5 Effective Steps to Manage LIMS

1. 5 EFFECTIVE STEPS TO MANAGE LIMS ~ By Sanjana

2. INTRODUCTION Upgrading your clinical laboratory might be the latest enhancement you are implementing in your lab. This upgrade means you are automating the key functions to easily workflow. To make sure that your systems work in a smooth, harmonized and safe manner, consider installing a cloud-based Laboratory Management system in your Lab. The cloud-based LIMS is no doubt the best choice to make advantages. A few of which are: The data stored in the cloud are fully encrypted, hence 100% data safety. ● Cost saving as there is no need of server maintenance. ● maintain the With effective data recovery, any data loss can be reverted. ● No manpower required as everything is stored in the cloud, unlike physical servers. ● Information as it has many 2

3. Below are some simple tips to effectively manage your Cloud-based Laboratory Information Management System Implement a Cloud-Based Service Desk ● Easy of Mobility ● LIMS Staff Training ● Increase Speed of Operation ● Ease up the Implementation Process and Quality ● Indicators 3

4. 1. IMPLEMENT A CLOUD BASED SERVICE DESK

5. “ Implement a Cloud-Based Service Desk The most important step to do while implementing a cloud-based LIMS system is to provide a mini web page for clients to find information that caters to the need of every patient. The internet is the influence king of the virtual world; so most of your patients will visit your website first, before heading over to your lab. Set up a cloud-based service desk and assist your patients just like you would do in your physical laboratory premises. Make sure the webpage has a live chat facility so your customers can chat about the types of tests they can do and laboratory locations. Providing a live chat facility can help you to follow-up in case the customers log out of the page suddenly. Also, features such as patient portals and customer portals empower your customers to download report through the website making them completely independent. 5

6. 2. EASE OF MOBILITY Investing in a LIMS mobile app or website is the biggest advantage that Cloud-based servers can provide a laboratory. Since the data is stored at a remote location and is not bound by the constraints of physical hardware on the premises, investing on a mobile version of your laboratory’s website or even an App is a good idea. You can take patient satisfaction to another level when you offer your patients and potential patients the ease to reach or access their health information on the go. With a virtual service desk in place, going mobile would mean more and better interactions, increased patient satisfaction. 6

7. 3. LIMS STAFF TRAINING It’s essential to train laboratory staffs to unlock the full power of your LIMS software application. To utilize effectively, you can segregate the employees, department wise and accordingly. Delegating one person as the head of training in every department can take the responsibility of providing LIMS related knowledge sharing and periodic training. LIMS software training can include configuration options, storage, and retrieval of data, managing your workflows and reporting. Staff training in each department is very important for businesses to succeed. LIMS software provide training 7

8. 4. INCREASE SPEED OF OPERARTION While there is technology in place to conduct meetings between people from different locations, Cloud-based LIS effectively helps access any data from any location as long as their login has access rights to that data. This ensures faster exchange of information resulting in an overall increased speed of operations of the laboratory. 8

9. EASE UP IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS & QUALITY INDICATORS The constant check of quality to ensure stability in business is the major requirement for any industry. With clinical laboratory, it is more of a service quality check rather than product one. Hence, quality indicators are of utmost importance to a laboratory. LIMS can monitor jobs like Sample monitoring, sample workflow process, patient visit count, inventory flow, cash flow, consultant performance, and overall business fluctuations over a period and analyze the metrics to issue performance-based documents. Then LIMS can develop standard quality indicators and key performance indicators. These are the few steps in which you could optimize our laboratory functions by using cloud-based LIMS. By identifying your business metrics, you can now establish new grounds for business optimization with cloud technology. 9

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