Why LIMS? & New Bika Health Mailing List

Why LIMS?
To facilitate the adoption of open source software in laboratories, and to help motivate the use of Bika in laboratories aimed at their decision makers, we created this thorough document. This document includes the following sections; Summary, Totaling the Cost of LIMS Ownership, Benefits through resource optimization, Key benefit areas, So Why LIMS?, Why web based? (web based vs web enabled), Why professional open source?, Why Bika?
I recommend it as a must read for any laboratory considering their next LIMS purchase, and considering lowering their total cost of ownership. Who wants to pay licenses, if there's an alternative? ;-)

New Bika Health Mailing List
Over the last year and a bit, we've had at least 40 solid requests for a medical or health LIMS/LIS, recently the activity has intensified, with even a couple of sponsors lining up. To better organize the discussion about this next project of Bika Lab Systems; Bika Health, we have created a specific group for it. The group is open to the public, but posting requires membership, you can apply directly at the group, or send me an email. The purpose of this group? The following intro says it all:

"This discussion group is to establish requirements and development plans for Bika Health, an open source laboratory information management system (LIMS) for medical laboratories, based on feature rich Bika LIMS 2

For more information please visit the Bika Health project page at www.bikalabs.com/health, the central repository for project deliverables"

Ooh yeah, here is the group's URL: http://groups.google.com/group/bika-health