Technidata participates in the microbiology lab modernization of the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital, France: a laboratory at the forefront of technology thanks to lab automation and paperless microbiology.
The hospital microbiology laboratory has decided to automate its organization by deploying a BD Kiestra lab automation system, together with a paperless microbiology management based on the Technidata paperless microbiology LIS. With this large-scale project, the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital is now a pioneer site, among the first French organizations to get such a modern full lab automation environment.
It is one of the first University Hospital microbiology laboratories in France to have installed such an innovative and efficient working tool, as the latter enables the lab to automate numerous analytical processes – streaking, incubating, and reading the cultures. The objectives: streamline repetitive tasks with very little added value, increase productivity, improve traceability and streaking processes standardization, reduce contamination and error rates.
More than just an interface between the Technidata lis and the BD Kiestra lab automation system, the respective teams have strived to truly integrate the two systems: the bidirectional screen synchronization between the lab automation system and the LIS has significantly improved the working conditions for the laboratory staff.
Thus, Microbiologists can easily access the agar images that are stored on the BD Kiestra lab automation system for the digital media reading or for asking for a complementary test, while performing the clinical validation using the Technidata lis. Yet, it is also possible to use the lab automation system to access the request managed by the LIS, in order to view complementary results, such as those of pre-culture steps or cytology tests.
The Technidata lis has been designed with and for microbiologists; it benefits from the editor proven expertise in this field and provides the laboratories with functionalities that perfectly match the specific needs of this discipline. The software handles all the different laboratory processes; sample management, clinical review, protocol customization, epidemiology, as well as the interfaces with the different microbiology instruments and lab automation systems.
In order to make it possible for all the laboratories – including those that do not consider installing a lab robotics system – to leverage all the benefits of the paperless microbiology, Technidata has launched TDBactiLink, a middleware version of its microbiology LIS. This microbiology middleware easily integrates the laboratory organization, and enables the laboratory to benefit from those functionalities dedicated to the discipline in a cost-effective way without changing the existing LIS.
TDBactiLink brochure