bioMérieux launches BCI-Net to connect its TEMPO® and VIDAS® platforms to customer LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System). BCI-Net is a bioMérieux communication interface, designed to simplify, secure and speed up data management.

“bioMérieux is always looking for innovations that will bring increased productivity and traceability to our customers,” said Alexandre Mérieux, bioMérieux Corporate Vice President, Industrial Microbiology. “We are proud to be the first company to provide a bidirectional communication interface with the LIMS for both pathogen and quality indicator analysis.”

Today many laboratories are investing in LIMS to help them be compliant with the traceability legislation (ISO 17025) and to improve their productivity. BCI-Net ensures complete traceability. Data quality and integrity are improved since analysis demands and results are automatically transferred between LIMS and the TEMPO® and VIDAS® platforms, thereby reducing possible transcription errors.

Connecting the bioMérieux analyses systems to the LIMS simplifies the laboratory workflow by reducing manual data transfers. The TEMPO®-VIDAS® LIMS connection also allows customers to facilitate and accelerate their supply chain management by checking pathogen and Quality Indicator results as they come in.

With its open architecture platform, BCI-Net is able to connect VIDAS® and TEMPO® to most LIMS.