Dear All
Here at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals we are hoping to purchase a vendor-neutral POCT IT solution very soon - with Conworx or Aegis-POC our most likely product of choice.
Having looked at each of these in reasonable detail I am very comfortable with the ability of both products to handle incoming patient and QC data in an acceptable way.
Where I am much less at ease is the relative analyser configuration capabilities of these products.
I think I have established that to get decent configuration of complex analysers like blood gas analysers we would need to keep the manufacturer's server & software as well as a vendor neutral IT system - tell me if you disagree please.
My main question to the group is this :
For less complex analysers such as blood glucose, blood ketone, urine analysers, Hb analysers etc can I be confident that we can configure these adequately using JUST the Conworx or Aegis-POC systems and thus dispensing completely with analyser manufacturer's server/software ?
I'm particularly interested to hear from POCT group members who have run glucose/ketone/urine analyser types (please specify which) in this way and equally from those who have actually decided to keep the manufacturer's server/software as well because they don't feel Conworx or Aegis-POC can provide adequate configuration.
I'd be immensely grateful for any comments that can help us here.
A very MERRY XMAS and BEST WISHES FOR 2015 to the whole group - I've really enjoyed your high value contributions throughout this year.
Kind Regards
Steve
Steve Hatfield
Innovation Manager
Pathology
Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
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