David G. Rhoads Associates, Inc. is a privately held consulting and software development firm incorporated in 1983. Our headquarters is in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, USA. We develop technical and specialty software for clinical laboratories, primarily software for IBM PC compatibles. Our software manages quality control, method validation, and patient results for thousands of clinical laboratories throughout the world.

Our projects include:

• Consulting on science and technology with clinical laboratories and with companies supporting clinical laboratories.
• Development of Ligand Data Calc (LDC), an immunochemical data reduction program. LDC includes modules for data reduction, quality control, method comparison and instrument interfacing.
• Supporting and programming the Rotochem, one of the first, and in its time, an outstanding centrifugal analyzer. For several years, the vendor referred their customers to us for technical support on this instrument.
• Development of Method Evaluation and Quality Control software.
• Interfacing instruments with each other and with laboratory information systems.
• Development of the single PC patient data management system, ReportMaster in all its variations.
• Design and implementation of data management systems for in-vitro diagnostic manufacturers for use in conjunction with their instrumentation.

Our president,

David G. Rhoads, holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Brandeis University, is Board Certified in Clinical Chemistry (DABCC), and has been a member of the AACC since 1975. In addition, he spent nine years as a hospital-based clinical chemist, and has over 20 years of hands-on software development experience.

Our clients include ...

Abbott Laboratories, Baxter Diagnostics, Coulter Corporation, Eastman Kodak, Diagnostic Products Corp, Ciba Corning Diagnostics, TOSOH Medics Inc, University of Virginia Medical Center, Veterans Administration medical centers, and the Mayo Clinic.