Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is a computer information system that manages laboratory information for all the laboratory disciplines such as clinical chemistry, haematology and microbiology.

Laboratory Information Systems provide modules for sending laboratory tests order to the instruments through its multiple instrument interfaces, some are known as to have as many as five hundred, track those orders and then capturing the results as soon as they become available. The result can then be analysed and a report the generated from it.

This report can be sent off for printing at a specific point, sent off to other systems either to be added to patient’s electronic medical record or for billing.