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What is the Ideal LIMS for Your Lab?
When it comes down to picking the products you’re going to use to help organize and streamline your lab’s operation, you can be faced with a bewildering array of options that range from well-known to little-known vendors, with investments that can be significant or “free”. Is one of those the ideal choice for your lab?
LabLynx launches new LIMS for startup cannabis testing labs
As part of its CannaQA solution suite, LabLynx launches its newest LIMS solution – CannaQA Standard Edition – made for startup and growing cannabis testing labs.
How does a LIMS work?
This article is going to dive deeper into LIMS and look at both how it works and also improves lab operations. We’ll do that by looking at one type of service testing lab as an example – a water quality testing lab – and seeing how the components of a LIMS can improve its operation. Because service testing labs have many common functional characteristics, it should be easy to translate this material to your lab’s needs.
Florida Legislation Allows Nurses to Conduct Clinical Lab Testing
Registered nurses’ roles in Florida’s hospital laboratories will change on July 1. New legislation will let qualified RNs perform low-to-moderate complexity testing without that extra burden.
Choosing a LIMS technology: Cloud-based or on-premises?
Cloud-based or on-premises self hosted? Which LIMS hosting option should your lab choose and why? Laboratory automation expert Joe Liscouski explores the two hosting options in depth to help you pick the one best for your lab.
Is Your Forensic LIMS Ready to Adapt to New Technology Trends?
In this article, we will review several emerging technologies that will enhance forensic laboratories in the coming years. However, forensic labs will need to adopt more efficient processes to make the most of these innovations. This is where a laboratory information management system (LIMS) optimized for forensics labs can help free time and resources to meet rising demand.
What is a LIMS & ELN?
What is a LIMS and ELN, and how do you know which to use? Laboratory automation expert Joe Liscouski reviews the two informatics applications and delves into discussion on which to use when.
Looking Into 2022, Upcoming Cannabis Markets
Nothing was normal in 2021. COVID-19 caused a complete redesign of how consumers and cannabis businesses interact. In 2022, there could be some big shifts ahead in the cannabis market.
Why Choose Between Flexibility and Security in a Clinical LIMS?
Clinical laboratories face new security challenges that could force them to choose between LIS/LIMS system flexibility and data security. But, what if there is a way for flexibility and security to coexist?
What to Consider When Building Your LIMS Requirements
What are LIMS system requirements, and how do you begin gathering them? Learn what you should consider when writing your requirements in this article by LIMS expert Shawn Douglas, author of LiMSwiki.org.
Mr. LIMS Speaks: Proprietary LIMS can thrive by embracing Commercial Open Source
You don’t have to pick between proprietary and open source software. They can coexist and even compliment one another. Find out more as Mr. LiMS shares his thoughts on the two technologies.
What to Know Before Beginning the LIMS Implementation Process
While the LIMS implementation is a big undertaking, there are ways to prepare ahead of time to keep the process manageable and streamlined. Check out what we recommend you know before beginning the implementation process.
Favorite LIMS Implementation Tips From LabLynx’s Staff
Finding the right LIMS solution is hard. Implementing it once you find it can be even harder if you do not have the right support around you. Our experienced application engineers share their top tips and best practices for implementation success.
Top 9 Ways a LIMS Can Help Your Clinical Laboratory
Between COVID-19 and an increase in the aging population, your clinical laboratory is busier than ever. You’re taking on a higher workload while facing a worsening staffing shortage crisis. You and your team need a helping hand. While it cannot add personnel to your workforce, here are the top 9 ways a LIMS can help your clinical laboratory.
LIS v. LIMS – What’s the difference between the systems?
LIS and LIMS systems are often featured together in healthcare informatics, leading some to question the difference. Are they the same? Let’s discuss.
Release: First web-based LIMS provider, LabLynx, announces major brand refresh
By LabLynx Staff | January 20, 2022 SMYRNA, Georgia – Leading cloud-based laboratory information management system (LIMS) and laboratory informatics solution provider LabLynx announced on January 19, 2022, it has completed a major brand refresh. The brand refresh...
Chemical, Petrochemical, Biofuels Processing Labs: LabLynx has your LIMS Solution
Whether you’re doing oil and gas, petrochemical, hydrocarbons, biodiesel and alternative fuels or related testing, The LabLynx LIMS Solution for Oil and Gas provides you with all of the functionality you need, in a web-based, state-of-the-art solution. Petrochemical,...
Employee Spotlight – Stephanie Pate
Dr. Stephanie Pate is a Senior Application Engineer at LabLynx. In her role, she assists clients in building a lab informatics suite that is tailored to their needs. She guides them through the application building process from project conceptualization through...
