Laboratory Automation in a Supplemental Newborn

The Institute of Metabolic Disease performsSupplemental Newborn screening for genetic biochem-ical abnormalities. A challenge facing many specialized high throughput-screening laboratories is fast, efficient data management, instrument integration, reporting, and invoicing. The Supplemental Screening laboratory operates three tandem mass spectrometry analyzers and screens samples for compounds that are not examined by typical newborn screening laboratories. The Institute of Metabolic Disease implemented NeoMate™ LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) to stream-line sample demographic entry, data entry (manual, for more specialized tests and automated entry from instruments), auto-matic result reporting, follow-up and invoicing. The Institute consists of six departments which include; Supplementa