Today’s health care systems rely heavily on automation. The ability to quickly and accurately transmit and manage patient information, including point of care testing results, is crucial to the success of many hospital functions, especially as more testing continues to move outside of the lab. Implementing a point of care integration and management strategy, such as TELCOR’s, can effectively eliminate errors, omissions and delays that are associated with manual charting. It also allows for future growth of your point of care program.
Improving Patient Care & Operational Management
Point of Care Testing (POCT) is one of the fastest-growing segments of the diagnostics industry. POCT provides operational benefits that include more rapid decision making, reducing operating times that can, in turn, reduce the length of stay or number of visits, and ensuring optimal use of professional time.
Point of Care Testing can reduce operating times, reduce hospital stays and ensure optimal use of professional time. TELCOR’s QML software makes sure these important results are entered in a patient’s electronic medical record, which can help reduce duplicate testing, among other benefits.
However, these results often are not included in the patient’s electronic medical record, which can lead to possible duplicate testing. They also may not be captured for compliance or accounting purposes. With a middleware solution like TELCOR’s, results from all of the different testing platforms can be consolidated for effective management and integrated into each hospital’s clinical system, providing timely access to these results by all caregivers.
Designed for Extensive Connectivity
TELCOR provides connectivity to more POCT testing devices and LIS/EMR systems than anyone in the industry. Our software connects to 80-plus device types, including all glucose vendors, and is used in more than 1,200 hospitals in North America. We also provide the widest array of point of care configuration options in the industry.
We understand that point of care devices come in all shapes and sizes, each with unique integration requirements. That’s why TELCOR’s system was designed to develop a unique piece of software, called a driver, for each specific device type. These device-type drivers do three main things: talk directly to the vendor’s proprietary software or device, remap the data into a common TELCOR import format, and return the data to the vendor’s proprietary software or devices, if they are capable of receiving electronic data. Our drivers can talk to a vendor’s proprietary software, if required by the vendor, or to the device directly, if no vendor software is available or it is optional, depending on the customer’s deployment strategy.
Designed for Growth
TELCOR’s point of care software is developed utilizing the latest technology and open architecture, allowing for greater flexibility during implementation and the ability to develop connectivity for new POCT device types in only 120 days. This allows hospitals to continue to grow their POCT program without restrictions.
In addition, the implementation process and customer service/support received after implementation is unmatched in the industry, creating a partnership that goes beyond a typical vendor relationship. Our product road map includes new functions and features, as well as connectivity to new device types and enhancements to existing ones. It even includes upgrades at no additional cost to the customer, with TELCOR redeploying each system component with the latest technology.
Why Connect?
Collecting results electronically not only saves labor and improves data quality, but it also allows for extensive reporting for program analysis and compliance requirements. The TELCOR system not only provides a method for smoothly and efficiently passing data from point of care devices to the LIS/EMR, but it also provides a robust set of tools for managing operators, processing exceptions and analyzing data. The more devices that are connected, the more efficiently the point of care program can be managed. By reducing the amount of manual charting, personnel resources can be allocated more effectively and fewer errors are made.
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