In today’s fast-paced laboratory environments, efficiency, compliance, and data integrity are paramount. Achiever LIMS 5.7, the latest iteration of Interactive Software’s Laboratory Information Management System, is designed to meet these demands with advanced tools and features.
Achiever LIMS is designed to enhance laboratory operations across various sectors, including clinical research, biobanking, agriculture, and environmental studies. Whether you’re managing clinical trials, forensic data, or sample workflows in diagnostic labs, this release promises to streamline operations, improve user experience, and ensure adherence to best practices and regulatory standards.
Laboratory Execution System (LES) Enhancements
The updated LES offers Achiever LIMS customers with an improved interface, simplifying the design and implementation of laboratory processes. Users can select predefined action and event types within default settings, facilitating the linking and unlinking of actions and events.
New features such as loops, variables, and prompts reduce the need for custom code, enhance configuration simplicity, and improve version control with commit and rollback capabilities. These enhancements support various laboratory workflows, including clinical trial setup, donor enrolment, kit creation and quality control, sample analysis, and sample dispatch.
Email Management
Achiever LIMS 5.7 integrated email management system now allows users to oversee the sending and monitoring of emails directly within the platform. This integration provides visibility and control over sent and queued emails which in turn helps to reduce troubleshooting time.
Extended Settings and Options
The system administration user interface now includes extended settings and options, allowing for the management of standard features such as kits. Administrators can activate kits, kit quality control, kit consumables, and enable auto-calculation of kit expiry dates. This functionality simplifies the activation and deactivation of options, enforces consistency, and reduces configuration efforts.
Module and Licence Manager
Achiever LIMS 5.7 provides a module and licence manager to control access to licensed modules, including Clinical Trials, Audit and Quality Control, Data Import, Disease Management, and UKCRC Integration. This feature simplifies the management of module access, ensures consistency, enables viewing of sign-in activity and active users, and reduces configuration time.
Microsoft 365 Calendar Integration
The system integrates with Microsoft 365 Calendar, automatically sending selected activities for designated users from Achiever LIMS to their calendars and managing updates to activity details. This integration supports user adoption, reduces administrative tasks, and eliminates duplication of work.
Clinical Trials Enhancements
Achiever LIMS 5.7 includes a dedicated Clinical Trials homepage for quick access to key information and workflows. It facilitates the management of trial setup, enrolment, participation, and close-down using processes defined in the LES. The system also improves the scheduling and management of sample collections and participant withdrawals, simplifying clinical trial setup, enhancing sample collection management, and ensuring adherence to standard operating procedures.
Kit Management
The kit management feature allows users to define kits to identify samples to be collected and track consumables used, with capabilities to print kit labels and manage expiry dates. It also manages the quality control of kits, including the destruction process, and oversees kit dispatch to sites as well as kit assignment. This functionality improves consistency across sample collections, enhances quality, streamlines the sample collection process, and improves control of consumables.
Instrument and Storage Schedulers
Achiever LIMS 5.7 offers a calendar view of planned and completed service and maintenance activities for instruments and storage locations, with options to view activities by day, week, or month. This feature reduces configuration time, expedites deployment, increases compliance, and improves quality.
Analysis Enhancements
The system enables linking of assets and anticipated results to analyses for use in processes. Results can be imported against analyses using the existing import tool and users notified if any unexpected results are included in the results file. These enhancements improve instrument integration and support for sample preparation, analysis, and experiment workflows.
Manifest Import and Quick Links
Enhancements to manifest import provide improved error handling and support for the conversion of pre-registered samples. New homepages for different user types simplifies and encourages system usage, improving access to key areas and features and enhancing overall system support.
Conclusion
Achiever LIMS 5.7 sets a new benchmark for laboratory information management by integrating advanced features, user-friendly interfaces, and robust process controls. Its enhancements simplify complex workflows, reduce administrative burdens, and ensure consistency and compliance across laboratory operations. Whether you are managing clinical trials, working with agricultural specimens, or ensuring quality in sample handling, Achiever LIMS 5.7 is a comprehensive solution tailored to the evolving needs of modern laboratories. By investing in this cutting-edge system, laboratories can unlock greater efficiency, reduce errors, and drive better outcomes.
