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Labyrinx LIMSby Only CellsFor universities and colleges
Most biomedical science students first use a laboratory information system in their first job, on real patient samples. Labyrinx LIMS lets them book in, test, verify and report in a safe teaching laboratory first, with fictional patients and nothing at stake.
Demo links are for university and college teaching staff. Students: use the link your tutor gave you.
laboratory disciplines, from haematology and transfusion to cellular pathology
ready-made exercises with planted errors, tutor notes and automatic marking
conditions in the condition bank, from iron deficiency to falciparum malaria
software to install: it runs in a web browser on computers, tablets and phones
The whole journey
Every request follows the path it would take in a hospital laboratory, and the LIMS checks each step the way a real one would.
A clinical user, such as a nursing or medical student, requests bloods and draws the tubes in order.
Find or register the patient, check every tube against the form and print barcoded labels.
Run QC, fetch analyser results, count a film, work a culture, crossmatch, cut up a biopsy.
Flags, delta checks and analyser messages; critical results phoned with read back.
Released, amended with a reason when needed, and read on the ward. Every step is in the audit trail.
What it does
Each university gets its own private laboratory, and each student works on their own patients with the same planted problems, so nobody can copy a neighbour.
Request forms arrive in a tray, just like the real thing. Students search for the patient, check every container and label against the form, and decide what to accept.
Nothing is verified until today’s quality control for that test is accepted. Tutors can plant a QC fault and watch who spots it.
The film bench uses real pictures from the Only Cells Photo Library. Students count 100 white cells, describe the red cells and write a film comment, then check it against the analyser.
Across the laboratory
Group and screen, antibody identification panels, special requirements, crossmatch, blood bank stock and issue by barcode, with emergency issue.
Read the plates, Gram stains, sensitivities with expert rules, and blood cultures.
Specimen tracking from cut-up to sign-out, special stains, controls and the pathologist’s report.
Nursing, medical and physician associate students request bloods, choose the order of draw and read verified results.
Turnaround targets, a busy shift to triage, and a LIMS-down drill with paper forms and back-entry.
Flags, delta checks to investigate, and rules that decide what can go out without a person.
Load a ready-made exercise or plan one from the condition bank. Class results mark every step right, wrong or not done, with a gradebook export for Moodle or Blackboard.
Who it is for
Biomedical science first
Set, run and mark
Your own private lab
Fictional patients only. NHS numbers must be in the 999 test range, and every page says it is a training system.
Tested against WCAG 2.2 AA. Fully usable by keyboard, with hospital-style shortcuts.
Written in British English by a UK biomedical scientist: UK reference ranges, BSH transfusion guidelines and UK SMIs.
Runs in any modern browser, with no IT set-up. Built for whole classes signing in at once.
For teaching staff
Tell us who you are and we will send you a demo link made for your university. Nobody outside your university sees it.
Already have a Labyrinx LIMS? Use your university’s own address, such as onlycells.co.uk/lims/your-university. Lost it? Get in touch.