Mr. LIMS Speaks: Change Management…Possibly the Largest Cost of Implementing a LIMS
By Mr. LIMS | October 4, 2021 Newton's First Law of Motion states that a body at rest will remain at rest unless an outside force acts on it, and a body in motion at a constant velocity will remain in motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force....
Lessening the Staffing Shortage Sting
By Bridgette Hudak | October 4, 2021 Not a new problem for Laboratories This new wave of COVID era employee shortage sweeping the United States is nothing new for the laboratory profession. From forensic science to clinical diagnostic, every laboratory industry has...
Employee Spotlight – Robert “Bob” Walters Jr.
By LabLynx Staff | October 18, 2021 Robert “Bob” Walters is one of the leading Developers on our team at LabLynx. Through his 11-year tenure with the company, Bob has played a vital role in helping LabLynx continue its mission to redesign LIMS. He introduced the...
Mr. LIMS Speaks: Fully supported open source software for the laboratory integration and automation
By Mr. LIMS | October 17, 2021 How viable is open source software in the laboratory setting? One of the reasons that most businesses avoid using open source software to handle their line of business functions is that the software typically does not come with support....
Reduce the Calls to Your Laboratory’s Phone
By Bridgette Hudak | October 19, 2021 Ring, ring, ring…your laboratory’s technicians hear the loud shrill of the phone ceaselessly throughout their shift as clients of all types - doctors, nurses, detectives, product managers and more - call for test updates. While...
ISO Accreditation: Do I Need It?
What You Need and How to Get It Across industries, ISO accreditation is becoming a must-have for testing laboratories. This proof of competence reassures customers that your lab has the discipline and systems to produce consistently valid results. At the same time,...
ISO Accreditation: Do I Need It?
What You Need and How to Get It Across industries, ISO accreditation is becoming a must-have for testing laboratories. This proof of competence reassures customers that your lab has the discipline and systems to produce consistently valid results. At the same time,...
ELab for Cannabis: One LIMS for Multi-State Cannabis Testing
The fragmentation of cannabis regulations poses a particular challenge for multi-state cannabis testing labs. Although the industry and state regulators are trying to align requirements and standards, testing labs still lose many of the benefits of multi-state...
ISO 17025 and More – What’s Next for Cannabis Testing Labs?
The rapid pace of cannabis legalization led to a mad scramble as laboratories entered the cannabis testing market. But that rush established poor laboratory practices that have caused product recalls and undermined the cannabis industry’s reputation. Increasingly,...
CannaQA: One LIMS for Multi-State Cannabis Testing
The fragmentation of cannabis regulations poses a particular challenge for multi-state cannabis testing labs. Although the industry and state regulators are trying to align requirements and standards, testing labs still lose many of the benefits of multi-state...
Environmental Lab? LabLynx Has the Right LIMS for YOU!
For scheduling and managing sample collection, locations and sample points and their tests and limit sets, there is no better solution than the LabLynx LIMS Solution for Environmental and Water/Wastewater! Our very existence depends on the quality of the fundamental...
New Medical Canna Licenses in Georgia Means Opportunity for Labs
Georgians’ six-year wait for medical cannabis oils is almost over. State regulators are in the process of licensing cannabis oil producers and will start seeking applications for dispensary licenses later this year. Left unanswered is when —and how — testing...
ClinDx From LabLynx: The Complete Clinical LIS
Over the past year, many clinical diagnostic labs ran into the limitations of their inflexible or simply insufficient data management systems. The pandemic showed us that labs needed to support a rapidly evolving response with testing on a scale never seen before....
New Medical Canna Licenses in Georgia Means Opportunity for Labs
Georgians’ six-year wait for medical cannabis oils is almost over. State regulators are in the process of licensing cannabis oil producers and will start seeking applications for dispensary licenses later this year. Left unanswered is when —and how — testing...
Canna Testing Laboratories: Where the Business Is
The pandemic may have created havoc on businesses almost everywhere, but hemp and cannabis continue to thrive and even gain momentum. Besides meeting food and drug safety standards, licensed cannabis producers must pass THC potency thresholds before their crops can be...
The LabLynx Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Solution for Agriculture
The LabLynx Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Solution for Agriculture provides complete data management and reporting for all types of agriculture labs. Our client labs cover all areas, including feed, seed, fertilizer, pesticides, fuel and metrology,...
Laboratories: Time to Transition back to Standard Clinical Diagnostics?
