Report: Aligent's Cartagenia Deal Evidence of Trend Towards Computer Power in Labs
NEW YORK, May 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Kalorama says Agilent's recent acquisition of a diagnostic software company is evidence of a trend towards more powerful information systems in laboratories that will drive the LIS(laboratory information systems) market to towards growth. Kalorama estimates the market for LIS systems at 1.5 billion dollars. Agilent Technologies announced the acquisition of Cartagenia, maker of Bench Lab, a platform for recording and sharing data produced by clinical genetics and molecular pathology laboratories. Kalorama Information's report on Laboratory Information Systems (http://www.kaloramainformation.com/redirect.asp?progid=87449&productid=7796512) suggested players would have to make partnerships and acquisitions to make their systems relevant to laboratories.
"Last year we suggested that a key driver of lab information systems was software upgrades due to genomic testing, and this trend is evident in this deal" said Bruce Carlson, Publisher of Kalorama Information. "The kind of analysis being conducted for clinical applications will require software that many players don't have.
Cartagenia supplies diagnostic software, database systems, and related services to genetic labs and clinicians. Cartagenia has offices in Leuven, Belgium, and Boston, Massachusetts, and its devices are FDA-registered as exempt Class I Medical Devices in the U.S. and as Class I Medical Devices in Europe. The Cartagenia Bench platform is built in collaboration with genetics labs and clinical experts involved in routine medical practice. Bench Lab NGS addresses the specific needs of genetic diagnostic labs and clinicians. October 2013, Cartagenia announced that more than 120 labs and clinics across three continents have now adopted its Bench platform genetics diagnostics solution for use in daily practice. Bench is a web-based software and database platform with features and knowledge sources that allow clinicians to analyze, interpret and manage genomic variations in routine diagnostics. October 2013, Cartagenia released a new version of its Bench Lab NGS module that is focused on increasing a lab's efficiency through faster report generation and has added: Flexible templates that allow lab reports to automatically adapt to patient findings. The introduction of nuclear family analyses that take into account parent and sibling genotype and affected status, as well as the mode of inheritance hypotheses.
Kalorama estimates that the market for laboratory information management systems will reach 1.5 billion dollars in 2015, according to Kalorama Information. Among many factors, the healthcare market research publisher said that growth would be spurred on by the desire of clinical diagnostic laboratories to handle larger amounts of data from molecular testing and sequencing. Kalorama Information's Laboratory Information Systems (LIS / LIMS): Software, Hardware and Service Markets for Clinical Labs and Drug Discovery Labs can be obtained at: http://www.kaloramainformation.com/redirect.asp?progid=87449&productid=7796512.
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