FAQs

‘When will Myla be available?'

Look for Myla™ to be installed into laboratories starting in June 2010. She will be providing these first labs with some solutions around connecting multiple instruments either located in a central lab, or, placed in remotely located labs. You see Myla can be in many places at once.

These first labs have already agreed to "adopt" Myla and she will be refining her skills during the first few months following installation.

Starting at the end of 2010, Myla will be quite experienced and will be well adapted to meet a wide variety of laboratory information management needs.

‘How many languages can Myla speak?'

Myla can easily adapt to labs all around the world. Right from the beginning, she can speak 3 languages. In addition to her native language - French, she also speaks English and Italian.

She can adapt to local environments very quickly. By the end of 2010, Myla will also be speaking German, Portuguese and Spanish. She will also rapidly consider taking onboard other languages depending on the laboratories who need her expertise. Myla is quick to learn.

‘Is Myla taking the place of my Laboratory Information System (LIS)?'

Although Myla has many talents, her specialty is related to managing microbiology data generated from a variety of sources, for example, from instruments, or manually. Myla can easily consolidate data from these different sources and provide a more complete picture of the patient - including all cultures submitted. The goal is to help you to validate each result, more efficiently.

Her reporting capabilities are quite broad - in many cases, much more adapted to the microbiology lab versus the usual LIS. The more you let Myla keep track of your microbiology results, the more she will be able to provide information that will help you better allocate resources and improve result turnaround time.

Myla will not replace your LIS. She is, however, a very efficient middleware application that can fill any information management gaps that currently may exist within your current LIS.

‘It seems like Myla does a lot. In addition to connectivity, workflow management and information management capabilities, what other types of capabilities can be provided?'

Wow!! Great question. Myla is a very efficient middleware application with server core capabilities. With all of the information that she can collect, there are many other potential services that Myla can provide. Not every lab may need these extra services, so this is why Myla has been developed to perform these core activities, but also having the capability to take on a number of special, or optional activities.

A great example is the notification of critical results. On each screen, Myla can indicate when critical results are available. Sometimes, however, technologists may be too busy to see Myla's screens, particularly during the night, when there are only a few people working. As an optional capability, she can actually reach out and let someone in a different location within the hospital know that there is, for example, a positive blood culture detected in a BacT/Alert instrument in the microbiology lab - pretty neat for someone without any arms or legs!!!

bioMérieux has many other optional capabilities in mind for Myla.