMSABC, we wanted to create a solution that wasn’t just current today but would be a platform for future growth.\nA platform that could evolve as laboratory IT needs and demands changed. When we looked at the pace of change over the last 10 years, we realized the trajectory going forward would require laboratory information systems to refresh their underlying technology. Tomorrow’s laboratories require the ability to work with far more data than they have in the past and need the ability to integrate and work with data from an ever increasing number of data sources; electronic medical records, clearinghouses, billing systems, genetic and genomic interpretation software, automation tools and instrumentation. With LIMSABC we built a modern, flexible cloud solution on a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python) stack.\nReasons we went cloud with our LIS: Infrastructure on demand. Building, maintaining and securing your own data center is a costly undertaking; we felt that most clients would be better served if we used truly world class web service providers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft. In addition, these large vendors have HIPAA business associate agreements and processes to ensure your data is handled appropriately. Fully redundant data systems. Your data is backed up in the cloud across redundant servers so it is extremely unlikely that you would lose any data. The web service providers provide a number of services that would easily allow you to replicate any internal processes. World class uptime and accessibility to your information. When was the last time your gmail wasn’t available? Or you couldn’t shop on Amazon? Extreme scalability of users, samples and peak system load. The upper limit of bandwidth available from in-house servers is a fraction of the bandwidth available from cloud providers. The cloud gives you the processing power you need when you need it; you are freed from having to build your own data center for peak demand. Access from any device, anywhere. With a full, cloud based system all you need is a web browser to access your data. Reduction of your in-house IT burden through a fully hosted and supported system. LIMSABC as Software as a Service means no need to host software locally for your LIS system. All you need is a modern web browser such as Chrome or Safari. ", "url": "https:\/\/www.bgasoft.com\/blog\/cloud-lab-framework\/" }, } </script> <script src="/assets/js/lunr.js"></script> <script src="/assets/js/search.js"></script> <script src="/assets/bt/aos/aos.js"></script> <script src="/assets/bt/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script> <script src="/assets/bt/glightbox/js/glightbox.min.js"></script> <script src="/assets/bt/isotope-layout/isotope.pkgd.min.js"></script> <script src="/assets/bt/swiper/swiper-bundle.min.js"></script> <script src="/assets/js/main.js"></script> </body> </html>