Feed
Every post on the LabFlow blog, newest first.
Follow by RSS
RSS is a plain list of new posts that a feed reader checks for you. Copy the link below into yours, and new posts appear there by themselves.
Atom feed The same posts in Atom.
HL7 v2 vs FHIR R4 for laboratory integration in 2026
Published
A side-by-side comparison of HL7 v2 (the workhorse, still dominant) and FHIR R4 (the modern standard, growing) for lab-EMR integration in 2026 — wire format, message types, transport, tooling, real-world coverage, and the migration trade-offs.
Westgard rules for clinical QC, explained
Published
A working reference to the six base Westgard rules (1-2s, 1-3s, 2-2s, R-4s, 4-1s, 10-x) — what each rule detects, how to combine them into multi-rule sets, why 1-2s is a warning and not a rejection, and how to read a Levey-Jennings chart.
What is a LIMS? A 2026 primer
Published
A clear, definitional primer on Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) — what they do, what they don't, how they differ from LIS and EMR, and what the modern multi-tenant cloud-LIMS landscape looks like in 2026.