Daily COVID-19 testing in the United States dropped precipitously as the latest surge ebbed and vaccines made their way into the population. But has the need for testing also dropped? Or could the demand for testing return? The answers to […]
Rare Cannabinoids: The Next Big Thing for Canna Labs
Rare cannabinoids may seem like the newest passengers on the cannabis hype train, but an element of science does lie at the heart of this new trend. The cannabis industry has noticed and has begun developing ways to make these cannabinoids a lot less rare — far in...
Has Test Pooling Lost Its Usefulness?
Pooling test samples is a common way to improve laboratory productivity and reduce the consumption of reagents and other supplies. Unfortunately, early hopes that test pooling could help labs during the COVID-19 pandemic quickly waned. Skyrocketing positivity […]
Antibody Testing: The Next Phase?
Antibody testing will become more important as vaccines start to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control. New serology tests with high specificity for SARS-CoV-2 not only confirm past infections or immunizations but also quantitatively measure […]
New York Labs: Are You Ready for Legalization?
Within a few months, financial and political priorities may finally align behind New York’s legalization of adult-use recreational and nutraceutical cannabis. New legislation will create significant opportunities for laboratories with experience in food and drug...
SARS-CoV-2 Variants: The New Challenge for Laboratories
Three new variants in the constantly-evolving SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have become a cause for concern among health officials worldwide. Although probably not more lethal than existing strains, higher transmissibility rates have stressed public […]
These States May Need Canna Testing Labs in 2021
Is your lab ready to meet the challenge? Last year’s elections saw voters in five states approve broader legalization of marijuana and cannabis products. That momentum will continue in 2021 as those states implement the new laws and several more states head down the...
How PCR and Antigen Testing Can Work Together for Lab COVID Testing
Widespread COVID-19 screening programs are the only way many businesses, schools and other organizations can keep running. Using PCR tests, however, often creates unmanageable turnaround times as clients must send samples to labs, then wait for them […]
Remote Tech for COVID-Safe Cannabis Lab Testing
The cannabis industry works hard to convince regulators, politicians and the public that their business is a responsible and legitimate part of the economy. But cowboy testing labs are producing sloppy, inconsistent results and even fake reports. These bad tests lead...
What Vaccines Mean for COVID-19 Testing Labs
COVID-19 vaccines are rolling out in the United States and around the world, but now is not the time for complacency. One, two or even dozens of vaccines won’t immediately turn the tide of this pandemic. Inoculating enough of the population to make a difference […]
How Wastewater Labs Can Help Defeat the Pandemic
As we look toward the long-term management of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), and indeed the anticipated emergence of other novel viruses, the role of wastewater testing is taking on new significance. In fact, it may turn out to play an even greater part than […]
How Labs Can Get Involved in COVID Screening Programs
Organizations, Businesses, Schools and Colleges Everywhere Need Testing Programs Data-driven decision making has put laboratories squarely in the center of the COVID-19 pandemic response. Unfortunately, even CLIA-certified clinical diagnostic labs can’t contribute […]
The COVID Testing Catch-22
The Key to Managing the Pandemic, and Why We‘ll Never Do It Perfectly Everybody agrees the only way to manage the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is to know how bad it is by conducting tests, and lots of them, right? Well of course. How else? But there’s a problem. And there...
Starting a COVID Testing Lab: Is Now a Good Time?
The answer to that question is easy, YES! Never mind the ongoing daily battles to limit the initial outbreak since March, it is becoming clear, as we transition into Winter of 2020 and the prospect of year two of the pandemic, that what was once acute has now become...
Setting Up and Managing COVID and Other Public Health Risk Testing in the Workplace
There is nothing people want more right now than a return to normal. By this time most of us have had enough of this surreal “new normal” where masked people tread carefully amongst each other, avoiding nearness, spraying down surfaces, using hand sanitizer, avoiding theaters, indoor restaurants, bars, and concerts, working from […]
The Rapid-Deploy, Complete Program for COVID PoCT: Making History Now
Two well-known universities in Louisiana have quickly and effectively ramped up complete testing management programs to protect their students and staff, as well as meet other testing challenges with spectacular results. Both universities have teamed up with LabLynx, Inc. to roll out the COVIDLiMS Solution Suite and were live […]
Point of Care Testing (PoCT) in the Coronavirus Pandemic – And Beyond
With the arrival of more lateral flow tests with FDA EUA (Food and Drug Administration Emergency Use Authorization) approval that can be performed outside of a lab becoming more available, any business, educational institution or other organization can look into implementing their own coronavirus testing program […]
COVID Testing for Schools and Universities
With COVID-19 on the rise in many universities and schools around the country, many of these institutions are searching for ways to keep their students, faculty, and staff safe this school year. With the spread of the virus increasing amongst young people, the...
