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  • Insight

    New look, same values, renewed commitment to innovation

    CliniSys Group has created a single brand for the UK and Europe, with a new website, color palette and logo. What does it all mean for us, our customers and business partners? Michael Simpson, Group Chief Executive Officer explains. Hello and welcome to the new CliniSys | MIPS website! A single name brand for CliniSys […]

    18 March 2021

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    Top tips for developing a pathology network

    When beginning the process towards procuring a new pathology system, there are so many questions and competing priorities. You have to do a service reconfiguration; you have to select and embed a LIMS system and undertake a transparent, fair – and often accelerated – procurement process. So what comes first?

    11 February 2021

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    ‘Joining the dots’ at CliniSys

    In its simplest form at CliniSys, it is about ‘joining the dots’ and bringing the organisation together as one powerful brand and voice. Marketing planning is already underway and starting in the first quarter of 2021 there will be a series of initiatives to support the CliniSys Group’s marketing and corporate goals.

    15 January 2021

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    What is the advantage of LIMS software?

    A laboratory information management system, more commonly referred to as a LIMS, is a software system designed to help manage the workflow and daily operations in a laboratory. What exactly is a LIMS?  Although LIMS providers design their software a bit differently, at its core, the laboratory software system focuses on data management for specimen […]

    10 December 2020

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    Why genomics labs need a modern laboratory information system

    Steve Abbs is working as a genomics consultant with CliniSys. In the first of a series of blogs on the developing field of genomic testing and precision medicine, he argues how the genomics laboratory hubs being set up in England can benefit from deploying a modern LIMS to enable them to run more efficiently, deliver results effectively to clinicians, and lay the IT foundations for precision medicine.

    24 November 2020

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    Customer education: Helping our customers get the most out of their solution

    “Customers don’t know what they don’t know” – day to day usage is one thing but learning about additional or newly developed functionality to speed up workflow and provide other benefits is essential.

    2 October 2020

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    Supporting critical laboratory systems: 5 tips for effective ICT triage

    Effectively triaging ICT issues as soon as they arise is crucial for fixing them says Felice Di Rienzo, Services Director at CliniSys. The triage process involves critically analysing a pathology system to identify the component in the puzzle that’s failing. The quicker this can happen, the faster it can be resolved.

    29 July 2020

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    Experience More from Your LIMS Vendor

    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

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    What genomic laboratory hubs can learn from pathology networks; why is the first lesson ‘implement a single LIMS?’

    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

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    Standardisation in clinical genomic testing

    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

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    What’s Important in Selecting a CellPath LIMS

    If you are about to embark on going out to tender to find a CellPath LIMS supplier, what are the criteria you should consider in choosing a vendor? Sam Grobler, CliniSys product manager, offers some key recommendations.

    9 May 2020