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Diagnostic Lab Software Development for Regulated Laboratories

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LIMS / LIS integrationCLIA / CAP environmentEmbedded engineers
Clinical genomics laboratory

The problem

When Diagnostic Lab Workflows Outgrow the Systems Behind Them

Test volumes, assay complexity, integration requirements, and reporting expectations often grow faster than a laboratory's underlying technology stack. This is where laboratory workflow automation, LIMS modernization, data integration, and reporting operations begin to break down, and where NonStop helps teams regain control.

Legacy LIMS and lab platforms that cannot scale

A system designed around earlier test volumes, a limited menu, or a small number of integrations can become a bottleneck as the lab grows. New assay types require custom work and legacy dependencies slow release cycles.

Disconnected LIS, LIMS, EHR, and billing systems

Orders, results, patient information, claims, and workflow status often move through manual exports, spreadsheets, email, or brittle interfaces. Every handoff creates risk.

Manual and inconsistent clinical reporting

When report templates, clinical content, approvals, and amendments are managed across shared documents, teams struggle to keep formatting, version history, and approvals controlled.

Quality-system and audit preparation handled reactively

When access control, traceability, documentation, and validation evidence are added late, inspection readiness becomes a recurring fire drill.

What we build for diagnostic and clinical laboratories

Engineering for the Full Diagnostic-Lab Operating System

NonStop builds production-grade lab platforms, integration layers, workflow systems, reporting capabilities, data infrastructure, and controlled AI applications for diagnostic and clinical laboratories. We work across the systems that move a test from order to result, not as disconnected projects, but as one operational environment.

Legacy LIMS and Lab Platform Modernization

Modernize aging LIMS and laboratory platforms through modular architecture, cloud-native re-architecture, API enablement, phased migration, and staged release strategies designed to minimize operational disruption.

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LIS and LIMS Integration Services

Connect LIS, LIMS, EHR, billing, portal, instrument, workflow, and reporting systems through validated data exchange, interface monitoring, exception handling, and reconciliation, using HL7 v2, FHIR R4, APIs, and integration-engine patterns.

Integrate your LIS and LIMS →

Order-to-Report Workflow Automation

Design connected workflows across requisition intake, order validation, accessioning, laboratory operations, interpretation support, report preparation, delivery, and operational follow-up.

Improve your order-to-report workflow →

Controlled AI Automation for Labs

Apply AI where it can reduce operational friction: requisition extraction, document classification, work-queue triage, exception handling, and operational analytics, with qualified human review, traceability, and monitoring.

Explore controlled AI for lab workflows →

Clinical Reporting Software

Build clinical and laboratory reporting systems with structured templates, controlled content updates, version history, review and approval workflows, amendment handling, and auditable report records.

Build a controlled clinical reporting workflow →

Lab Portal Development

Develop physician ordering portals, provider-result portals, and patient-result experiences that make it easier to submit orders, access status, receive results, and communicate securely.

Build a connected lab portal →

Data Engineering for Diagnostic Labs

Create data pipelines, governed operational data layers, analytics infrastructure, and reporting systems that connect LIS, LIMS, instrument, workflow, and result data.

Build your laboratory data foundation →

Custom LIMS Development

Build a laboratory information management system from the ground up for labs with no usable LIMS today, or whose workflow does not fit any commercial product: accessioning, workflow configuration, EHR and billing integration, and a CLIA/CAP-ready audit trail.

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Custom Software Development for Diagnostic Labs

Build the internal tools, scheduling systems, QC dashboards, and other purpose-built software that does not fall under a LIMS, a clinical reporting system, or a portal, engineered for the same CLIA/CAP environment.

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Discuss your diagnostic lab modernization priorities

Proven in production for complex testing workflows

Production Systems for the Complex Work Behind a Result

For molecular and genetic testing workflows, NonStop's capabilities are represented by named production solutions that support requisition intake, order validation, pipeline operations, evidence and interpretation workflows, reporting, and auditability.

SmartReq

A requisition-intake capability designed to extract printed text, handwriting, and checked-box information from referring-provider documentation while keeping sensitive patient data within the approved operating environment.

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Intergenix

An order-validation layer that supports workflow checks to prevent incomplete, duplicate or inconsistent orders from proceeding downstream. It is designed for connected order-management and integration environments.

Read more → about Intergenix

StrixFlow

A workflow-observability capability for monitoring pipeline execution, operational status, and per-sample cost visibility across supported workflow technologies, including Nextflow DSL2, Snakemake, WDL, and CWL.

Read more → about StrixFlow

Varion

A variant evidence and interpretation workflow capability designed to support ACMG/AMP-aligned review processes, structured variant data, audit trails, and qualified human review before report release.

