Trends and Practicalities of Digital Transformation in Life Sciences R&D
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Trends and Practicalities of Digital Transformation in Life Sciences R&D
November 8, 2024
“While digital lab benefits are clear, the journey to full digital transformation in research can be long, costly, and bring new challenges of adapting workflows, providing staff training, and staying abreast of an ever-changing regulatory and technological environment…Navigating the availability of data and ensuring lab staff are trained in how to optimise digital workflows and tools is part of the balance in making the move to a digital lab and gaining the benefits.”
In this article from Springer Nature's The Link, Saskia Hoving explores the current trends in digital lab transformation, from advanced robotics systems that integrate with laboratory information management systems (LIMS) to ensure compliance with regulatory standards, to applying machine learning and AI solutions to data mining that “enables predictive medicine where you can know that someone is more likely to get a disease and target medicine, so you can get the right drugs to the right patients, at the right time,” to robotic prescription systems that use barcode scanning and electronic health record (EHR) integration to ensure accuracy.
We know what Saskia’s talking about from experience – Leap Consulting Group helps labs drive many of the transformations mentioned in this article. If you’d like to talk to LEAP managing partner Josh directly about what he’s seeing in clinical labs and laboratory science, including, LIMS, LDTs, FDA Approved Testing, RUO Assays, Lab Automation, Lab informatics, Preanalytical Workflows, and more, please contact us.