Physician Office Glucometer

We use the Nova Statstrip for our hospital inpatient areas and we use the same device for our physician offices. 

Nova StatStrip

Hi Sonya!
We also use the INFORM II and use it 'everywhere' including all 'physician' offices/faculty practices/outpatient/ambulatory settings.
We used to allow in very low volume settings (which includes all of our outpatient practices/ambulatory with exception of endocrinology) the Roche Advantage 'patient meter' (it's been a while...I think I remember the name!) because it accepted the same comfort curves as the INFORM II. Then I'm pretty sure you know it was removed from market, which is why maybe you are looking for alternative?
Decision was made to not allow 'patient meters', not even as a 'backup' in clinics who rarely performed a POC Glucose but wanted it 'for emergencies' (including for guests, family members).
All the outpatient/'physician offices'/faculty practices had to pay up to get data lines and they all have been for years using connected INFORM IIs.

We use the Inform II in all of our clinics as well.  

We use the True Metrix Pro meter.

IN the 5 physician office practices use Bayer Contour Meter- certified for professional use.  Cost prohibitive to place Nova Meters in those locations.  They are essentially there for emergencies and  occasionally patient testing.  They perform QC on days of patient testing and most staff are pretty good at complying.  Manually enter results into EMR.

We use the Nova Statstrip in both our inpatient and satellite clinics.

We are a small clinic with very low volume.  We discovered that Accucheck Inform II's were too robust for our very low volume.  We now use True Metrix PRO.  The only drawback is they don't have a peer group in the CAP WBGQ. The results seem to run a little higher that the hospital glucoses.

For your physician offices do you have to have arm bands or a label to scan

Hi Samatha,
I'm not sure if you mean from an accreditation view or not, but many of us overseeing ambulatory/physician practices/offices do not have arm bands as part of the registration process. Most of us seem to have/use registration 'labels' (generated when the patient checks in at the front desk) with barcodes plus the medical record# and case# are printed on the label. 

If one is using a 'patient use meter' in a non-hospital setting, then it's possible that the meter does not have capacity to input a patient identifier - is the question related to this?

I'm not sure if any patient use meter these days includes a 'counter' of sorts where each test on the meter can be identified by a 'counter' number. Then on a paper log the patient name and identifier# and date can be entered to identify by 'counter' number.
It's been many years since I've worked with a patient care meter in outpatient using a 'counter' number for ID and back then, it was acceptable for our waived testing accreditation to use patient care meters. 

Hi Peggy.
When I was looking online at the Novastat strip it required a barcode for patient ID but it was also showing for hospital use and not physician office. Thanks for responding I think we are just going to stick with using the Hemocue glucose 201.

Samatha, sounds good! It does get kind of complicated with some devices and what can and cannot be 'locked out' using whichever middle ware (eg does the operator have to use a barcode/scan and not do data entry on the patient ID).

We use Inform II for inpatient and physician's office.  The office meters are left "open" for any staff to use, and they use the key code readers to enter new lots.