News, insight, events and case studies

With increased focus on laboratory testing of wastewater samples for communicable diseases like monkeypox, COVID-19, cholera, and polio, LIMS data will be more valuable to epidemiologists for biosurveillance monitoring.

7 September 2022

Straight on the heels of a COVID resurgence this summer, US laboratories are bracing for yet another swing in their seemingly ever-changing staffing and resource needs to address new clinical and wastewater testing for human monkeypox virus (hMPXV). “The unexpectedly quick spread of monkeypox likely means our lab clients may have to invest in new testing,” […]

18 August 2022

Earlier this year, HORIZON Lab Systems and ApolloLIMS and were acquired by Clinisys Group, growing the organization’s community and public health diagnostics capability. Clinisys is one of the largest providers of laboratory information systems (LIS), order entry and result consultation, and public health solutions in disease surveillance and outbreak management across the United Kingdom, Europe, and United States. The […]

16 August 2022

Wayne Tainton is a solutions manager at CliniSys; but until the summer of 2022 he was a pathology IT manager in Bristol. His move underlines CliniSys’ commitment to working with its customers and to using their experience to make sure that its systems address the challenges they are facing.

2 August 2022

3 - 7 September 2022

CliniSys | MIPS presents the strengths of its DaVinci laboratory information system at the 34th European Congress of Pathology which will be held in Basel, Switzerland, from September 3rd to September 7th, 2022.

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

9 June 2022

Every year a different department of CliniSys | MIPS organizes the teambuilding day. This year it was the turn of the Management team. Two hundred out of the about three hundred employees signed up completely voluntarily: that's what we call a success!

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

11 - 14 June 2022

CliniSys is thrilled to be exhibiting at the European Human Genetics Conference which will be held in Vienna, Austria from Saturday June 11 to Tuesday June 14, 2022. This event is an exciting opportunity for us all to learn, collaborate and network in-person again.

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