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6 Strategies to Boost Federal Clinical Lab Performance

As the demands for healthcare continue to rise, so do the challenges faced by healthcare organizations. Shrinking hospital budgets, along with physician and nursing shortages, are among the most visible of these challenges in the public eye. Less visible but no less important are the challenges faced by clinical laboratories,...

Optimizing Federal Clinical Laboratories

10 Benefits of Truly Vendor-Neutral Middleware for Federal Health Systems

Federal clinical laboratories face many of the same challenges as civilian labs – shrinking budgets and staffing resources combined with increasing volumes of lab orders. But because federal labs are dependent on government funding for their operations, it’s even more...

Is Your Lab Middleware Shortchanging Your Laboratory’s Performance?

10 Benefits of Truly Vendor-Neutral Middleware

Vendor neutrality in lab middleware software refers to the ability of connectivity software to work seamlessly with various instruments and devices from different manufacturers without favoring any particular vendor.   Truly vendor-neutral or “agnostic” middleware, however, offers many more benefits than simply connecting instruments. Your lab...

Instrument Manager Version 9.00.10 Released

Colchester, VT (March 4, 2024) – Data Innovations announces the availability of Instrument Manager™ (IM) 2023 MR1, (v9.00.10). This edition is a minor release. IM 2023 MR1 is focused on cybersecurity enhancements and new lab uptime capabilities, including global TCP/IP Keep Alive functionality.  In addition, IM 2023 MR1...

Instrument Manager Daylight-Saving Time Guidance for IM Versions 8.07 and Higher

Daylight-savings time begins Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 2 a.m. and ends Sunday, November 3 at 2 a.m.

Instrument ManagerTM can support both automatic and manual adjustment of the system clock to account for daylight savings. Both approaches will have same effect on any timestamps applied to specimens moving through Instrument...