Lancet
Laboratories
chooses
Netlims’ LabOS
product to
replace its LIS
WHO Africa Innovation
Challenge launched
The World Health Organization has launched
the WHO Africa Innovation Challenge
N
etlims, a global leader in laboratory
information systems (LIS), has
announced that it has been selected to
implement its flagship LabOS product across
the African continent for Lancet Laboratories,
a major African laboratory.
LabOS will support an extensive range
of services, such as clinical laboratories,
microbiology, anatomic pathology and
genetic services, and will serve a broad team
of technicians, physicians, veterinarians, and
patients. The system will be implemented
in more than 500 service centres and 150
laboratories and hospitals (including five
large regional reference labs), deployment
has begun at several sites.
The scattered landscape and sometimes
fraught infrastructure in certain areas of
Africa, combined with stringent regulations,
makes Africa a particularly challenging
market for a LIS provider. LabOS will help
Lancet continue to adhere to international
diagnostic criteria such as ISO, and national
regulatory requirements such as SANAS.
“Lancet processes in excess of 2.5 million
tests each month and is growing. There are
very few LIS products with the capacity and
scale to accommodate a system as complex
as ours,” said John Sole, IT Director, Lancet.
“After surveying the sites of several top LIS
providers, Netlims was the only provider
whose customers demonstrated the diverse
functionality, flexibility, and longevity
needed to satisfy our diverse stakeholders.”
T he World Health Organization
(WHO) has launched the WHO Africa
Innovation Challenge. will also provide continued support to
healthcare innovators through a digital
platform in the longer term.
The challenge is calling innovators,
researchers and community-based
initiatives including youths and women
that are working on novel solutions to
improve health outcomes and apply new
and fresh thinking to address unmet
health needs for Africa. The launch of this challenge and platform
serves as a precursor to the Africa Health
Forum in Cape Verde in March 2019;
the premier gathering of political and
business leaders in the region devoted
to health. Finalists will be awarded
a sponsored opportunity for their
innovations to be showcased at the Africa
Health Forum where they will get the
opportunity to profile their solutions and
meet with top political, government and
business leaders in the health space. n
It will prioritise innovative and scalable
healthcare solutions for selection in the
categories of product innovation, service
innovation and social innovation and
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