RALS-Plus...

Single Click Information Management
for Point-of-Care Testing

Captures Every Test, Every Time, Everywhere
RALS-Plus is the leading vendor-independent connectivity system for POCT and provides you with total control of your program.  At the click of an icon you can view all results that have been downloaded, display all results that have been flagged based on setup criteria, electronically manage all system operators - by device, email weekly and monthly reports and so much more.

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.  

Flexible Installation Solutions
Thinking of starting by managing your glucose data first, and then adding other devices to system at a later date? Click here to check out what Medical City Dallas did.  Want to implement your entire POC program into a single information management solution at once? Click here to see why John Muir Medical Center chose this path. 

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.

It also provides report generation for results flagged, failed, and completed in the RALS database and supports the following interface types:

Terminal Emulation Interfaces RALS-Plus emulates all major LIS terminal server interfaces, using terminal emulation software.

Windows Client/Server Interfaces RALS-Plus supports interfaces that require a special Windows program (Client) to enter order/result information to the LIS.

One- and Bi-Directional HL7 EDI Interfaces With Health Level 7 (HL7) EDI, RALS-LIS Plus supplies one or more TCP/IP Windows Sockets that communicate with the LIS across the network for the transmission of health related information between health and research facilities.

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.

Click here for a look at the RALS-Plus Flow Diagram

Is Your Device RALS-Plus Compatible?

With a number of interfaces now developed, your current analyzers may already be RALS-Plus compatible. If not, ask your POCT vendor or click here to contact your Medical Automation Systems Regional Business Manager for more information.

*Source: Enterprise Analysis Corporation 2001 POCT Survey.