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MilliporeSigma acquires BSSN Software

MilliporeSigma has acquired BSSN Software, a Darmstadt, Germany-based laboratory informatics company that provides middleware for facilitating data flow between lab instruments and systems.

MilliporeSigma will combine BSSN’s technology with its market access and laboratory domain knowledge to develop and commercialize an open and interoperable platform for laboratory data, the company reported.

“BSSN Software and the capabilities that it brings will allow MilliporeSigma’s customers to better use and share their scientific data—the most important part of laboratory experiments,” said Jean-Charles Wirth, head of applied solutions at MilliporeSigma, in a press release.

BSSN’s software can collect scientific data from more than 200 lab instrument models and convert it into a single, unified format. The middleware can connect lab instruments to such products as laboratory information management systems, electronic lab notebooks, and enterprise resource planning systems.

MilliporeSigma, 800-645-5476

New Abbott platform examines data from across hospitals

Abbott has added the AlinIQ integrated platform to its line of AlinIQ professional services and informatics solutions so hospitals can collect and analyze siloed data to make more informed business- and patient care-related decisions.

Using the AlinIQ platform and Abbott’s professional services group, hospitals can gather data from across the continuum of care, allowing care teams to make more informed, rapid decisions related to operational performance, quality assurance, and patient treatment.

Abbott’s Business Performance package, its first offering to use the AlinIQ platform, will focus on identifying operational efficiencies in the laboratory. “Taking a customized approach to each hospital’s unique needs, the Business Performance package will use the expertise of Abbott’s operational analysts and the platform’s ability to collect data from multiple sources to identify insights that could lead to reduced administrative and processing costs in the lab,” according to an Abbott press release.

Abbott, 847-937-6100

LabCorp and Mount Sinai to create digital pathology center

LabCorp and Mount Sinai Health System are working together to establish the Mount Sinai Digital and Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Pathology Center of Excellence.

LabCorp, which has implemented the Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution in four of its laboratories and plans to install it in others, will lead the effort to integrate digital pathology capabilities for primary diagnosis and consultations across Mount Sinai’s eight hospitals and select ambulatory care centers in the New York metropolitan area.

The IntelliSite solution initially will be used at Mount Sinai to interpret genitourinary malignancies—primarily prostate tumors—and cancers of the head and neck. “The next planned stage of implementation is for Mount Sinai pathologists to use the digital pathology solution to provide consultations for cases interpreted by LabCorp’s Dianon Pathology specialty laboratory,” the companies said in a joint statement.

The center of excellence will be housed in Mount Sinai’s Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine. The department processes more than 80 million diagnostic tests a year.

Data Innovations selects STS for rules verification testing

Data Innovations and STS recently announced a strategic partnership in which STS will provide automated rules verification testing to accelerate laboratory autoverification validation and deployment of Data Innovations’ Instrument Manager connectivity software.

As a result of the partnership, “new or upgrading [Instrument Manager] Autoverification lab customers will drastically reduce time to deployment for rules implementations,” the companies reported in a joint press announcement. “Further, the automated testing increases rules accuracy and creates inspection-ready documentation.”

Data Innovations, 802-658-2850

Dr. Aller teaches informatics in the Department of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He can be reached at raller@usc.edu. Hal Weiner is president of Weiner Consulting Services LLC, Eugene, Ore. He can be reached at hal@weinerconsulting.com.