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Laboratory Information Management Systems: Development and Implementation for a Quality Assurance Laboratory

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There are better descriptions of Laboratory Information Management for free in a trade magazines and white papers on any vendor site. Most of the book consists of definitions. The first chapter, titled, "Historical Perspective," should be about the early development of LIMS; surprise it is a list of historic events in the evolution of computers

The chapter on LIMS evaluations has a section that is two sentences long on the topic of Hardware/Software Configurations. It informs the reader that the vendor should inform you as to whether the software will run on your computer. Duh! The next section on Database Management tops this in that it is a whole sentence long. I can only wonder what the first edition of this book was like, since this is the expanded version. This is more like an outline for a book that should be written, or a student term paper that was written the night before it was due.

I am now totally annoyed that I have to spend by lunch hour going to the post to return this book.

This is an index to the book that SHOULD have been written. This is a good overview, but does not provide examples, walk-throughs or details.

The book does not include a walk-through and a specific guide. It's a good book nonetheless

The laboratory manager assigned me to lead the team to search for a new LIMS. I had interviewed several consultants to assist in the process and requested quotes to create and evaluate a request for proposal for our laboratory. The quotes came back in the thousands of dollars; my manager decided that it would be more cost effective to perform this task internally. So I obtained a copy of the book for the LIMS team members and we read the book to gain a better understanding of the LIMS subject matter. The book was informative and provided many definitions which were helpful in understanding much of the material which was new to our team. The book contained a sample request for proposal that with minor customization was a good fit for our laboratory. The book was informative and the sample request for proposal saved a considerable amount of time and money, since we had never written one before. This book provided guidance in the selection and implementation of a new LIMS for our laboratory.