Guides for lab leaders
Practical, vendor-neutral guidance for lab directors, operations managers, and owners evaluating laboratory software, instrument connectivity, and interfaces.
Start with the decision you are facing.
Lab Dynamo builds laboratory information systems, instrument middleware, interfaces, and client portals for clinical labs. These guides share what we have learned along the way, written for the people who have to choose, implement, and live with the software.
Choosing a system
Start with how to choose a laboratory information system for the full evaluation: LIS vs. LIMS, must-have features by specialty, the interfaces to plan for, hosting, implementation, and ten questions to ask every vendor.
Your specialty
Go deeper on what toxicology labs, anatomic pathology labs, and pharmacogenomics programs need that a general-purpose system often misses.
Connecting instruments and partners
Understand what LIS middleware does and when you need it, and how HL7 and ASTM connect analyzers, EHRs, reference labs, and billing.
All guides
How to choose a laboratory information system
Features by specialty, interfaces, hosting, implementation, and vendor questions.
Read the guideGuideLIS requirements for toxicology labs
Screen-to-confirmation workflows, validity testing, medication reconciliation, and billing.
Read the guideGuideWhat is LIS middleware?
What middleware does, when a lab needs it, and cloud vs. on-site options.
Read the guideGuideHL7 vs. ASTM for lab instrument interfaces
How the two standards differ, how they connect, and which to use.
Read the guideGuideAnatomic pathology LIS requirements
Case, block, and slide tracking, synoptic reporting, digital pathology, and sign-out.
Read the guideGuideChoosing pharmacogenomics reporting software
Genotype-to-phenotype logic, guideline-based recommendations, reports, and EHR delivery.
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