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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:
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System
Management, which enables users to view and edit devices and
tests throughout the RALS-Plus network, and;
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Device
Management which enables users to select an individual
device and view specific information.
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System
Management Screens
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Device
Management Screens
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Download
instructions
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Device
Management
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Reagents
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Comments
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Administrative
Settings
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Proficiency
Review
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Linearity
Charts
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Results
Review
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Levey-Jennings
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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.
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