Point of Care Testing Consulting Services
For Physician's Office, Urgent Care
and Pharmacy Laboratories
For Physician's Office, Urgent Care
and Pharmacy Laboratories
By definition Point of Care Testing means any test performed at the site of patient care.
These are tests performed within the physician's office, urgent care center, emergency department, or retail pharmacy that give almost immediate results for fast and accurate diagnosis or chronic care management.
Point of care test can usually be performed by anyone with minimal training and is a growing market with new tests becoming available almost daily.
"The American Academy of Family Physicians believes point of care testing performed in physician offices offer timely diagnostics that can improve patient-centered care. Point of care tests should be accurate, reliable, and readily available for family physicians to provide their patients.
Family physicians should have access to accurate and reliable point-of-care testing to expand patient access and to improve management of acute and chronic medical conditions. This may also decrease costs due to fewer referrals for specialty care and to emergency departments. (April 2020 BOD) (2020 COD)"
"Point-of-care testing provides an excellent opportunity for community pharmacies to enhance revenue by expanding patient care services while improving health at the patient and population levels."
"Point-of-care testing is predicted to exceed immunizations as a driver of revenue for community pharmacies, according to research from Deloitte."
by adding fast, easy, revenue generating CMP panels, lipid testing, complete blood counts, liver profiles, renal panels, influenza, RSV, COVID testing and many others within your office.
Sherwood Diagnostics can assist you with test menu selection based on your specific needs, test implementation, and staff training.
Although point of care testing is usually very simple and easy to perform and can be performed by non-laboratory trained professionals, not all tests qualify for use at the point of care. This determination is made by the FDA.
Clinical laboratory testing (including point of care testing) is also regulated under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment Act of 1988 (CLIA '88) and all subsequent amendments to the original act. CLIA defines how clinical laboratory testing is performed, by who, and what guidelines may be required, all to ensure quality and accurate test results. CLIA is regulated by CMS.
A Clinical Laboratory Consultant can easily guide you through the test selection process, staff training and competency and ensure you are not only meeting compliance requirements but produce the quality results you are looking for to improve your patients' care.
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With CMS reimbursement rates exceeding the cost of reagents, the addition of point of care testing can easily increase revenue while increasing patient satisfaction and improving patient care.
With distributor incentive programs, POLs can receive analyzers at reduced rates or even free of charge.