Bika Health
Latest release: Bika Health 1.0
First version of Bika Health - Custom Bika LIMS 2 with patient demographics and clinical laboratory interfaces
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Project Description
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Bika LIMS 2 forms the basis for developing Bika Health 1, our first LIMS specialised for the health laboratory discipline
Bika LIMS 2's analysis profiling and worksheet templating will be put to full use for one click requests of collections of analyses always grouped and processed together, as for TB and HIV testing. Ditto the new QC module and true working time calendar for late analysis alerts
Most recent Bika Health design is discussed at the Bika Health group. Please feel free to participate
We expect much of the sample preparation stages and workflow required by medicalĀ micro-biological analyses to be generically similar to the fire assay procedures in geological laboratories and this development will be shared with Bika Fire Assay
Depending which Electronic Medical Records system (EMR) Bika Health will exchange data with in first implementation, a patient module and EMR interface will also be added. A Patient Demographics module has been successfully demonstrated
The project awaits further sponsorship fro development to continue
If advanced analysis results interpretation is required, Bika's result specification and validation will be enhanced to test for valid ranges not only against sample type, but also patient information such as age, gender and weight
Other areas for development will be customisation towards HL7 encryption and LOINC dictionary, instrument interfaces and SQL as database optionBika invites laboratories in the Health sector in need of a LIMS to submit partnership proposals for implementing a Bika Health 1.0 pilot