Category Archives: Lab Data Management
Press Release: PLA® Conference 2024 EUROPE
Embrace your Digital Ecosystem for seamless digital processes in your Lab.
Discussions at the 11th edition of the Paperless Lab Academy® Conference Europe
The PLA® Conference is pleased to announce its 11th European edition, which will take place on 12 and 13 March 2024 in the city of Milan, Italy, at the Hotel Meliá Milano.
The conference is the place to be for anyone thinking of implementing, consolidating, integrating, simplifying digital processes in their labs, and improving data-driven decisions. Data, Processes, People, Technology, and Compliance Read More...
6 Factors for a successful Implementation of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
Have you implemented a Laboratory Information Management Solution without really benefiting from all its capabilities?
Unfortunately, it is frequent to discover that the Laboratory Information Management Solution implemented in a site is not providing all the resources and insights that the laboratory and its stakeholders would benefit from.
Too many factors influence the success of a system implementation, irrespective of the LIMS providers, the type of lab or the size. Too often the project gets delayed. Too often phase 2 never Read More...
How to be sure that your Data Integrity project has fully covered your eData LifeCycle?
The integrity of your Data along their lifecycle
This is not another data integrity article, yet this is about demonstrating to auditors that you do have it all right and under control. So we’d like to highlight the importance of assessing the complete life cycle of your data and managing it for complete compliance to data integrity requirements.
We’ve all attended the thousand trainings, webinars and presentation about Data Integrity recommendations and guidelines. We know by heart the ALCOA definition and Read More...
Data Integrity, Company Integrity: a Management Commitment
Thousands of documents and articles have been written about Data Integrity. You probably have already attended several presentations and webinars introducing the concept, repeating incessantly the list of data integrity guidelines published by the regulatory bodies and showing you frightening summaries of warning letters.
Data integrity is not a new trend
You know that data integrity is not a new concept. You know of multiple examples not even related to the pharma industries that had a strong impact in the society. Read More...
Review by Exception: the ultimate Laboratory 4.0 objective
In a previous article, we described the evolution of the laboratories along the four industrial revolutions, in which the last one gets the machines, devices, sensors, and people connecting, communicating and driving effective production. The principles of the fourth revolution are interconnection, transparency of the information, technical assistance, decentralized decisions.
Technicians and analysts have the ability to connect and communicate with their analytical instruments, devices, and sensors. Capture of the data is automatic, controlled and compliant towards data integrity requirements. Read More...
The Laboratory of the Industry 4.0
Organizing an event like the Paperless Lab Academy requires strong project management skills, execution at its best and a lot of energy. However, the very best part of it is the outstanding opportunities to engage with so many active members of the lab informatics industry and its final users.
While discussing the content of their presentation or workshop for the #PLA2019 agenda, we definitely enjoy discovering people analysis on their today pains and their vision of the lab of the Read More...
Setting the stage for a paperless laboratory
The intelligent analytical laboratory is becoming reality: an automated laboratory where data, methods and processes are seamlessly shared between software applications and analytical instruments. The ultimate goal for a digitalized laboratory is to leverage the power of the data and provide useful information, business intelligence for decision makers sitting at any step of the data life cycle. Fact is that rarely the laboratory reaches the point to feel completely automated and free of paper processes. For a reason or Read More...
Selection Process II: 5 steps in the selection of a LIMS
As mentioned in our previous article about How to select a LIMS, it is highly recommended traveling the path to reduce the emotional part of the purchase and select the right tool with the end in mind. These are the 5 steps to minimize the risk of failure in selecting a digital tool for your laboratory processes.
5 steps to select your data management solution
In this article, we start with the assumption that you have walked your way to define Read More...
Selection process – How to select a LIMS
At one point of a digital transformation project for the laboratory processes, the moment comes to identify the best fit-to-purpose system to manage the laboratory scientific data. As mentioned in previous articles, this step should be by far one of the last in your paperless project. All previous steps will provide you commitment from the team members and stakeholders, will streamline your processes and will ensure a successful implementation.
Readiness: key differentiator for the process of selecting a laboratory data Read More...
Going paperless II – Human Factor is key for a successful digital transformation
A digital transformation endeavor should not be considered different than any other when it comes to set the good foundation of a project. Even though very specific technical skills are required to identify the best “fit to purpose” tools to manage the data of your processes, this should not affect the way to initiate this project.
A Digital Transformation project should challenge the status quo
In our previous article ( where to start with your digital transformation project) we were Read More...