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Unlocking Efficiency: The Features and Benefits of Achiever LIMS 5.7

Sharon Williams — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:14:42 +0000

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 […]

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6 Steps to Managing COVID-19 Samples and Beyond Using Achiever Medical LIMS

Sharon Williams — Thu, 13 May 2021 12:14:30 +0000

Sample testing capacity within the UK has increased significantly, and unbelievably rapidly, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Time and accuracy are of the essence when it comes to tracking and tracing COVID-19 samples, donors, and potential contacts. With growing volumes of samples and an ever-changing landscape as countries start considering strategies on living with COVID-19 and its variants, the need for managing and processing COVID-19 samples will remain for some time. Is it time to consider a longer-term solution like a LIMS for managing your COVID-19 samples and testing process? Or even for tracking any surplus samples with appropriate consent that you or others could use to provide insight for long COVID, treatments for possible future variants or even other diseases? Achiever Medical is a web-based, process-driven laboratory information management (LIMS) currently used by UK trusts and academic research institutions to support COVID-19 sample testing as well as manage the ongoing tracking and management of samples and donors. 1. Receiving COVID-19 samples Whether you receive sample and donor data via a CSV file, spreadsheet or you physically receive samples in your lab, Achiever Medical LIMS helps you record your sample, donor, and consent information using your standard terminology […]

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Benefits of Configurable LIMS and Biobanking Software

Gary Rooksby — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:00:07 +0000

When it comes to configurable Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), Biobank Information Management System (BIMS) and Sample Tracking Software – “It Ain’t What You Do, It’s The Way That You Do It”… And as the old song continues, “…that’s what gets results”. Well, with Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and Biobanking software we know that everything is about results. If you’re in the market for a new system, then you need to be confident that any promised benefits will actually materialise. A configurable Biobanking system or LIMS can help you get the most from your investment by increasing the software’s longevity. As a result, the software continues to meet your requirements in the future. And if you can do this without investing in months of training or specialist developers this will keep costs down. But let’s face facts. Absolutely every LIMS or BIMS supplier says their system is “ultimately flexible” and “configurable to your exact needs”. So, how do you start to differentiate between all those wonderful claims? And what exactly does ‘configurable LIMS’ mean? Firstly, you need to understand the different configuration tools suppliers use in their systems. This allows you to validate those claims and understand which best […]

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6-steps to update your Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) User Requirements Specification

Gary Rooksby — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:30:49 +0000

A bonus article as an addition to our ‘Choosing a LIMS’ series to help keep your chosen system up-to-date. In a recent survey an amazing thirty NHS Trusts stated that they either do not have a LIMS User Requirements Specification (URS) or that it hasn’t been reviewed since its last upgrade. You need your User Requirements Specification (URS) to validate your Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and ensure that it’s fit for purpose. If you don’t know what you need your LIMS to do, how can you check whether it’s succeeding? It’s also an area that inspectors from regulatory bodies such as the MHRA and Human Tissue Authority (HTA) are increasingly focusing on. So, you should try to get your documentation in order before your hand is forced by an upcoming inspection. You’d then be under so much more pressure! Finally, your department could make some big efficiency gains as well as proving compliance and reducing risk to patients. So, let’s make a start. 1. Find and review the LIMS User Requirements Specification (URS) documentation you already have You might already have a URS for your LIMS, albeit out of date. If you do, this is the perfect starting point. […]

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It’s all in the cloud! The advantages of cloud-based LIMS and BIMS

Gary Rooksby — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:00:48 +0000

Have you noticed how many Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and Biobank Information Management Systems (BIMS) are migrating to the cloud? Are cloud-based LIMS or BIMS just a fad or are there some advantages and tangible benefits to it? Cloud-based LIMS and BIMS usually offer Software as a Service (SaaS). This means that you a soon as you sign up, you have a URL to access your software of choice. You don’t install anything on your servers or machines. Instead, the software, and your data, is held and managed on externally hosted and managed systems. Whether you’re wondering about your current system’s ongoing suitability or are already in the market for a new one you should be aware of both the advantages and disadvantages of offloading your data into the cloud. Many modern systems run completely within web browsers This, in general, is a very good thing – simplifying or removing the need to install complex software on local computers before you can access your data. But, and it is a big “but”, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you want to make the leap and put all your data on the internet in a cloud-based LIMS or BIMS. So why […]

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