CAP TODAY Pathology/Laboratory Medicine/Laboratory Management
BD releases urine culture app
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) announced new technology that can automatically report and release negative urine cultures.
The BD Kiestra urine culture app, together with BD BBL plated media, uses digital imaging and software algorithms to determine the amount of growth on a urine culture plate from clean caught and catheterized samples. Using the BD Kiestra ReadA compact’s intelligent incubation and imaging device with high-throughput robotics to perform time series imaging, plates with no significant growth can be automatically released for disposal and the results reported to a compatible laboratory information system. Plates with significant growth automatically go into a queue for clinician analysis.
The definition of significant growth can be customized using patient demographics and lab-directed rules.
The urine culture app was validated in collaboration with the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
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Beckman Coulter Diagnostics introduces DxOne
Beckman Coulter Diagnostics has introduced its DxOne information management solutions, an integrated system of technologies and capabilities designed to ease data access and usability. The suite of next-generation technologies applies cloud-computing to provide remote-access functionality for an answers-anywhere-anytime approach to care and laboratory activities.
DxOne Inventory Manager eases inventory control functions to help labs minimize costs, ensure tight turnaround times, track trends, and reduce administrative duties through automation and electronic capabilities. DxOne Command Central helps save time by giving personnel the ability to monitor multiple instruments in real time from a single workstation. DxOne Insights streamlines workflow and efficiency by connecting instruments throughout a laboratory network.[hr]