LABORATORY INFORMATICS GUIDE 2022


Intelligent integration


Sophia Ktori discusses the importance of software integration with laboratory informatics experts


lab environment is the likely ‘spaghetti soup’ of existing platforms – possibly from multiple vendors – that are already installed, suggested Richard Milne, vice president and general manager, Digital Science, at Thermo Fisher Scientific. ‘Each of these will offer different levels of integration,’ he said. The situation is compounded


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because even in the same organisation, there may be different suites of instruments and software in separate labs and across departments. While


ne of the most obvious and immediate challenges when bringing new software into a


there is an ambition to integrate instrumentation and software tools across business and geographic sites, the reality may be what Milne described as an ‘unstructured legacy of decisions’. Each of which represented a theoretically attractive investment at the time, but which in practice offered a point solution that ultimately ‘confuses’ the whole environment. This means many organisations will


have some level of legacy investment, in instrumentation, in SOPs, in working practices, and in pieces of software that people use every day. It’s likely that most integration projects will be


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