ASTM — LISBridge Blog
Articles tagged “ASTM” — practical guides and best practices for laboratory integration.

Clinical Lab Informatics: A Career Guide for Lab Professionals
A clinical lab informatics career guide for lab professionals: what the field covers, skills that transfer from the bench, protocols to learn first and career paths.

CXL PRO LIS Integration: HL7 and ASTM Bidirectional Ordering
CXL PRO LIS integration: one auto-chemistry analyzer, two dialects. HL7 v2.3.1 over MLLP and classic ASTM, with host-query ordering in both.

When Your Analyzer Speaks Neither HL7 Nor ASTM
Analyzer proprietary protocol LIS integration explained: fixed-width records, vendor framing on top of HL7, and XML on a file server. What to ask your middleware vendor.

Bidirectional Lab Orders: How LISBridge Sends Tests to Analyzers
A bidirectional lab order interface sends tests to the analyzer, not just results back. How order dispatch, host query, and retry work across 16 supported instruments.

Bidirectional Lab Middleware: Why One-Way Data Transfer Isn't Enough
Bidirectional HL7 lab middleware sends orders to analyzers and receives results back. Why one-way data transfer leaves half your lab workflow manual.