POC Device settings.
Hemochron
Rapidpoint
As part of my POC audit I review the setup of the Hemochrons in our CATHLAB and Perfusion department. The main reason that I added this to my audit is that each department has the configuration software and will change the device setup to their liking.
How do you handle device settings?
I have also been instructed to remove the expiration date for competency for this device in QML and remove all settings for Sample ID, Operator and QC so there will be no hard stops.
The Rapidpoints are under the lab and considered apart of Point of care. I recently discover regulatory issues in these departments and requested access to their anaylzers and rapidcomm to assure AMR ranges were accurate.
How do govern the Rapidpoints? Do you just tell the Operators/managers and allow them to make corrects, monitor and document CAP compliance without verification?
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Hi Sylvia. We have both instruments at our facility and we, POC, handle all the hemochron instrument configurations on our laptop. Our departments don't have any access to configuration manager.
We also handle our Rapid Points. Respiratory and Perfusion don't have access to them either. We monitor them daily and let the departments know when their reagents need to be changed or we change them if the department is busy.
Hope this is helpful!