Laboratory Information Management System
Laboratory Information Management System is a type of computer software which is used in sample management in laboratory, for instrument standards, laboratory users and for other functions like plate management, work flow automation and invoicing. Laboratory information management system and laboratory information system perform identical functions. The primary difference is that LIS are generally targeted toward the medical market (hospitals and other medical labs) and LIMS are targeted on the way to research, environmental, or commercial analysis, such as petrochemical or pharmaceutical.
Today’s trend is to move the entire procedure of; information gathering, review, calculation, decision making and release out into the headquarters and away from the office. The goal is to make a faultless organization where:
* Instruments used are amalgamated in the lab network; accept commands and work lists from the LIMS and go back finished results together with raw data back to an innermost repository where the LIMS can update relevant information in the LIMS.
* Lab personnel will execute documentation, calculations, and evaluate results from associated instruments using online information, reference databases and other resources using electronic lab notebooks associated to the LIMS.
* Management can control the lab course, retort to blockages in workflow and make sure regulatory demands.
* External participants (department, company) can put work requests and transcribe on progress, evaluate results and print out scrutiny records and other documentation (maybe even in history).
Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) software facilitates commercial and scientific laboratories to perk up a variety of quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) processes by mechanizing activities such as entering data from instruments. Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) software can also be used to assist laboratories attains authorization based on the technological necessities of ISO/IEC 17025, “General Requirements for the Calibration Laboratories and Proficiency of Testing “. ISO means contraction for the International Standards Organization (ISO). IEC means contraction for the International Electro technical Commission (IEC).