By Charlie Sodano, on August 13th, 2010
Media for Learning
It wasn’t that long ago when the only books to read were printed on paper. Electronic books have been around for more than 15 years, but only recently have caught on with the public. Try to remember the last time that you read a one of two pages that was hand written. [...]
By Charlie Sodano, on July 16th, 2010
Why are People Afraid of Change?
My entry into Records and Information Management came about when I got an assignment about 20 years ago to bring new technology into my company. I soon discovered that scientific breakthroughs were good, but the potential to run your business better and faster, with less manpower, via business process management [...]
By John Trigg, on July 5th, 2010
Whichever way you look at laboratory integration, sooner or later the ‘data’ problem will rear its ugly head. For years LIMS projects have wrestled with the vagaries of proprietary interfaces and data formats, and it is increasingly becoming an issue within ELN projects. If you are a LinkedIn member, take a look at this [...]
By Charlie Sodano, on June 18th, 2010
Signatures and the Law
When a person writes his name, that is his signature. However, this is a relatively recent development in human history. Beginning around 3 BC, documents were authenticated and made somewhat tamper resistant with wax seals that were imprinted with information that identified the author. Signatures were usually made with a [...]
By John Trigg, on March 30th, 2010
In the relentless pursuit of increased efficiency and better productivity in our laboratories we turn to computers and automation to drive out inefficient human and paper-based processes. So it was with some surprise that amongst my daily news feeds that keep me informed of the latest and greatest breakthroughs in laboratory matters, I came across [...]