Improving Point of Care Testing

With CLINITEK Status Connect System

Point of care testing for urine used to be manual for both pregnancy test and urine dipstick.The manual process took long for women to have a Urine pregnancy test done and be able to receive medications . The risk for error when interpreting both the pregnancy test and the urine dipstick were high. Especially with the dipstick, some providers had a hard time interpreting the results correctly , some did not know the order in which results are read and not all the time were results  input into the computer in a timely manner. Sadly in some cases it took hours.In some cases young women were triage to our urgent care area of the emergency room and only to find out that they are pregnant and therefore would need to be moved to GYN so that they can receive appropriate care.Many times we ended up with a very upset patient or family who spent too much timed waiting to receive care because of the delays in this process.

So after taking in to consideration all the complaints from patients and their families, my institution decided to invest in the CLINITEK Status Connect System. With this technology urine samples are tested for urinalysis/dipstick and pregnancy test within five minutes and the results are transferred direct into patient's chart because clinitek is Epic friendly. All youneed is your patient's ID and the testing kit.The bar code scanner scans dipstick bar code and the pregnancy test cassette. 

Here is how all you need to know about this Clinitek

CLINITEK Status Connect System is wireless  and has wired connectivity and testing oversight in point-of care urinalysis for improved risk management. It;

• Offers flexible connectivity solutions by integrating data directly to the LIS, EMR or via point-of-care data management software solutions
• Provides improved POC testing workflow efficiencies when interfaced to leading data management solutions
• Improved barcode response time allows quick entry of lot and expiration data with a single scan.
• Improves risk management through advanced operator control functions, prevents unauthorized use
• Drives compliance across testing sites with programmable QC protocols and QC lockout
• Has auto-checks which help to ensure the quality and accuracy of data while facilitating an enhanced interpretation of results