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COVID cases have re-surged this summer in many regions of the US. New omicron variants are largely the cause of new waves of infection, fueled by increased summer travel and relaxed mask requirements. “Customers are telling us they’ve been ramping back up since May 2022 to handle more COVID testing,” says Robert Benz, marketing manager for HORIZON, […]

27 July 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

CliniSys Group has acquired ApolloLIMS, a leading provider of laboratory information management systems based in Nashville, Tennessee, and with specialist expertise in clinical, public health, toxicology and molecular diagnostics.

12 April 2022

Clinical diagnostic laboratories have specific requirements to maintain chain of custody of all samples and data generated across the testing workflow, and this requirement is especially challenging for NGS-based tests, where many daughter samples are generated across the multi-day workflow. Clinical diagnostic labs also must retain patient data for at least 2 years after the test […]

19 March 2022

NGS Workflow Overview The NGS workflow is a multi-step process that creates some challenges for the diagnostic testing laboratory. The chemical processes generate many daughter samples that must be traced back to the original parent specimen. Laboratories need effective naming conventions and a robust LIMS that can maintain chain of custody across the workflow and […]

9 February 2022

Acquisition extends CliniSys capabilities into new and complementary market sectors serving environmental, water quality testing, public health, toxicology, and agriculture.

3 February 2022

CliniSys acquires HORIZON Lab Systems and combines with Sunquest Information Systems to create one of the world’s largest organizations dedicated to diagnostics and laboratory informatics. Combined group to enable better public health outcomes through innovation in diagnostics and laboratory informatics technology

18 January 2022

Acquisition extends CliniSys capabilities into new and complementary market sectors serving environmental, water quality testing, public health, toxicology, and agriculture.

5 January 2022

Over 23 million samples have already been evaluated in the Vienna COVID-19 laboratory of Lifebrain Covid Labor GmbH in the past 12 months, and the numbers are increasing by several hundred thousand every day. The extensive test program in Austria is supported by state-of-the-art laboratory software from CliniSys | MIPS.

15 December 2021

As we reflect on 2021, the ApolloLIMS team has noticed some interesting developments in the diagnostics space. The combination of the COVID-19 pandemic along with some other general developments within the biotech sector overall have combined to impact the diagnostic space for the better. The last year has been an exciting time to partner with […]

14 December 2021

CliniSys has set up an environmental, social and governance (ESG) group, and one of its first ideas was to plant a tree for every new employee. We thought it was such a lovely idea, we decided to plant a whole lot more…

18 November 2021

CliniSys won 2 Lab News Lab Awards 2021 for “Most impactful collaboration with the public sector” and "Most impactful laboratory informatics solution" with the SI-DEP project in France.

17 November 2021