NoemaLife Demonstrates HALIA Lab Automation Software at AACC

NoemaLife was demonstrating its HALIA middleware at AACC this year. HALIA Middleware is FDA cleared and is now available in the US. The interface uses a powerful rule-based engine to provide a fully functional response to the needs of laboratories during daily workflow management. The complete web-based computerization system allows central management and connection of every analyzer through a single interface on any workstation.

HALIA middleware enables auto-verification and sample routing, as well as real-time clinical data capture and management, for improved quality control. By supporting open automation systems, and addressing issues such as regulatory compliance, workforce reductions and enhanced quality control, HALIA meets the complex automation and data management challenges currently facing laboratory managers.

Growing levels of Point of Care Testing are reflected in HALIA’s POCT Data Manager function. This gives lab managers a real-time overview of all the data relating to multiple blood gas analyzers or other devices, including instrument maintenance schedules and QC alerts.

HALIA provides detailed real-time data on total turnaround time (TAT) – a key performance indicator in laboratories striving to increase throughput. Addressing the situation where works stops if a LIS/LIMS system goes down, HALIA’s LIS/LIMS backup module allows manual input of sample information so that analysis can continue. Manual samples are then matched to LIS/LIMS data once the connection is restored.

Andrea Chiapponi, Managing Director of NoemaLife S.p.A., commented, ‘In addition to laboratories looking for open middleware which is vendor independent, HALIA will be of interest to IVD device vendors wanting to create turnkey solutions which include maximum LIS/LIMS connectivity. HALIA’s vendor-independence also enables merging of laboratories and even hospitals with different LIS/LIMS solutions into a seamless wide area network. For example, HALIA can manage re-tests on different analysers deployed in separate labs and co-ordinate specimen storage information relating to multiple locations.’