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Access all your pathology data with ease
Laboratory information systems can be notoriously opaque, preventing full access to your pathology data. The PhoenixSoft Data Companion solution complements your laboratory information management system, providing you with complete access to your data.
For selected LIMS, Data Companion provides bulk data extraction and subsequent real time update of pathology data into an accessible industry standard database. Data Companion also provides a full data conversion and archive solution.
Through Data Companion, pathology patient and reference data from disciplines including blood sciences, microbiology, histology and blood transfusion become fully available.
In addition to providing access to your pathology data, Data Companion includes a comprehensive set of diagnostic facilities that, dependent upon the source LIMS, allow data issues or anomalies to be identified.
The real time data extraction provided by Data Companion equips you with the ideal source for live dashboards and up to date statistics. As an example, this is proving invaluable to NHS Trusts using Data Companion during the current COVID-19 pandemic, as they are able to benefit from the immediate reporting of patient and staff test results.
Patient data, reference data and field mappings can be configured to match your LIMS settings.
Choose the data you want to import, set the processes running and monitor progress.
View and filter your data within Data Companion to ensure optimal configuration.
Any data exceptions are detailed, and tools provided to help locate and identified the problem in your LIMS.
Additional diagnostic tools help identify issues in your data with the ability to view the source data at the lowest level.
| Operating System | Any supported 64bit Microsoft Windows server version, e.g.: • Windows Server 2012 • Windows Server 2012 R2 • Windows Server 2016 • Windows Server 2019 |
| Microsoft SQL Server | Any supported Microsoft SQL Server version, e.g.: • 2012 • 2014 • 2016 • 2017 • 2019 |
| Processor | 2.5Ghz with 4 cores or better |
| Memory | 24GB or more: • 8GB for Windows Server Operating System • 16GB or more dedicated for Microsoft SQL Server |
| Storage | At least 1TB (dependent on department), with separate volumes for: • Windows Server Operating System • SQL Data • SQL Logs • SQL Backups |
| Operating System | Any supported 64bit Microsoft Windows client version, e.g.: • Windows 10 • Windows 11 Any supported 64bit Microsoft Windows server version, e.g.: • Windows Server 2012 • Windows Server 2012 R2 • Windows Server 2016 • Windows Server 2019 |
| .NET Framework | 4.6.2 |
| Processor | 2.5Ghz with 4 cores or better |
| Memory | 16GB |
| Storage | 250GB (100MB free disk space for the Data Companion software installation) |
Yes. The data belongs to the trust. Its your data to do with as you will. There is an EU directive that supports this type of activity: In the EU it is specifically permitted (article 6 EU software convention) to “reverse engineer file formats for the purpose of interoperability”.
No. 99% of the data is open and available to read via network drive shares and is not encrypted (except for user credentials and administrator accessed system features). Some data is compressed but this is via industry standard and non-copyrighted algorithms that have been available and used in in the software industry for over 25 years.
No. The impact to the running of the lab is minimal.
No. Data Companion only reads the data. There is never a time when Data Companion writes any data back to any legacy WP5 LIMS data.
