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RALS Case Studies

• John Muir Medical Center Recognizes the Need for a Centralized,
  Fully Integrated POC Data Management Platform and Implements RALS-Plus
  
  Medical Automation Systems has been installing its RALS technology throughout the United States and Canada since 1996 and now has nearly 500 sites up and running. However, when MAS sent a team to Walnut Creek, CA in September 2003 to implement a RALS-Plus system at John Muir Medical Center, it wasn’t “just another install”. Unlike other institutions that started their connectivity programs with glucose data management, and added other modules to their system some time later, John Muir decided to “jump in with both feet” and planned on managing a system that included devices from five different vendors right from the start. It’s a strategy that MAS knew would happen when it launched RALS-Plus as a vendor-independent information management system for POCT in 2001. Click here for more >

• Medical City Dallas Uses Modular Approach with RALS-Plus to Grow Point-of-Care Testing Program
  
  When Medical City Dallas (MCD) decided to ‘connect’ their Accu-Chek HQ™ meters to the RALS-G, glucose only Pointof-Care Data Management System, in June 2000, they knew that at some point in the future, they would move to RALS-Plus to handle the multiple POC analyzers being used in their hospital. That point in the future came two years later, in June of 2002, when MCD upgraded from the HQ to the Accu-Chek Inform® meter and added the Roche Coaguchek® Pro DM coagulation analyzer to their POC program. Click here for more >

• Connectivity for Point-of-Care Glucose Testing Reduces Error and Increases Compliance
  
  Point-of-care testing (POCT) is a rapidly growing field that emphasizes timely results, adherence to regulatory guidelines, as well as reducing cost. Recently, the authors implemented POCT connectivity using the Remote Automated Laboratory Syste (RALS Plus), which linked 61 glucose testing sites, 120 glucose meters, and 2,686 operators to a data management system. Also, the glucose meter was changed from the Accu-Data GTS to the Accu-Chek Inform. To determine the impact of connectivity on the glucose POCT program, software features such as operator lockout, quality control lockout, and the labor cost for the POCT coordinator were evaluated for a period of 3 months before and after its implementation.  Click here for more >