Does Your Lab Need CPR?
Just as cardiovascular health requires ongoing attention and maintenance, clinical laboratories must continuously participate in activities to support their operational health.
7 Ways to Increase Clinical Lab Productivity in a Staffing Crunch
Fortunately, there are ways that clinical labs can make up for an unrelenting staffing shortfall while increasing productivity.
Premila’s Perspective: Secure Your Lab. Protect Your Patients.
DI Digest - Q3 2024 As cyberattacks continue to generate worldwide headlines, one thing is clear: healthcare systems have become primary targets. In 2024 alone, cyber breaches have detrimentally impacted several major healthcare systems. And although there was no malicious intent behind the faulty CrowdStrike software update that caused system outages...
Following Driver Updates in My DI Community
OverviewData Innovations (DI) provides ways to stay up to date on the latest driver updates.The first way is right through an email list. To sign up, go to https://datainnovations.com/e-mail-updates/, enter your information and sign up for product updates.The second way is through My DI Community.When logged into My DI...
Net Gateway Startup Issues (Error 5023)
Overview When IRIS and Instrument Manager (IM) are starting after a server shuts down or restarts, the .NET gateway is not able to start and connect to port 55000. This is known to impact IM2023 (v9.00.00) and later versions of the software. How to Identify this issue When attempting to open IM on...
Instrument Manager Version 9.00.20 Released
Colchester, VT (Aug. 20, 2024) – Data Innovations® (DI) announces the availability of Instrument Manager™ (IM) 2023 MR2, (v9.00.20). This edition is a minor release.IM 2023 MR2 is focused on our continued security initiative to support your organization’s ongoing resistance to cyber threats. Data Innovations understands the impact...
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 critical...
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 may...
Premila’s Perspective: Limitless Lab Enablement
DI Digest - Q2 2024 When it comes down to it, everything done in a clinical lab is focused on patient care. Productivity, turnaround times, instrument precision, testing quality, and adherence to industry standards are all activities undertaken as part of the first step in the process of patient diagnosis and...