Coronavirus Treatments That Work
And the Studies Prove It The current official stance is that there is no real treatment for COVID-19. If you get it, you are told to just go home and tough it out…until/unless you start finding it hard to breathe, or develop other severe symptoms requiring...
LabLynx Announces C-SIC Kit Release
Sample Information Collection Kit Improves COVID Testing Process ATLANTA, June 22, 2020 — LabLynx, Inc. today announced an important new component in its overall COVIDLiMS informatics solution for laboratories, designed to offer faster, more accurate coronavirus testing as well as ongoing risk management for businesses and organizations […]
How Labs and Businesses Can Work Together to Reopen Safely
As the nations of the world begin transitioning from flattening the curve to cautiously beginning to resume doing business, the focus is turning to how best to prevent a “second wave” - and in fact to operate over the long term in the face of potential similar...
PCR and Diagnostics: COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals Serious Issues
There has been recent discussion of the lack of accuracy of COVID-19 tests — both virus (rRT-PCR), which has been widely regarded as “the gold standard”, and antibody assays. “The largest study on coronaviruses testing to date estimated a rate of 41% false negatives...
COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory
Comprehensive guide to all aspects of testing and information management related to COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2. ATLANTA — Amidst the rapidly-changing and conflicting messages surrounding testing in the current pandemic, LabLynx, Inc., has published a free online book of...
COVID-19 Testing: The Latest
How are we doing in meeting the challenge? We’re now almost five months in since the notorious SARS-CoV-2 first reared its ugly head in December in Wuhan, with the first diagnosed case in the US following soon after in January. In the US, the pandemic caught...
A Day (or Three) In the Life of a COVID-19 Testing Event – Day Four: The Conclusion
DAY FOUR: The Conclusion (To read Day One, please go HERE. To read Day Two, please go HERE, to read Day Three please go HERE.) Originally intended as a 3-part blog (test results would be returned in 2–3 days they said), the documenting of my experience of getting...
A Day (or Three) In the Life of a COVID-19 Testing Event – Day Three
DAY THREE: Results? (To read Day One, please go HERE. To read Day Two, please go HERE.) Well, this was to be the results blog. However, day three turned into day four, then day five…the test was Sunday morning, it’s now Friday and still nothing. They told me 2–3 days...
A Day (or Three) In the Life of a COVID-19 Testing Event – Day Two
DAY TWO: The Lab (To read Day One, please go HERE) OK, so I did it, I got tested. What now? That’s exactly what I wondered, so I put those awesome journalistic skills to work (from home of course) and set out to find out where my sample went and what was being done...
A Day (or Three) In the Life of a COVID-19 Testing Event – Day One
DAY ONE I'm 64 (okay, I'll be 65 in a week or so), I had been feeling more fatigued than normal, and have had a dry, non-productive cough since probably January. Free community COVID-19 testing sites had been set up throughout the Atlanta area, with one close to me at...
COVID-19 Testing by Wastewater Labs
The way forward for tracking the second wave? No, you aren’t dreaming this and you didn’t misread. Turns out wastewater treatment labs may have an important part to play in keeping tabs on the 2019 novel coronavirus as we look to reopen America — in fact the entire...
COVIDLiMS: Who’s Your PAHPA (Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act)?
What role can labs play in helping to meet the suddenly very relevant federal law recently re-authorized as the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act (PAHPAIA), Public Law №116–22? As we all continue to navigate through the unfamiliar...
COVID-19 Testing for the Physician Office Laboratory (POL)
Published by LabLynx, Inc. For information and help in ramping up to provide COVID-19 testing services, contact LabLynx, Inc., info@lablynx.com, or call 866-522-5969. Do I really want to get involved in testing for SARS-CoV-2? Why? Like it or not, physician or not,...
LabLynx Joins the COVID-19 Fight by Introducing New COVIDLiMS
Unprecedented Ramp Up – Operational in Days Solves Web Submission/Reporting, COVID Handling and Workflows, CDC and FDA Reporting ATLANTA – LabLynx, Inc., long-time leader in enterprise-level cloud-hosted LIMS/LIS, today announced it has developed the world’s first...
LIMS and COVID-19 Testing & Reporting
Known variously as coronavirus, COVID-19, novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV and SARS-CoV-2, the current global pandemic has been reported in 191 Countries and Territories around the world as of March 23, 2020, with over 350,000 confirmed cases and more than 15,000 deaths....
Disaster Management for the Lab
Disaster management is, in a nutshell, about preparedness. Of course, the primary challenge in preparedness is anticipating just what it is for which you are preparing. In the case of disaster management, the possible scenarios vary a great deal - with some being...