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Practical guidance on ISO compliance, LIMS best practices, and laboratory quality management.

Quality
8 min read
12 May 2025

ISO 17025:2017 — the key changes every lab manager needs to know

The 2017 revision of ISO 17025 introduced risk-based thinking, updated impartiality requirements, and new flexibility in how labs document their QMS. We break down what changed and what it means for your daily operations.

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Quality Control
6 min read
28 April 2025

Westgard rules in your LIMS: how automated QC evaluation prevents reporting errors

Manual QC chart review is time-consuming and error-prone. We look at how a LIMS with built-in Westgard rule evaluation catches out-of-control situations before results leave the lab.

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Onboarding
10 min read
10 April 2025

From zero to accreditation-ready in 48 hours: our onboarding playbook

Most LIMS implementations take months. We explain the architectural decisions — intake links, guided wizards, bulk import, and the go-live readiness checklist — that let labs go live in days.

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Compliance
7 min read
2 March 2025

Audit trails and electronic signatures: meeting ISO 17025 clause 7.11

Clause 7.11 requires labs to keep records of who reviewed, approved, and modified test results. We explain what an audit-trail-compliant LIMS must record and how electronic signatures satisfy accreditation body expectations.

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Technical
9 min read
14 February 2025

Measurement uncertainty budgets: why your LIMS should calculate them automatically

Uncertainty of measurement is one of the most misunderstood requirements in ISO 17025. We explain the GUM framework and why connecting uncertainty budgets directly to test methods in your LIMS saves hours of manual calculation.

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Security
5 min read
20 January 2025

How schema-per-tenant architecture keeps laboratory data isolated

When your LIMS is in the cloud, how do you know your data is truly isolated from other labs? We explain the schema-per-tenant model BLIMS uses and why it provides stronger guarantees than row-level security alone.

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