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Lila Stevens posted a reply on Re: How many full-time employees does your POCT...

Monday, Dec 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM

Said: How many Point of Care FTEs do you maintain (total) for the system?How many beds does your health care system have?Does your Point of Care team also assist with management of point of care testing within Medical Gro...

Lila Stevens posted a new Topic

Monday, Dec 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM

How many full-time employees does your POCT department staff?

I am reaching out to see if anyone would be willing to share staffing information for their Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) department.

For context, our current health system includes three freestanding hospitals (1. 321 beds, 2. 906 beds, 3. 110 beds), one free standing emergency department, and approximately 90 outpatient locations. We are reviewing our current structure and would appreciate any insight into staffing models, FTE allocations, or coverage strategies that hav...

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Ashley Albers posted a new Topic

Wednesday, Dec 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM

Hemachron 100 vs. iSTAT and HMS

Hello. We are looking at bringing in the Hemachron 100 and are looking for some pros and cons on the device. We currently utilize the iSTAT ACTk and HMS. Anyone else transition from iSTAT and HMS to Hemochron? How do you feel results compare? In your experience, does it seem to be more accurate than the other devices or less accurate? We have noticed with our iSTAT and HMS, we have an incredibly hard time getting them to correlate at high concentrations of Heparin. Anything you can share...

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Angie Yost posted a reply on Re: AMR verification of hemoglobin derivatives

Wednesday, Dec 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM

Said: Hello again! I actually still think we might be on the hook for AMR verification. At my facility, calibration verification and AMR verification are separate evaluations (though they often use the same data). For the ca...

James Beck posted a reply on Re: AMR verification of hemoglobin derivatives

Tuesday, Dec 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM

Said: Angie - I think we stand corrected - apparently GEM5000 are a different animal and per the vendor, they do NOT require external Cal Ver - see explanation below:"The nice thing about the GEM Premier systems is that every time a G...