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News Release from: Bio-Rad Laboratories | Subject: Advia Chemistry and Advia Centaur
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 01 February 2007
Optimising clinical laboratory test
systems
Bio-Rad Laboratories will provide its quality control products and Unity QC data management solutions for use on Siemens Diagnostics's Advia Chemistry and Advia Centaur immunoassay systems
The combination of the quality control products and data management solutions will help ensure Siemens Diagnostics customers of the reliability and precision of their clinical laboratory test systems "This is an ideal pairing," said John Goetz, Bio-Rad vice president and group manager clinical diagnostics
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 19 Feb 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Customers will not only gain access to a greater breadth of quality control products, but they also will have online access to quality control data provided by thousands of laboratories worldwide for peer group interlaboratory comparison".
"Ensuring the reliability of patient data is crucial to overall laboratory performance," said Anthony Bihl, CEO of Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics.
"Our agreement with Bio-Rad is an important step in providing our customers with the tools they need to generate the best and most reliable data possible".
Laboratories using Bio-Rad and certain Siemens Diagnostics controls may submit their quality control data to Bio-Rad's Unity interlaboratory programme and use one of Bio-Rad's Unity product options.
The Unity products offer varying levels of QC data management functionality ranging from basic QC data submission and participation in significant worldwide peer groups to advanced QC data management and analysis and reports in real time, providing laboratories with increased confidence in their test systems and proficiency survey outcomes.
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