Over the past few years, our customers have asked us to provide an interface with their unconnected devices that require data transfer to their Lab Information System. Good examples are co-oximetry and other site specific tests.

In response, we’ve developed a new device initiative that enables RALS to meet a primary need of getting POC results to the LIS. An initiative that rapidly integrates new devices into RALS and improves overall POC data workflow. An initiative that provides:

• The ability to manage operator competency and recertification records

• The ability to manage patient test results and flagged results, and

• The ability to send results from RALS to the patient medical record

As a result, RALS now has a larger menu of POC devices... and a menu that’s rapidly growing every day. Click here for our device interface list.

Interfaced to the Widest Range of Bi-Directional Devices
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. Even if you choose to change a device from one vendor to another, the transition with RALS-Plus can be a seamless one. Today, more POC device vendors like Bayer, Biosite, HemoCue, Instrumentation Laboratory, i-STAT, ITC, Lifescan and Roche Diagnostics, as well as institutions throughout the United States and Canada, trust their results to RALS-Plus. Click here for our device interface list.

Improves Patient Care & Your Bottom Line
RALS-Plus is a proven, CIC compliant, system that captures every result and puts patient information where it belongs - in the hands of providers that can use the data to improve the quality of patient care.  What’s more, by capturing all POC test results, RALS-Plus can assist in turning cost centers into profit centers by providing improved billing opportunities.

Wide Range of Report Options

RALS-Plus enables users to view the status and progress of their POC program by providing a number of standard and custom reports.

Common Look and Feel Across All POC Tests Simplifies Training

If your facility employs multiple data management programs, your staff might be spending more time learning about software than about the needs of their patients. As a vendor-independent solution, RALS-Plus manages the data from multiple vendor devices using the same menus, tables and databases.

Simply put, once you are trained on managing results from one device, you’re pretty much trained on all of them. RALS-Plus is divided into two operating sections:

• System Management, which enables users to view and edit devices and tests throughout the RALS-Plus network, and;

• Device Management which enables users to select an individual device and view specific information.

Transfers All Test Results to the Laboratory Information System

Studies have indicated that nearly 60% of all POC tests never make it to the patient record*. Tests that a doctor is never aware of and tests that the hospital never accounts for. RALS-Plus enables all tests to be recorded on the patient’s electronic record, optimizing the POC program’s efficiency and offering the potential to turn the program from a cost center into a profit center if the institution bills for POCT. RALS-Plus takes test data and transfers Patient ID, Operator ID, Device ID, Test Date and Time, Test Type, Test Value, Units of Measurement, and Comment Codes as needed in the individual site.

ADT Interface Optimizes Patient Verification Data

The RALS-Plus ADT interface optimizes the verification of patient POC data by monitoring the HIS to gather demographic and visit information. RALS-Plus also verifies patient ID by device assigned location, or download location versus patient location at the time of the test, and enables specific information such as account numbers to be transferred.

*Source: Enterprise Analysis Corporation 2001 POCT Survey.