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• May 2024: Live in Nigeria!

  Following an intensive five month cloud-hosted pilot at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC) in the Osun state of Nigeria, with very few problems reported, we deployed the latest version of SEDRI-LIMS to a local university server.  Once approved, we were able to declare it a live site and real patient data is now being entered.   It's amusing to reflect on the steps leading up to this.  After about three months of trouble-free piloting, with vast amounts of test ...  Read

• June 2024: Live in Cambodia!

  This week, SEDRI-LIMS finally went live in COMRU's research laboratory at the Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) in Siem Reap.  This was the culmination of months of customisation, refinement and on-site testing with real patient data following our visit in December.  One reason it has taken a little longer than expected to reach this stage is the sheer complexity and attention to detail associated with a research lab that has been performing AMR for over 10 years (and using a bespoke system ...  Read

• June 2024: Fleming Facilitation

  On May 1st, after much anticipation, we had our first informal chat with the Fleming Fund, as convened by Heidi Hopkins, the Technical Director (thanks Heidi!).  This had been a long time coming as Ben Amos, our consulting microbiologist in the UK, who has been with us from the start, back in 2020, is also a Fleming Fund member and has been looking to bring us together for a while now, once the timing was right.  The initial chat went very well, despite me (Matt) having to join from a noisy c...  Read

• July 2024: Partnering with Partners In Health!

  In the last week of July, after introductions from the Wellcome Trust, we presented and demo'd SEDRI-LIMS to a delegation from Partners In Health (PIH), an international, non-profit public health organization dedicated to improving healthcare in the poorest areas of developing countries.   There appeared to be a strong and urgent need for a free-to-use microbiology LIMS among the PIH managed sites and our presentation and demo seemed to hit the spot, so much so that we have now been directly...  Read

• August 2024: Argentine Approval

  After a multi-year pilot of SEDRI-LIMS at the CEMAR (Centro de Especialidades Médicas Ambulatorias) hospital and related facilities in Rosario, the largest city in the Santa Fe province of Argentina, we are delighted to announce that ministerial approval has been granted for full implementation at two initial hospitals in the vicinity, as a prelude to live deployment at CEMAR itself and other related facilities.   The first of these two is the "Hospital de San Lorenzo – Granaderos a Caballo...  Read

• August 2024: Lift-off in LatAm!

  As a direct consequence of the implementation decision at Rosario, Argentina, the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has now identified 19 new laboratories in Central and South America for SEDRI-LIMS deployment!  These include hospitals in Honduras, Nicaragua, Cuba, St Lucia, Ecuador, Suriname and Uruguay.  PAHO has been a strong supporter of the SEDRI-LIMS program from the outset, having attended our first global stakeholder meeting in April 2021 at which we demo'd the first version of...  Read

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