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BD Kiestra™

BD Kiestra™ Lab Automation Solutions meet your needs today and scale with you into the future.

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Workflow where you need it the most

With increasing testing volumes, staff shortages and the need to consolidate testing processes, you may be wondering
how your current laboratory solution is going to deliver results to stay consistent and productive, without compromising quality?

An automated solution that adapts to your laboratory

Automated solutions can help you address your laboratory challenges. Laboratory automation can enhance laboratory operations, maximize financial efficiencies, and advance laboratory outcomes.^1,2

The modular, flexible, and scalable BD Kiestra™ Laboratory Automation Solutions work with your evolving needs, bringing track-connected and standalone automation to your inoculation, incubation, plate reading, and results reporting.

With informatics and Workflow Optimization Services, BD Kiestra™ Solutions can partner with you in designing and delivering customizable, world class laboratory automation solutions tailored to your laboratory's specific needs.

BD Kiestra™ Solutions can help you:

Enhance laboratory operations²

Improve staff efficiency while reducing risk of error, generating accurate results faster and adapting to testing volume growth^1-4
Maximize financial efficiencies¹

Manage labor costs and laboratory expenditures with increased efficiency and reduced errors²
Advance laboratory outcomes^1,2

Improve end-to-end quality and accuracy for more confidence in results reporting^1,4,5

Time to act

73%

BD Kiestra™ InoqulA provides more discrete colonies, reducing the need for subcultures by up to 73%.^1*
14.2%

Deliver a 14.2% reduction in turnaround time.^7**
91%

Increase the number of samples processed by up to 91% without increasing the number of lab technicians.^8*

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Elevate to modular, flexible, and scalable automation with BD Kiestra™ Solutions

Equip your lab to meet current and future needs with the modular, flexible and scalable BD Kiestra™ Lab Automation Solutions.

Tailor automation to your unique needs. Whether you're automating specific steps or the entire process, our solution offers customizable entry points.

Break free from constraints. The BD Kiestra™ TLA seamlessly integrates a suite of automated modules, adapting to your lab's layout and workflow.

Future-proof your investment. As demands grow, simply add modules—no need to replace the entire system. Accommodate changes, expansions, and new requirements with ease.

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Learn more about how BD Kiestra™ Solutions may enhance your laboratory through modular, flexible, and scalable automation.

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The BD Synapsys™ Informatics Solution: helping your lab become Streamlined, Smart, and Scalable

The BD Synapsys™ Informatics Solution is an efficient, streamlined software solution that helps enhance laboratory workflows and empowers data-driven clinical and operational decision making, with flexibility to adapt and scale to changing lab needs.

Helps to enhance laboratory efficiency with a solution that streamlines data management workflow
Smart software tools help your laboratory personnel focus on the most important and impactful data
Configurability adapts BD Synapsys™ Informatics Solution to meet the unique needs of your laboratory
BD Synapsys™ Informatics Solution is designed with data security and privacy controls in mind

Helps to enhance laboratory efficiency with a solution that streamlines data management workflow.

Digital culture reading and analysis: Take advantage of innovative digital microbiology tools that enable new ways of working on cultures in the lab, helping get the most out of your lab automation solution
Workflow organization: Help your lab to flexibly organize worklists to quickly process your most important data management tasks and make the most efficient and streamlined use of available resources.
Anywhere anytime access: Help speed up activities and decision-making throughout your organization, with anywhere, anytime access to data and results.

Smart software tools help your laboratory personnel focus on the most important and impactful data.

Smart digital automation: Supports operational performance through automated data processing using a workflow rules engine
On-demand analytics: Support effective laboratory decision-making by tracking lab operations and diagnostic metrics and presenting them in customizable dashboards
Quality and compliance: Designed to support compliance and lab accreditation data gathering

Configurability allows BD Synapsys™ Informatics Solution to meet the unique needs of your laboratory.

Capacity scaling: Easily add volume capacity to your lab automation or other instrumented solutions, without adding new IT and LIS complexity
Capability scaling: Supports unified workflow management between laboratory automation, blood culture, molecular, and identification instrument platforms from us
Location scaling: Enable the benefits of digital culture processing between remote locations and the central lab with anywhere, anytime access
IT integration: Designed with a focus on ease of integration to help comply with your institution's IT policies and requirements

BD Synapsys™ Informatics Solution is designed with data security and privacy controls in mind.

What we do

BD Synapsys™ Informatics Solution is designed with a focus on data security and privacy, incorporating industry standards in software design
The Solution is developed according to secure coding standards and undergoes independent penetration testing
BD Synapsys™ Informatics Solution implements strong database encryption (AES 256 bit) and encrypted data transfer

How we help you

You control system access for users with flexible role-based access control, that can integrate with your Active Directory
You are supported with extensive logging and traceability of all aspects of system usage
The solution facilitates compliance with your lab's IT policies by supporting installation on customer-provided servers

Why trust us

We make use of independent security and privacy assessments of our products
Independent assessments for UL CAP certification & SOC2 compliance are available on the Cybersecurity Trust Center¹
Transparency is important so we provide a product Security White Paper documenting any known vulnerabilities

Supported by Workflow Optimization Services

Our experts partner with your laboratory by designing, delivering and enhancing your laboratory automation solution, supporting a seamless, integrated microbiology pathway. Our range of tailored training and services includes:

On-site assessment, including workflow and IT analysis
Solution design, including technical assessment and laboratory integration assessment
Solution implementation service, including project management, change management and educational services
Continuous support and improvement with technical services, data analysis and workflow optimization

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On-site evaluation
An immersive, on-site analysis with consultants, known as a “day-in-your-life” evaluation, to understand your lab’s environment and needs to tailor the right solution for you.

