News, insight, events and case studies

Barts Health NHS Trust had a mixed estate of LIMS across its sites. The Trust identified that management of multiple systems and hardware platforms was far from optimal, and the migration to a single platform across all sites would improve efficiency and workflow, and would enable all sites to benefit from enhanced WinPath Enterprise functionality.

GLIMS provides a pooled, evolutive solution that supports all the specialities of AP-HP’s 121 laboratories.

We consider how the tumultuous events of 2020 will impact on 2021, and how they will affect the company, the NHS, and the world of pathology for years to come.

14 December 2020

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 […]

10 December 2020

In an effort to control the COVID-19 pandemic and to significantly scale up testing capacity, governments throughout the world have set up screening programmes. In Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany, the software systems from MIPS are playing an important role in these programmes by facilitating the communication between the laboratories, the governmental software platforms, and the various agencies that centralise and report on the data.

5 November 2020

In an effort to control the COVID-19 pandemic and to significantly scale up testing capacity, governments throughout the world have set up screening programmes. In Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany, the software systems from MIPS are playing an important role in these programmes by facilitating the communication between the laboratories, the governmental software platforms, and the various agencies that centralise and report on the data.

22 October 2020

The new coronavirus which causes the COVID-19 illness still has the world under its spell. Medical laboratories worldwide geared up their PCR testing capacity the last months to detect the virus. This testing involves many consumables to perform a PCR-test and comes with logistic challenges for all laboratories worldwide to maximize the throughput in the […]

8 October 2020

If you are about to embark on finding an Anatomic Pathology (AP) LIS supplier, which criteria should you consider when choosing a vendor? Romaric Croes, pathologist and founder of LIS DaVinci and clinical director at MIPS, offers some recommendations.

2 October 2020

Brentwood-based laboratory information management company ApolloLIMS is helping dozens of labs across the country reconfigure their workflows to accommodate COVID-19 testing. ApolloLIMS sells information management software for lab testing facilities. The software helps labs keep track of samples, organize test results and share results with patients. When the pandemic spread to the United States, many […]

16 September 2020

The Brentwood-based laboratory information management company ApolloLIMS is helping dozens of labs across the U.S. reconfigure their workflows to accommodate COVID-19 testing. ApolloLIMS sells information management software for lab testing facilities. The software helps labs keep track of samples, organize test results and share results with patients.  When the pandemic spread to the U.S., many […]

14 September 2020

We reflect on some of the profound changes that the novel coronavirus has brought to CliniSys, to healthcare, and to pathology, and how they are likely to play out in a post-Covid future.

21 July 2020

MIPS supports GGD laboratories in the fight against the Coronavirus In order to enable a broad national covid-19 screening program, the Dutch government took the decision to launch a central IT platform, the ‘CoronIT platform’. The rapid connection of all GGD’s testing laboratories to this platform was an essential part of the project. In the […]

30 June 2020