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Said: Hi KristyWe have RALS and Meditech.  We perform test patients on the analyzers making sure the critical values and comments (specific age/sex results have the correct ranges and hard stop comments perform correctly) cross by gr...

Said: Hi Kristy, we also have RALS and Epic. We typically perform a test patient on each type of device we have connected in RALS. We will take screenshots from both RALS and Epic and submit that to our medical director for approval.

Said: Thanks for sharing this information. I am also seeing an increase in the interest of looking at complete cloud-based middleware, (no more on-site servers needed, minimal I.T. support needed, and access to AI tools for results and compli...

Said: We also have RALS and Epic.  When we're just upgrading within the same system (one version of RALS to another) we do screen shots for every test from both RALS and Epic to verify that all results are crossing as expected.  Thi...

Said: Hi Donna,Is it possible that nurses are not warming the heel? If its too cold it may be difficult to get a good drop causing staff to squeeze or "milk" the site and leading to a diluted sample from tissue fluid contamination.We ...