Going Digital is The New Growth and Success Mantra For Laboratories

Introduction

The laboratory information / data management workflow protocols in most industries have been constantly transforming over the past two decades. Industries saw an increasing need to ensure accuracy in terms of processes/procedure adherence and data integrity has become important not just because of the respective regulatory stringencies but also because they have realized it enabled them manage laboratory associated risks better while facilitating consistency in terms of operational efficiencies and cost effectiveness.

According to a Global Data survey^[1] conducted between January – March 2021, 35% of pharmaceutical industry professionals believe that they speed up their digital transformation. In another survey conducted by EY^[2] conducted in June 2020, 90% of oil and gas executives agreed that their companies need to invest in digital technology, though varied investment levels.

Be it a small or big laboratory, going digital has been a game changer in terms of their operating efficiencies. With acceptance to this change documentation method has become a greater challenge to the lab managers or IT managers in terms of selecting the right solution provider, who can efficiently translate their lab operations on to a perfectly capable digital platform while easily replacing the current paper based methods. These transformation journeys have been taking longer time as different solution providers bring specific sets of expertise to the table and with so much of information floating on the internet, concluding on a solution which serves them end to end is painstakingly long but a necessary process.