Our team studies your processes, schedules and data, focusing on identifying specific opportunities for improvement and barriers to success.

Preliminary configuration
Our experts leverage their knowledge and simulation tools to provide a recommended configuration with actionable insights based on the on-site assessment.

Tailored development

We offer a detailed workflow, data flow and technical lab assessment for a deeper understanding of your lab environment, capturing any current and future needs that could influence the design of the solution, with the goal of ensuring consistent integration and maximum value of your solution.

Based on an assessment of your current data and workflow environment, we provide you instrument sizing and layout scenarios to tailor your solution to your needs and help you visualize your future laboratory, to be defined and validated together.

Solution validation

From our assessment and report out, we work with you to validate your advanced automation solution configuration and plan its integration (including hardware, software and services) to build your finalized solution together.

Project management

We work to ensure timely implementation with our project management experts, who facilitate planning, risk anticipation and management, tapping into internal and external team support (resource management) and communication while ensuring continuous collaboration.

Our project managers support and collaborate with you and your stakeholders to assess, plan and monitor the readiness of your building, your lab, your team and your IT environment while anticipating and mitigating any risks or limitations that may arise.

Our team utilizes a complete, standardized and customizable toolkit, including project charter planning, stakeholder mapping, communication structures, action and issue logs, risk and mitigation logs, project dashboards, technical documents and change management toolkits to support you and your team in your lab transformation.

Solution installation

Orchestrated by our project manager, our team manages the installation and deployment of your solution, including IT configuration, to integrate it into your workflow as quickly and smoothly as possible.

Finally, our customized team of informatics experts will help unlock your lab automation solution’s maximum value through integrated informatics solutions to ready your system for launch.

Solution configuration, education, and validation

Based on our project planning, our team of expert automation application specialists manage the configuration and integration of your lab automation solution into the defined and agreed workflows and solution designs.

Continuous support

Once your solution has been integrated, implemented, and validated, our technical services remain available through direct and remote maintenance and support, to maximize the use of our lab automation solution.

Advanced Professional Services

In addition, we offer flexible, customizable add-on services to support continuous up-skilling in your lab, including training in workflow optimization, lean workflows, and data-driven reporting.

BD Life Sciences Technical Services

BD Service teams enable you to better serve your customers, patients and research partners. You can count on our deep knowledge and experience to help ensure your instruments deliver expected, timely results.

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BD Life Sciences RSS Remote Connectivity

Remote Support Services (RSS) is the BD enterprise-class solution offering remote management and support of BD products deployed at your clinical and research laboratory.

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BD Diagnostic Solutions is Now Waters Advanced Diagnostics

BD Diagnostic Solutions and Biosciences have combined with Waters Corporation to create a life sciences and diagnostics leader driven by innovation and a relentless commitment to our customers.

As we begin our new journey as part of Waters, there will be no immediate changes in how we serve you. The way you order your products and services and how you process payment for them will not change. Your points of contact for sales, customer service, technical service and support or clinical services will remain the same.

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Croxatto A, Dijkstra K, Prod’hom G, Greub G. Comparison of Inoculation with the InoqulA and WASP Automated Systems with Manual Inoculation. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2015;53(7):2298-2307. DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03076-14.
Yue P, Zhou M, Zhang L, et al. Clinical Performance of BD Kiestra™ InoqulA Automated System in a Chinese Tertiary Hospital. Infect Drug Resist. 2020 Apr 1;13:941-947. DOI: 10.2147/IDR.S245173
Graham M, Tilson L, Streitberg R, Hamblin J, Korman TM. Improved standardization and potential for shortened time to results with BD Kiestra™ Total Laboratory Automation of early urine cultures: A prospective comparison with manual processing. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2016 Sep;86(1):1-4. DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2016.06.020.
Iversen et al. Comparative evaluation of inoculation of urine samples with the Copan WASP and BD Kiestra™ InoqulA instruments. J Clin Microbiol. 2016;54(2):328-332. DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01718-15
Ledeboer N et al. The automated clinical microbiology laboratory: fact or fantasy? J Clin Microbiol. 2014;52(9):3140-3146. DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00686-14.
Thomson Rb, McElvania E. Total Laboratory Automation. Clin Lab Med. 2019;39(3):371-389. DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2019.05.002.
Bailey, A. L., & Burnham, C.-A. D. (2019). Reducing the time between inoculation and first-read of urine cultures using total lab automation significantly reduces turn-around-time of positive culture results with minimal loss of first-read sensitivity
Yarbrough, M. L., Lainhart, W., McMullen, A. R., Anderson, N. W., & Burnham, C.-A. D. (2018). Impact of total laboratory automation on workflow and specimen processing time for culture of urine specimens. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 37(12), 2405–2411. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-018-3391-7

Based on studies of urine cultures with selected organisms.

*Depending on the streaking pattern
**Comparison of the BD Kiestra™ InoqulA and the Copan WASP® Automated Systems with manual inoculation

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This business has been acquired by Waters Corporation (“Waters”). For products referenced on this page, the legal manufacturer remains Becton, Dickinson and Company or one of its affiliates or subsidiaries (“BD”) until all required regulatory transfers are completed. During this interim period, BD maintains full responsibility for all regulatory obligations of the legal manufacturer. Product information provided here is supplied under the regulatory authority of BD. To learn more about the relationship between Waters and BD during this transition period, please see our detailed summary waters.com/bdtransaction.