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Thermo Fisher Scientific wins Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Award for third consecutive year
06-25-2010
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PHILADELPHIA—For the third year in
a
row, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is a winner of Microsoft Corp.'s
Life Sciences Innovation Awards, which recognize best-in-class
companies for their innovative use of Microsoft-based solutions.
Microsoft selected Thermo Fisher, along
with Emory University,
part of the Atlantic Clinical and
Translational Science Institute (ACTSI), as winner of this award for
their use of Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS
(laboratory information
management system) to advance information exchange in the clinical
and translational science environment across a diverse set
of
laboratories.
A key initiative for ACTSI is the
selection and deployment of LIMS across the consortium to
support a
"virtual bio-repository" environment. The ACTSI implemented
Nautilus LIMS at Emory University as part of an enterprise
biospecimen
management system rollout to enhance workflow, foster
collaboration and effectively manage samples. With the need to
connect many laboratories and
external institutions with its
enterprise LIMS, Emory reportedly achieved a level of standardization
with Nautilus that is replicable across
configurations and gave Emory
and ACTSI an informatics solution that will be an important component
of their translational science informatics
infrastructure.
The award, was announced at the Drug
Information Association's (DIA) 46th Annual Meeting in
Washington,
D.C.,
"The Emory/ACTSI implementation takes
advantage of Thermo Scientific WebAccess deployed on
Microsoft
technologies to deliver rich client functionality via a web browser
to both internal and external users," said Michael Naimoli,
director
of life sciences industry solutions, Microsoft, in
presenting the award. "In addition, the Study Design Module (SDM)
created by Thermo Fisher and
Emory using Microsoft tools provides an
easy to use graphical user interface for study design, which allows
the ACTSI to design workflows more
quickly."
The implementation of the Nautilus LIMS
solution reportedly will enable consistent terminology usage and
information model mapping across different laboratories, allowing
integration with upstream clinical study systems and downstream
laboratory
analysis processes. The solution is said to have resulted
in significant cost savings due to reduced maintenance needs and
simpler integration, as well
as improving efficiency and data
quality.
Time savings have also been generated
as deployment of a standard base
configuration with optional
additional lab specific configuration minimizes deployment time for
initial lab implementations and use of the new SDM
extension will
reduce the configuration time for new study protocols by as much as
50 percent, providing more efficient management and tracking of
mid-study modifications.
In addition, the audit and traceability
features of Nautilus ensure regulatory compliance
throughout the
management of research specimens. The ACTSI Clinical Interaction
Network Nautilus implementation currently supports 117 study
investigators/coordinators conducting 47 research studies with more
than 37,000 original samples and more than 102,000 aliquots.
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