Unity QC Software Solutions
Your strategy for smarter QC
Powerful, Real-Time Data Management
With the world’s largest QC peer group, Unity is the industry’s leading software solution specifically designed to optimize QC laboratory practices and streamline workflows. By providing useful information in the form of reports on a system’s reliability in real time, your system will be able to detect and correct problems before they impact patient results. Unity’s robust, desktop- or cloud-based interface and data management tools help improve your lab’s analytical performance and attain a higher level of confidence in your test results. For a fully integrated QC system—from quality control to data analysis—choose Bio-Rad for independent QC.
Largest community of QC users
Bio-Rad’s Unity Interlaboratory Program is the largest community of QC users worldwide offering a powerful tool for evaluating your system’s analytical performance. Unity’s peer group size spans over 38,000 peers across 100+ countries.
Streamlined workflow, optimized performance
Unity’s advanced data management tools can be easily configured to fit your lab’s QC process and goals, helping enable your team to work smarter by minimizing non-value added testing. Advanced reports help elevate your lab’s performance.
Increased confidence, reliable patient results
Unity helps give your lab greater control over your QC practice, reducing risk and improving reliability of patient results. Unity can help establish an efficient plan that enables labs to work proactively, taking corrective action long before patient results are compromised.
World’s Largest Community of QC Users
38K+
Peers
59K+
Instruments Participating
68M+
Data Points Processed Monthly
100+
countries
What Unity Solution Is Right For You?
Bio-Rad offers a variety of options for its leading Unity QC data management tool. Unity comes in basic and advanced versions with best-in-class tools tailored to labs of all levels. For powerful data management designed with labs in mind, explore Bio-Rad’s suite of laboratory QC software.
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Easy-to-use peer comparison tool designed for instant access to peer reports and labs that do not require daily QC. |
Entry-level QC data management solution designed for labs looking to conduct peer comparisons with additional daily QC functionalities. |
Expert-level QC data management solutions suitable for labs performing advanced daily QC processes and peer comparisons. |
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*Supplemental features that further enhance regulatory compliance and ease-of-use for various laboratory roles and responsibilities. Additional fees apply.
Data transfer & Connectivity Solutions
Bio-Rad offers several connectivity solutions to capture and process QC data directly from laboratory devices or information systems allowing labs to easily and automatically collate QC results, eliminate manual data entry, and efficiently troubleshoot QC errors. These data transfer solutions seamlessly connect a wide range of instruments and platforms to Bio-Rad’s Unity software, helping unlock the power of quality in your lab.
Data Management Products
Unity Next Peer QC
Unity Next Peer QC is a simple peer comparison tool that empowers labs to meet compliance with instant access to peer reporting in a centralized, user-friendly platform.
Unity Interlaboratory Program
The Unity Interlaboratory Program provides reports on the reliability and precision of test systems and helps improve laboratory analytical performance — over 38,000 peers with data generated from more than 53,000 instruments in over 100 countries.
Unity Real Time
A QC data management tool for compliance, participation in the Unity Interlaboratory Program, and statistical process control with audit trails.
Unity Real Time LT
An entry level QC desktop data management tool that provides basic QC rules, charts and reports, enables participation in the monthly Unity Interlaboratory Program, and is upgradable to Unity Real Time.
Unity Real Time Online
A web service-based QC data management tool for compliance, participation in the Unity Interlaboratory Program, and statistical process control with audit trails.
UnityWeb
An entry-level QC web service-based data management tool that provides basic QC rules, charts, and reports, enables participation in the monthly Unity Interlaboratory Program, and is upgradable to Unity Real Time online.
Unity Alert
Automatic QC status notification tool to help monitor instrument performance.
Westgard Advisor
Automatic QC rules selection engine to improve laboratory test quality.
Connectivity Solutions
Connectivity solutions that allow QC data from LIS systems, miåddleware and/or instruments to be quickly and easily imported into Unity software enabling Interlaboratory program comparison.
Customer Testimonials
"The documentation of Bio-Rad controls using the Unity QC program has been well accepted by CAP inspectors. Worry-free QC."
Laboratory Professional
USA
“Bio-Rad is the best way to monitor my QC along with peers. Unity Real Time is a huge help.”
Laboratory Professional
USA
“The reports are clean and easy to read and understand. For each test, Unity reports for our lab show a summary of our data, our instrument group, and our method group—reports are simple.”
Clinical Chemist
Hospital Laboratory
Resources
Unity Real Time training
Our Bio-Rad Unity Real Time training videos provide an introduction to the system, then elaborate on setup, data entry, data evaluation, peer group comparison, and measurement uncertainty reporting.
Unity Next Peer QC
Explore Unity Next Peer QC: A peer comparison tool with instant access to peer reporting.
UnityConnect 2.0 related training
Our Bio-Rad UnityConnect 2.0 related training videos include videos for UnityConnect 2.0 training and UnityConnect training for Unity Real Time.