CEO SUMMARY: Managing point-of-care testing (POCT) at a multi-hospital health system like Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) often means overseeing thousands of nurses and staff members who perform such tests. Lessons learned at JHM in standardizing POCT, training staff, and maintaining quality results were shared at last spring’s Executive War College. POINT-OF-CARE TESTING (POCT) continues to expand. […]
Tactics to Standardize Point-of-Care Testing
At big hospitals and health systems, thousands of operators may be performing point-of-care tests
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXIX, No. 12 - August 29, 2022 Issue
- Tags: Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, ehr, electronic health record, executive war college, glucose monitoring, interfaced devices, interfaced tests, Jeanne Mumford, JHM, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine, lab intelligence, laboratory information system, LIS, middleware, non-interfaced devices, non-interfaced tests, poct, POCT committee, point-of-care coordinator, point-of-care testing, TechTarget
