Point of care blood glucose and blood gas testing at St James Hospital, Dublin is managed centrally through the Roche cobas IT 1000 point of care data management software. This has allowed significant time savings and more efficient workload management, and has helped the hospital to meet accreditation requirements for POC testing. Based in the Biochemistry Department, POC Coordinator at St James, Felicity Dempsey, manages 110 fully connected Accu-Chek Inform II glucose meters and 5 cobas b 221 blood gas analysers located throughout the hospital. “To check on all the POC devices in person would require considerable time and energy,” Felicity comments, “and I’d have to cover a lot of ground since the laboratory is separate from the main hospital. For me, the cobas IT 1000 connectivity is essential, allowing me to manage and monitor the instruments remotely from my desk.”
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