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I can’t believe someone asked you that question.
Reasons for keeping a hard/electronic copy are proper documentation and audit. You can then audit various locations and the results, are they using the kit
often enough are the results having an impact.
As usual the result have to be identified as POCT preferentially from the appropriate location….
From: ACB Point-of-Care Testing [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Vaughan Natalie (RC9) Luton & Dunstable Hospital FT
Sent: 27 August 2013 14:53
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Including POCT results in your HIS
Dear All,
I have been making a lot of progress with a project to ensure POCT results from our blood gas analysers and blood glucose meters enter our hospital information system and
have our Director of Information Management & Technology onside. I have now suddenly been asked why these should go into the same system as other pathology results and not 'somewhere else'. And indeed why this should be done at all as the 'whole point of
POCT is that you get a result there and then'. My business case of course addresses a lot of this but I wondered if others who have achieved this could give me some back up!
If you have achieved this could you tell me:
1) Are the results in a HIS alongside other Pathology results, but clearly identified as POCT tests?
2) Any other useful arguments/information you think I might have missed from my business case?
Kind Regards
Natalie
Natalie Vaughan (nee Smith)
Clinical Biochemist & POCT Supervisor
Ext 7969
01582 497969
To contact the POCT team please call:
Ext 7991 or 01582 497991