"Surviving a Point of Care Inspection
and Best Practices for your Program" Webcast 
and POC Updates

March 16, 2004 

Meeting Minutes

A Spring Snowstorm might have kept the attendance down but didn't dampen the spirits of the more than 30 people that attended the recent Ohio POC Network Meeting

Welcome and overview of the day’s events

• Lois Clark, Roche Diagnostics

i-Stat Update   - Abbott & i-Stat Corporation

• “The Power of the Platform”; Data Management; Product Demo and questions

• George Mangus and Stacy Bartlett, Abbott Laboratories

“Key Points to POCT” CAP audiotape- Dr. William Clark, John Hopkins

• Advantages and disadvantages of the POCT program

• Implementing a POCT program; Billing and payment of POCT

• Pat Kraft, Good Samaritan Hospital, Dayton OH

“Cardiac Diagnostics of the ED patient”

• Current markers ; Recommendations and guidelines

• David Plaut, Dade Behring 

• Click here to view David's presentation

Discussion and Planning of upcoming Ohio POC Network Meeting

• September 8, 2004

• Possible location, Wright State University

• Sponsored by HemoCue

• Topics: POCT hematology, POCT user’s viewpoint (nurses, perfusionists)

• Pat Kraft, Good Samaritan Hospital

Issues, Concerns

• JCAHO survey at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton went well

• Tracer method will be used in future surveys

• Surveyors talked to users a lot about QC, their test menus, who trains them and how often   

• CAP inspection at the Health Alliance in Cincinnati

• Recommendations were made concerning connectivity, manual test

• Result recording, and undated reagents

• Future meetings?

  • Possibly November 17^th to coincide with CAP WebCast

  • LifeScan ½ day presentation on the Portland Protocol

Thoughts on Hemoprompt cards sent out by vendor

• Health Alliance felt they would not be using them due to the large volume of product that would have to be changed out and did not feel there was enough literature reviews available on the product

Interactive WebCast “Surviving a Point of Care Inspection and Best Practices” Roche Diagnostics, CAP Today

• Update on the Regulations CLIA, CAP, JCAHO, and COLA;

• Ronald H. Laessig, PhD  University of Wisconson- Madison

• Quality Systems Approach now groups together quality assurance and quality assessment

• Equivalent quality control options

• Interpretive guidelines are written to be used by inspectors, lab

• Directors and POCT coordinators  

• Click here to view Dr. Laessig's presentation

Best Practices for Ensuring Quality and Meeting Requirements, A Laboratory

Perspective Frederick Kiechle, MD, PhD  William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oaks, MI   

• Connectivity

• Quality management programs

• CAP questions

• Future of POCT  

• Click here for Dr. Kiechle's presentation

• Online evaluation and continuation education available at the AACC website

• Link to the presentation available at http://rocheforum.webex.com

  • Click on Surviving a Point of Care Inspection

  • Password is pointofcare                   

Closing Remarks 

Cynthia Griffith, Middletown Regional Hospital

Thanks to our sponsors: Dade Behring, i-Stat, and Roche  

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