News, insight, events and case studies

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

21 July - 27 August 2020

We are delighted to announce the launch of the inaugural CliniSys | MIPS Digital Summer Conference 2020 and will be running a programme of webinars this summer over the months of July and August for all our customers. This event programme will comprise of a series of bite sized webinars that will be up to […]

Selecting your laboratory information management system (LIMS) is one of the most crucial decisions you will make for your lab and your company. 

20 May 2020

CliniSys has delivered a laboratory link for NHS Nightingale Hospital Bristol (Nightingale Bristol), so clinicians can request tests for patients and receive the results electronically.

12 May 2020

What can the mobilising genomics laboratory hubs learn from the more advanced pathology networks? CliniSys marketing manager Matthew Fouracre put the question to programme manager Tony Oliver and genomics consultant Steve Abbs, who agreed the first lesson would be: implement a single laboratory information system to drive standardisation.

10 May 2020

One of the major drivers for forming genomic laboratory hubs is to ensure quality at scale and equitable testing, by encouraging greater standardisation. However, CliniSys genomics consultant Steve Abbs argues that hubs in themselves will struggle to achieve this, and other drivers and facilitators are needed – not least a single LIMS.

10 May 2020