Point-of-care testing[POCT] has many advantages and disadvantages. Rapid availability of the results facilitates immediate decision making, which is a most important advantage. However, the results get lost occasionally and solving this problem is essential for the successful use of POCT. We linked a portable blood gas analyzers to the computer network system in our hospital. At the same time we created a new program to automatically save results and create test orders. Thereafter, there has been no loss of results and the results can be checked quickly at any computer display in our hospital. Surveying past results has also become very easy. This rapid sharing and easy survey of results has enhanced the value of POCT by facilitating more immediate clinical decision making and improving the quality of hospital service. In the near future, POCT will have a much greater menu and be used more widely. Many types of echographic studies will be done at bed side as well. Linking POCT to computer network system and automatically saving the results are critical points to providing quality service in hospitals of the new era.
[Rinsho Byori 50 : 931〜935, 2002 ]
*Department of Pediatrics, Mitsubishi Kyoto Hospital, Kyoto 615-8087
【Key Words】POCT，computer network(情報管理システム)，automatically saving results(結果の自動保存)，quick sharing of information(情報の迅速な共有)，quality up of hospital(病院の質の向上)
*三菱京都病院小児科(〒615-8087 京都市西京区桂御所町1)