What is the advantage of LIMS software?

A laboratory information management system, more commonly referred to as a LIMS, is a software system designed to help manage the workflow and daily operations in a laboratory.

What exactly is a LIMS? 

Although LIMS providers design their software a bit differently, at its core, the laboratory software system focuses on data management for specimen testing and results reporting. With a LIMS, a laboratory can decrease the time it takes for a sample to come through the door, be tested, resulted, and sent back to the submitter.

Streamlining specimen processing allows the lab to become more efficient, which should lead to increased volume capability and improved profitability. Another advantage of using a LIMS and introducing laboratory automation is to reduce human error in result and data entry.

What is the difference between a LIS and a LIMS?

Laboratory managers have long been asked to choose between whether their lab needs either a Laboratory Information System (LIS) or a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). There are now many areas of overlap and duplication, with shared functional capabilities between the two alternative routes. Read how the distinction between LIS and LIMS is disappearing.

A LIMS does much more than manage testing

A LIMS does not just stop at managing testing, it can also integrate with a laboratory’s instruments, track specimens, allow for web reporting and web data entry, act as a CRM solution, streamline electronic data exchange (HL7), handle barcodes, and offer quality assurance.

The software can be implemented in almost any kind of laboratory environment. Public health, toxicology, pharmacogenetics, pain management, forensic, bioterrorism, and clinical chemistry labs have all seen productivity and quality improvements when adopting LIMS laboratory software.

By improving quality performance with a LIMS software, a laboratory can grow, expand service lines, and exceed customers’ expectations.

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