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Winston Brasor | Jan 8, 2018 1:12:42 PM

Ovation.io, Inc. today announced the close of an expanded $1.85M round of financing, initially led by StageDotO and Longfellow Ventures, as well as the completion of a partnership with The Hunt Group, a respected provider of health information services. Ovation continues to evolve beyond a laboratory information management system (LIMS) to a full commercialization ecosystem that provides diagnostic labs with sample tracking, billing and reimbursement, reporting, document management, training management, client management, laboratory consulting services and business analytics. The company also announced that John Walker, Head of Core Data and Analytics, NIBR Informatics, Novartis, has joined its board of directors and that they have expanded their advisory panel to include Chad Robins, Rich Miller, and Vinay Gidwaney.

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Winston Brasor | Dec 21, 2017 1:07:15 PM

Ovation.io, Inc., makers of the fastest-growing clinical laboratory information and commercialization platform, and Coriell Life Sciences, Inc., an innovative provider of clinical genetic reporting solutions, announced today a partnership and platform integration designed to create a seamless ecosystem for sample and workflow management, genetic data interpretation, and external client communication.

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Adam Hasler | May 24, 2017 4:07:40 PM
Today Ovation.io, the parent company behind Ovation Service Lab and Ovation Research, announced a US$1.5 million investment led by StageDotO and including existing investors. The funding will help Ovation.io to build on the success of both its products in supporting the work of the most forward-thinking biomedical labs, companies, and consortia in both clinical and pre-clinical scientific research. The recent announcement highlights the work of one Ovation Research customer, the iGeneTrain consortium based at the University of Pennsylvania, which relies on global collaboration around shared data and analyses in an effort to improve the understanding of organ transplant outcomes. Get in touch with Ovation.io to learn more about the problems that it solves every day for scientific researchers throughout the world.
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Winston Brasor | Oct 11, 2016 12:14:27 PM

Service labs and R&D groups are harnessing the power of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) throughout the clinical continuum and using this technology to reach new heights in biological understanding and clinical decision support.

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Adam Hasler | May 4, 2016 11:39:28 AM

The movement to share data and research openly and freely for the sake of scientific advancement has been around for a while, with strong advocates and adherents that we count as some of our favorite people. Nonetheless, a huge driver in the rise in concern for data sharing and rigorous data management has come from the need to comply with data sharing requirements not only from the journals where the researcher will publish his or her paper, but from grant giving organizations themselves. We wondered what drove those increased requirements, and while we often talk to scientific researchers about their needs and frustrations, we were curious about the perspective of grant giving organizations themselves. So we got in touch with two of the biggest funders in the life sciences in the U.S., the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to learn more about what they actually required and why they required it.

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Adam Hasler | Apr 27, 2016 5:36:11 PM

The following is an interview conducted with Barry Wark, the co-founder and CEO of Ovation

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Adam Hasler | Mar 28, 2016 11:30:37 AM

The concept of data provenance in scientific research has grown in prevalence since the early 2000’s.

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Adam Hasler | Mar 3, 2016 3:05:12 PM

 

At Ovation, data management for researchers in the life sciences is our passion, and breaking down barriers to communicating great science and facilitating greater scientific collaboration is our obsession.

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Adam Hasler | Mar 3, 2016 1:58:06 PM

Doug Rains is the Chief Scientific Officer and Lab Manager of Quantigen Genomic Services in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Adam Hasler | Feb 22, 2016 2:13:23 PM

Lab work can be a challenge. Compliance issues, training, and quality control measures, not to mention day-to-day hassles like tracking samples and incomplete assays, can overwhelm anybody, from the lab technician up through the lab’s management. Where does lab software fit in all of this? A necessary evil? A tool that makes life better, easier, more efficient? Or somewhere in between? As far as we can tell, lab software seems pretty broken, and it amazes us that in this era of agile software development and user-centered design, labs still have to deal with applications that look and feel like 1999, or require a whole team to manage. We’ve been doing some digging, interviewing experts and folks with years of experience in the lab, and uncovered a few primary ways in which lab software underserves the people who use it.

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Adam Hasler | Feb 19, 2016 3:06:42 PM

In recent years, companies across industries, and of all sizes, have embraced analytics and real-time data as essential to understanding and growing their business. Clinical labs have joined the movement as well. A variety of business intelligence software that connects with existing LIS has come on the market and, for lab managers, it’s no longer enough to think about only QA and audits. Lab managers must now think about growing the lab’s business as a whole, finding new efficiencies in lab workflows, informing partners or sales reps in real time, and reducing costly errors. Like many small businesses, small or startup labs view business analytics as the domain of the “big guys”, for those with resources that far exceed their own. However, it is even more incumbent upon small labs to take a hard look at their lab’s performance in near real time—less wiggle room in the budget means every mistake and inefficiency matters even more. What are some easy steps that labs without expensive business intelligence software can take to optimize their business, make more money, and perform better on important metrics, like turn around time?

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Adam Hasler | Feb 16, 2016 4:40:23 PM

At its core, Ovation is a tool for researchers to manage their data, collaborate with other researchers, and ensure that valuable metadata and relationships between data are conserved. 

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Adam Hasler | Feb 16, 2016 4:39:59 PM

When we first got started with Ovation, we set out to better understand the problems of those on the front-lines of science, from the researchers to lab technicians.

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Adam Hasler | Feb 16, 2016 4:39:28 PM

Science answers questions by collecting data and telling the story of its evolution from hypothesis to conclusion.

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