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MAS Launches RALS®-Plus Module for
Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics’ Clinitek Status®
March 19, 2007,
Charlottesville, VA–Medical Automation Systems, Inc. (MAS)
announced today they have launched the Siemens Medical Solutions
Diagnostics’ Clinitek Status® module in RALS®-Plus.
RALS-Plus is a widely used point-of-care (POC) data management
system developed and marketed by MAS. The Clinitek Status is a
point of care urinalysis analyzer marketed by Siemens
Diagnostics.
RALS-Plus will enable users of the
Clinitek Status analyzers to automatically manage, report and
electronically transfer patient urinalysis data to the RALS-Plus
database and the hospital's laboratory information system.
The Beta trial was completed in
December 2006 at Mercy Health System in Darby, PA. “The trial
was flawless and allowed us the opportunity to evaluate, in
detail, the use of the analyzer in the Emergency Department, for
both urine dipstick and urine pregnancy testing,” said Dr. Bette
Seamonds, Director of POCT Services at Mercy Health Laboratory.”
Connecting the analyzer to RALS will certainly raise the bar
from a QA perspective and finally allow the data to pass to the
lab information system. Overall, the new connectivity is a huge
step in filling a gap that will please the physicians and
point-of-care coordinators and will certainly lead to improved
patient care.”
“As the
industry’s leader in data management systems for point of care
testing, we are very pleased to add the Clinitek Status to the
RALS-Plus family of interfaces,” said Greg Menke President and
CEO of MAS. “The Clinitek product line has maintained a
leadership position in the marketplace for many years. Many of
our 1200 hospitals use Clinitek systems and we are pleased to be
able to offer them an interface to this new device.”
RALS-Plus is the leading
vendor-independent connectivity system for POCT and provides
users with total control of their POC program. At the click of
an icon you can view results that have been downloaded, display
results that have been flagged based on setup criteria,
electronically manage system operators, email weekly and monthly
reports and so much more. RALS-Plus is designed to grow your POC
program when you’re ready to grow it. The system’s modular
design enables you to begin with one device interface and add as
your needs demand.
About MAS
Medical
Automation Systems, Inc. (www.medicalautomation.com)
is the country’s premier provider of data management systems
used by hospitals to monitor and manage diagnostic testing
performed at the patient’s bedside. Founded in 1994, MAS will
have a presence in over 1,200 U.S. hospitals by the end of 2006.
With the 1999 Institute of Medicine report on the impact of
medical errors on patient mortality and cost of care, an
increasing number of hospitals are focused on taking steps to
minimize the number of errors tied to patient and specimen
identification.
RALS-Plus provides a healthcare information technology (IT)
solution that can aid in eliminating sources of bedside
diagnostic testing identification errors cited in the
Institute’s report. Other products include
RALS-Web, providing instant access to POC results through
the hospital intranet;
RALS-eQuiz, an on-line training tool with re-certification
quizzes and automatic grading;
RALS-TGCM, a Tight Glycemic Control Module featuring
graphical reports for those caring for patients on glycemic
control protocols. MAS also supports websites that provide
source and reference materials on the point-of-care industry and
glycemic control protocols. Visit
www.pointofcare.net, and
www.glycemiccontrol.net. |
