Northern Irish laboratory information system (LIS) vendor Cirdan has won a contract to provide its Ultra system for Victoria's Northern Health, which plans to bring its pathology service back in-house after some years of outsourcing to Healthscope.

Cirdan acquired the Ultra system, which was originally developed in Australia in the 1980s by Triple G, from GE Healthcare in 2013 when it bought GE's Centricity lab division.