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Impact of Point-of-Care Technologies on Healthcare
by Impelsys Admin | Apr 25, 2019
Point-of-Care Technologies is a set of technologies used at the location of patient care helping improve healthcare outcomes.
Blood glucose monitors, urine dipsticks, pregnancy tests, rapid strep tests, rapid HIV tests, hemoglobin level tests are common
examples of PoCT. In the past few years PoCT have advanced and the field is showing strong growth, as evidenced by new clinical or
consumer products research and development directions. The widespread use of this set of technologies is driven by healthcare
emphasis shifting towards greater healthcare awareness, precision treatment, optimization of patient management process, and
chronic disease management − combined with advances in electronic devices and information technology.
Point-of-care technologies add to the effectiveness and efficiency in healthcare delivery. PoC devices provide critical
information to clinicians assisting in the management of patient care. Point-of-care technology enables diagnosis at home, in the
hospital, in an ambulance, or in the field; it effectively delivers high quality of life care at the patient’s bedside, or in the corner of a
consulting room, doing away with procedures that require an entire laboratory and long hours to arrive at a proper diagnosis.
Point-of-Care procedures involve faster and leaner processes as testing is done on bedside and fewer steps are necessary to
produce the result.
These are some of the advantages of PoCT:
− They eliminate the need for processing and aliquoting, transporting the specimen to the laboratory, and communicating
results back to the clinical staff.
− Faster access to test results allows for rapid clinical decision making, enabling more appropriate treatments and
interventions.
− They require smaller sample volumes than those needed for traditional laboratory testing.
− They can also help reduce the frequency of testing errors like inappropriate sampling errors, errors during preparation or
packaging of samples, and patient misidentification.
− The fact that PoCT is often performed by the individual providing care to the patient may help decrease post analytical
errors due to incorrect transmission of test results.
(Adapted from: www.impelsys.com)
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