Read more → about Varion

GENVAR

A variant knowledge-base capability with structured variant representation and AI-assisted knowledge retrieval designed to help teams access, search, and work with their interpretation history and evidence workflows.

Read more → about GENVAR

ReportStudio

A clinical reporting capability with configurable templates, report-generation workflows, version history, and auditable report records designed to support controlled result-generation and release processes.

Read more → about ReportStudio

For laboratories whose primary business is molecular or genetic testing, NonStop's Genomics practice offers deeper, specialist coverage: bioinformatics pipelines, clinical genomics platforms, variant-evidence workflows, genomic reporting, and genomic data infrastructure. For needs outside these six components, NonStop's broader digital product development practice designs and builds the system from the ground up.

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Who we build for

Engineering for Complex Diagnostic-Lab Environments

NonStop's strongest public proof is in molecular diagnostics and genetic testing workflows. The same engineering capabilities can be applied to other complex diagnostic lab environments where workflow, integration, reporting, data, governance and scalability needs are comparable.

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Molecular diagnostics and genetic-testing laboratories

NonStop's deepest documented experience across order-to-report workflow, platform modernization, bioinformatics, reporting, integration, and data systems.

02

Clinical chemistry, toxicology, pathology, and specialty laboratories

Potential fit where the lab needs stronger workflow automation, controlled reporting, system integration, auditability, and scalable operating infrastructure.

03

Reference laboratories and multi-site laboratory networks

Potential fit for organizations addressing cross-location data consistency, workflow standardization, integration complexity, reporting operations, and platform scalability.

04

Precision-testing and laboratory-innovation teams

Teams building differentiated testing services that require custom digital products, provider experiences, connected data, and more adaptable operational systems.

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Why NonStop

Why Regulated U.S. Labs Choose an Embedded Engineering Partner

A packaged LIMS can be the right answer for standardized requirements. But when a laboratory must connect systems, modernize an aging platform, support differentiated workflows, or manage complex reporting, it often needs more than a fixed feature set. NonStop works alongside laboratory, product, IT, bioinformatics, quality, and operational teams to decide whether to build, extend, integrate, modernize, or selectively replace.

Validation support built around your quality system

We help teams define risk-appropriate requirements, testing, documentation, release controls, and validation evidence for changes to live workflows.

Phased modernization designed to reduce disruption

Parallel operation, reconciliation, staged release, and rollback planning can be applied where the laboratory environment supports them.

Laboratory accountability stays with the laboratory

NonStop provides engineering; the certificate-holding laboratory remains responsible for its CLIA obligations, CAP requirements, quality system, clinical review, and report approval.

Auditability designed into workflows

Role-based access, workflow traceability, change history, version control, documentation, and operational monitoring are designed into the architecture.

Embedded through delivery

NonStop engineers work with your team through architecture, implementation, testing, production launch, and operational handoff.

Engineering across the full system

Platform, integration, data, bioinformatics, quality, cloud, and applied-AI capabilities work together rather than as disconnected vendors.

Case Studies

Platform modernization

A Genetic Testing Lab Modernized Its Core Platform Without Stopping Operations

NonStop rebuilt a genetic testing lab’s order, reporting, and billing platform off a decade-old monolith, one surface at a time, while the lab kept processing clinical orders. No downtime, no big-bang cutover.

20msOrder search across 70,000 records went from seconds to about 20 milliseconds
Weeks → DaysNew hospital onboarding dropped from weeks to days
2× fasterFeature delivery speed roughly doubled, with zero disruption
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AI intake

AI-Powered Intake That Reads Every Requisition Form

NonStop built an on-premise AI extraction system that reads each requisition form, identifies the provider template, extracts every field, and validates it against the lab schema before anything reaches the LIS.

Every → ExceptionsManual touch dropped from every form to exceptions only
20+ templatesHandled automatically, a new provider is a template, not a retraining cycle
HIPAA cleanPatient data never leaves the lab, processed on-premise
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Reporting platform

A Reporting Platform That Put Lab Teams Back in Control

NonStop replaced a hardcoded, developer-dependent reporting system with a role-separated report builder, template versioning, and an automated sign-off engine.

3–4 mo → 1–2 wksNew report types, owned by the lab team
Sprints → HoursRoutine reporting changes moved from engineering sprints to hours
Full historyTemplate version history gives clean rollback for CAP, CLIA, and ISO 15189 audits
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Talk to Engineers Who Know Your Domain

Start with the Workflow That Is Holding Your Lab Back

A diagnostic-lab architecture review is a working session, not a generic sales demonstration. Bring the platform, workflow, integration, reporting, data, or automation problem you are trying to solve. NonStop will help you identify the most practical next step: extend, integrate, modernize, replace, or build.

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