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point-of-care testing
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point-of-care testing
Lab medicine The analysis of clinical specimens as close as possible to the Pt, including bedside, ward–unit, or 'stat' regional response labs that service specified areas–eg, the ER or ICU


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With doctors and patients not wanting to wait hours or days for test results to come back from the lab, the demand for rapid diagnostic, or point-of-care tests (POCT) is rising.
17) The use of unauthorized point-of-care test results in diagnosis and treatment does not comply with practice standards; accreditation requirements; or the security, confidentiality, authentication, integrity, and auditing requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Full hybridization[4,5] of diagnostic testing cannot be achieved without "information capture" from devices and enterprise-wide assimilation of point-of-care test results, including data from ex vivo and in vivo devices used in neonatology and critical care.
 
 
 
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