THE Australian partner of medical diagnostics business Cirdan has used Lisburn-developed technology to upgrade its nationwide medical systems.
Cirdan, which employs more than 50 people, is a leading provider of informatics and imaging solutions which enhance and speed up patient diagnosis, and it is recognised as one of the leading suppliers of laboratory information systems (LIS) worldwide and one of the fastest-growing LIS providers in the UK.
And using Cirdan's technology, Australian Clinical Labs has improved the stability and functionality of its pathology workflows through the successful deployment and upgrade of LIS across its nationwide network of pathology labs.
In an upgrade period of just under three hours, the Cirdan team was able to transfer nearly 30 years of Clinical Labs’ data, comprising more than 10 billion rows of migrated data, with zero loss recorded, making it one of the most successful Cirdan ULTRA Go-Lives to date.
Australian Clinical Labs is a leading provider of pathology services in Australia. Its laboratories perform more than eight million episodes each year for a range of clients, including doctors, specialists, patients, hospitals, and corporate businesses.
It is also one of the largest private hospital pathology businesses in Australia, with 4,000 employees servicing more than 90 private and public hospitals and a trusted provider of choice to some of the country’s leading private hospital groups.
Clinical Labs said it was attracted to upgrading Cirdan’s ULTRA LIS due to the change in database technology and related new functionality, supporting a virtual environment and allowing for greater robustness in disaster recovery.
Sean Jackson from Australian Clinical Labs said: “ULTRA is a state of the art world-class LIS, and is a key component of our workflows and daily operations.
“It is a credit to the Cirdan and Clinical Labs’ teams that the Go-live was one of the smoothest that we have experienced for an IT project of this size.”
Dominic Saunders from Cirdan added: “The Cirdan and Clinical Labs’ teams worked closely to ensure the success of the project, and we are delighted to bring Clinical Labs on to our latest technology platform and look forward to furthering our partnership in the future.”
Cirdan - which has well as its Lisburn headquarters has offices in Canada and Australia - specialises in developing technology that supports and speeds up diagnosis, primarily used by those working in pathology.
