| Meeting hosts
for the October 8th meeting included Dawn Hansen and Roberta Lijewski, (left) members of
Baltimore-Chesapeake Bay Point
of Care Coordinators.
Dawn and Roberta greeted more than 100 people turned out for a full day
of discussion on point-of-care informatics as well as a vendor fair at the
meeting held at the Mt.
Washington Conference Center in Baltimore. |
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Opening
Remarks
Dr. William
Clarke, Director of Point-of-Care Testing, Johns Hopkins
Hospital Chair-Elect of Capital Section, AACC opened the meeting, and
thanked the Baltimore-Chesapeake Bay Point-of-Care Coordinators
and
The Capital Section The Critical and Point of Care Testing Division American Association of Clinical
Chemistry for their efforts in putting the meeting together and
their sponsorship.. |
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| The
Use of Technology in Education
Debra Case-Cromer, RN, MS, Coordinator for Education, Department of Nursing,
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, opened the meeting with Use
of Technology in Education (3.76MB). She was supported by An Introduction to
HealthStream Learning. |
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The
History of POC Informatics
Steven Valorz
from Medical Automation Systems
then spoke on the Past, Present and Future of POC
Informatics (3.19MB) followed by technical presentations from HemoCue
and Telcor.
A spectacular buffet lunch closed out the morning session. |
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| Improving
Regulatory Compliance with Informatics
Chris Fetters from NOVA Biomedical began
the afternoon session with a presentation on Improving
Regulatory Compliance with Informatics.
Chris was
followed by technical presentations from Abbott Point of Care and Roche
Diagnostics. |
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Using
Data to Reduce Errors
James H. Nichols, Ph.D.,
DABCC, FACB
Director, Clinical Chemistry, Baystate Medical Center
closed out the day with Informatics: Using Data to Reduce Errors,
Standardize Practice and Improve
Patient Outcomes (2.09MB). |
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| If
you would like to view any of the presentations made at this
meeting, click on the appropriate hyperlink. If you want to
download the presentation, right click on the hyperlink and then
left click on "Save target as..." You can
navigate to a spot on your hard drive to save the presentation. |
| Vendor
Fair |
| In
addition to the presentations mentioned above, another of the days
highlights was a products fair that saw 20 point-of-care vendors
display their devices and technologies. |
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| Abbott
Reps Jill Sohan and Natacha Nicholas with participants |
Bayer
Representative Beate Broderick with conference participants |
Dade
Representatives Ruth Cantu and Michael Neu with participants |
Lifescan
Reps Dawn Cowhey and Lisa Durrish with Becky Clarke (Telcor)
and participant |
