Thermo Fisher
Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it
is a 2011 winner of Microsoft Corporation's Life Sciences Innovation Awards.
This is the fourth consecutive year that the company has been recognized by Microsoft,
demonstrating Thermo Fisher's leading position as a provider of innovative enterprise
informatics solutions to the life sciences industry.
The awards, announced
at the Drug Information Association's (DIA) 47th annual meeting in Chicago,
honor companies using Microsoft solutions to realize business and information
technology benefits. This year's notable winners are revolutionizing medicine
by bringing therapeutic breakthroughs to the market faster to fight serious
ailments, improve healthcare and enhance people's quality of life.
"The life sciences
industry is uniquely positioned with many new challenges, and pressure is
stronger than ever to cut costs and bring new drugs and therapies to market
faster," said Michael Naimoli, worldwide managing director, Life Sciences,
Microsoft Corp. "Each year, we are impressed with how the winners demonstrate
sustainable impacts through technology, and we are proud that Microsoft's
software platforms play an important role in enabling these achievements in
life sciences."
Microsoft selected Thermo
Fisher and its customer Nova Biologicals, a leading full-service testing
laboratory for water, medical devices, pharmaceutical, and food industries
globally, as a winner for their use of Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS
(laboratory information management system), integrated with a DMS (document
management system). The implementation provides a cohesive solution to
facilitate compliance in Nova's Texas
facility.
Thermo Fisher is a Microsoft
Partner, and the solution deployed at Nova is an excellent illustration of how
Thermo Scientific LIMS can bring the full strength of its company resources and
industry partnerships to address the challenges faced by customers around the
world. The alliance between Thermo Fisher and its DMS providers goes a long way
toward addressing the need for regulated content management, integrated
workflow administration and compliant collaboration in the enterprise setting.
In order to comply
with its Texas license for NELAC accreditation, Nova needed to change its way
of working. It identified information management in its laboratory as a
solution to future-proof the business. Nova also recognized the need to move
from time-consuming, manual, paper-based processes to a fully automated,
versatile and efficient solution. With Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS and
a compliant DMS, Nova developed a personalized, seamless solution.
"We are delighted
that our innovative technologies have been recognized for the fourth
consecutive year by Microsoft," said Dave Champagne, vice president and general
manager, Informatics, Thermo Fisher Scientific. "Nova needed a document
management solution that could be tightly integrated with SampleManager LIMS,
and our partnership with DMS provider NextDocs Corporation enabled us to fill
this need for the customer. This end-to-end solution has been instrumental in
helping Nova maintain its NELAC accreditation in Texas, refine its work
processes and improve the quality and speed of its customer reporting capabilities."
Innovation Award candidates
are typically global pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies
that are innovatively applying technology to create therapeutic innovations.
Winners are selected by an esteemed panel of industry experts and are
highlighted on the Microsoft website at
http://www.microsoft.com/lifesciences
and on the Microsoft in Health blog at
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_in_health/.
For more information
about Thermo Fisher's award history for Informatics, please visit
www.thermoscientific.com/awards. To learn more about Thermo
Fisher solutions please call +1866-463-6522 (US), +44 161 942 3000 (EU), e-mail
marketing.informatics@thermofisher.com or visit
www.thermoscientific.com/informatics.