The complete Roche point-of-care glucose testing solution, including wireless connectivity, data management, training and support, has helped Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to change smoothly from one system to another and to benefit from unique safety features.
In March 2012, Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust made the decision to adopt the Roche point-of-care testing (POCT) blood glucose system, converting from their previous glucose meters to join the Peninsula contract for blood glucose monitoring and to allow the trust to benefit from a wireless-connected hospital solution. The new contract currently includes 450 handheld Roche Accu-Chek Performa meters, distributed among community hospitals, GPs and community nurses in the local area, and 65 Roche Accu-Chek Inform II meters, located on wards, in theatres and out-patient departments throughout Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester. The Accu-Chek Inform II meters are wireless-enabled and connected to the Roche cobas IT 1000 POCT data management system.
Accu-Chek Inform II is the only hospital blood glucose meter to offer wireless connectivity. It allows patient, operator and test details to be captured and transmitted immediately to cobas IT 1000, which ensures real-time verification of patient and operator identity at the bedside, and allows authorised medical staff to have instant access to results with a complete audit trail.
This wireless connectivity was one of the features of the Roche system that was particularly appealing to the team at Dorset County Hospital. “Our previous system required meters to be placed in a docking station to upload data and this sometimes caused a delay in receiving important information about hypoglycaemic or hyperglycaemic readings,” explains diabetes nurse specialist Lisa Clark. “With wireless connectivity, the results are transmitted immediately, whether the meter is docked or not, so this is no longer an issue.”
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