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Aishwarya Raju Details how she finds her role as Associate Software Engineer, Product Development at Clinisys.

16 November 2022

Kim Futrell, MT(ASCP), MSHI Lab Administration, Public Health In times of serious laboratory staff shortages and dwindling medical laboratory scientist (MLS) graduates, having an effective laboratory workflow is crucial to maintain a productive lab. Today’s top public health labs (PHLs) are focused on how to develop and maintain efficient workflows so they can fulfill their […]

11 November 2022

Clinisys’ acquisitions of ApolloLIMS, HORIZON Lab Systems, and Sunquest Information Systems are revolutionizing the LIMS industry. Read about the united offering of solutions that Clinisys now provides.

8 November 2022

Earlier this year, HORIZON Lab Systems and ApolloLIMS were acquired by the Clinisys Group to grow the organization’s community and public health diagnostics capability. HORIZON specialized in laboratory information management systems across several verticals including clinical, toxicology and environmental. Based on these verticals, it was our overall expertise in public health that acted as the […]

21 September 2022

Kim Futrell, MT(ASCP), MSHI Public Health Public Health Laboratories (PHL) are an integral part of keeping our population healthy and safe. They have contributed to improvements in population health for decades. See Figure 1. In an effort to continue improving, the public health system is embracing an updated model called Public Health 3.0 (PH3.0) that […]

21 September 2022

With increased focus on laboratory testing of wastewater samples for communicable diseases like monkeypox, COVID-19, cholera, and polio, LIMS data will be more valuable to epidemiologists for biosurveillance monitoring.

7 September 2022

We consider some of the big developments in pathology and how technology will help laboratories to confront current challenges while preparing for the future of personalised medicine.

16 August 2022

Wayne Tainton is a solutions manager at CliniSys; but until the summer of 2022 he was a pathology IT manager in Bristol. His move underlines CliniSys’ commitment to working with its customers and to using their experience to make sure that its systems address the challenges they are facing.

2 August 2022

The labor shortages still sweeping the US and other parts of the world extend to the laboratory space as well. The laboratory industry was already short on qualified people to fill the key roles. On top of that, pre-existing worker shortage, the laboratory testing industry has demanded a lot of its personnel over the last […]

24 June 2022

Kim Futrell, MT(ASCP), MSHI Lab Stewardship, LIS Using your laboratory information system (LIS) for autoverification is one of the most effective ways your lab can reduce hands-on tech time through process automation. Depending on the lab menu and patient population, 40% to 95% of results could qualify for autoverification.1,2 What is autoverification? Autoverification is a […]

9 May 2022

One of the arguments that is often put forward to support the formation of a pathology network is that laboratories will be able to transfer work from one site to another if there is a crisis. The blood transfusion service for a hospital in the West Midlands found that was true when a routine IT upgrade took down a critical server array. Mike Herbert, Blood Transfusion lead at Black Country Pathology Services, explains.

31 March 2022

As the rapid pace of development in human genetics and molecular diagnostics continues unabated, it's worth asking whether traditional laboratory information systems (LIS) are still capable of meeting current requirements in these fields

20 January 2022