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Straight on the heels of a COVID resurgence this summer, US laboratories are bracing for yet another swing in their seemingly ever-changing staffing and resource needs to address new clinical and wastewater testing for human monkeypox virus (hMPXV). “The unexpectedly quick spread of monkeypox likely means our lab clients may have to invest in new testing,” […]

18 August 2022

Earlier this year, HORIZON Lab Systems and ApolloLIMS and were acquired by Clinisys Group, growing the organization’s community and public health diagnostics capability. Clinisys is one of the largest providers of laboratory information systems (LIS), order entry and result consultation, and public health solutions in disease surveillance and outbreak management across the United Kingdom, Europe, and United States. The […]

16 August 2022

COVID cases have re-surged this summer in many regions of the US. New omicron variants are largely the cause of new waves of infection, fueled by increased summer travel and relaxed mask requirements. “Customers are telling us they’ve been ramping back up since May 2022 to handle more COVID testing,” says Robert Benz, marketing manager for HORIZON, […]

27 July 2022

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country based in Greater Manchester, is working with CliniSys to deploy a single, laboratory information system across its pathology services to improve clinical practice and patient care. New LIMS system will help the Trust and partners deliver around 30 million tests a year for a population of 1.2 million people.

27 June 2022

The pathology service at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) in Harlow has introduced the CliniSys Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) sample collection module to improve efficiency and experiences for their patients and staff.

6 May 2022

Pathology network takes in Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, creating one of the largest, consolidated lab services in the country. A single instance of WinPath Enterprise will support hub and spoke working and further change.

20 April 2022

CliniSys Group has acquired ApolloLIMS, a leading provider of laboratory information management systems based in Nashville, Tennessee, and with specialist expertise in clinical, public health, toxicology and molecular diagnostics.

12 April 2022

Clinical diagnostic laboratories have specific requirements to maintain chain of custody of all samples and data generated across the testing workflow, and this requirement is especially challenging for NGS-based tests, where many daughter samples are generated across the multi-day workflow. Clinical diagnostic labs also must retain patient data for at least 2 years after the test […]

19 March 2022

NGS Workflow Overview The NGS workflow is a multi-step process that creates some challenges for the diagnostic testing laboratory. The chemical processes generate many daughter samples that must be traced back to the original parent specimen. Laboratories need effective naming conventions and a robust LIMS that can maintain chain of custody across the workflow and […]

9 February 2022

Acquisition extends CliniSys capabilities into new and complementary market sectors serving environmental, water quality testing, public health, toxicology, and agriculture.

3 February 2022

CliniSys acquires HORIZON Lab Systems and combines with Sunquest Information Systems to create one of the world’s largest organizations dedicated to diagnostics and laboratory informatics. Combined group to enable better public health outcomes through innovation in diagnostics and laboratory informatics technology

18 January 2022

Acquisition extends CliniSys capabilities into new and complementary market sectors serving environmental, water quality testing, public health, toxicology, and agriculture.

5 January 2022