Utilizing data in everyday lab work

FROM LABORATORY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TO WORK MANAGEMENT Part 1: Utilizing data in everyday lab work

Laboratory data, in addition to laboratory personnel, is laboratory’s most valuable asset. Until today, the concept of Laboratory Information Management, has been purely about just managing the data, focusing on data quality, traceability and safe data archiving.  

Now, we’re about to begin a new era in laboratory management, where data is not purely managed, but also effectively utilized to benefit laboratory’s personnel in improving their own way of working, and to support organization's operational planning.  

What if you could take better control of your daily laboratory work by utilizing the information in your LIMS by:

• Displaying visual worklists of your most urgent samples with one push-of-a-button
• Displaying visual worklists of samples waiting to be analyzed with a certain instrument
• Creating visual step-by-step workflows of your laboratory’s routine tasks, helping in carrying out routine tasks – also when the analyzer changes on-the-fly
• Displaying selected key elements of laboratory data especially informative for your work, when signing into LIMS

How do you utilize data in everyday lab work? Share your experience with us!

Writer

    Liisa Koivukoski, Sales manager