Victoria’s Eastern Health has selected Magentus’s Conductor interoperability platform to connect systems across its pathology service and give its pathology team greater control over integrations.
Conductor is set to act as an interoperability hub connecting Eastern Health’s existing Evolution vLab laboratory information management system (LIMS) with pathology analysers and referral channels including HealthLink and Medical Objects.
The project aims to allow Eastern Health to add and change integrations without replacing its core laboratory system, while bringing more integration management and data transformation capability into its pathology technical team.
Eastern Health processes more than 660,000 pathology episodes annually, while Evolution vLab is used by pathology providers across Australia and supports almost 16 million diagnostic episodes each year.
The Conductor implementation will extend connectivity from the LIMS across the broader pathology ecosystem, including laboratory analysers and external referral channels HealthLink and Medical Objects.
It will automate the receipt, transformation, validation and routing of pathology data between systems, with Eastern Health expecting this to reduce manual handling and transcription risks.
The health service also plans to bring routine integration changes in-house, reducing its reliance on external development support while allowing its pathology technical team to work with ICT on more complex integration requirements.
Eastern Health program director for pathology Joanne Wiid said the health service wanted an approach that could support changes to its laboratory environment over time.
“Modern pathology services depend on reliable information moving seamlessly between systems,” Ms Wiid said.
“As our laboratory environment continues to evolve, we wanted an approach that not only improved interoperability today but also gave our team the capability to manage and adapt integrations over time.
“Conductor helps us take greater ownership of our integration environment while delivering a pathology service that is more connected, responsive and adaptable to the needs of clinicians, laboratory staff and patients.”
The implementation also reflects Magentus’s broader strategy of adding interoperability and workflow capabilities around existing laboratory systems rather than requiring wholesale LIMS replacement. Magentus acquired Labflow in 2025, bringing its modular pathology products alongside Evolution vLab.
Magentus managing director clinical diagnostics APAC Dan Burke said healthcare organisations should be able to modernise interoperability while retaining existing technology investments.
“Eastern Health is taking a forward-looking approach by building the internal capability to manage and evolve its pathology environment over time,” Mr Burke said.
“Conductor provides the interoperability foundation to support that strategy, helping teams respond faster to changing requirements while maximising the value of the systems already in place.”
Labflow CEO Ben Richardson said laboratories increasingly needed integration environments capable of adapting as technologies and workflows changed.
“The challenge isn’t simply connecting those systems once. It’s creating an integration environment that can adapt as requirements change,” Mr Richardson said.
“Conductor was designed to give pathology providers greater visibility, flexibility and control over how information moves between systems, helping them build a connected laboratory ecosystem that can evolve over time.”
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