Summary:
Analyzing the entire clinical process that
point of care testing supports frequently
discloses room for efficiency improvement.
The "Lean" movement offers a framework for
doing this process analysis. Electronic
integration of POCT into the clinical
process is a growing for "lean" process
analysis. Two examples (outpatient coag
clinic and cardiovascular OR blood gases)
will be shared showing how a entire clinical
process can be "leaned" with up front
process analysis.
Objectives:
1) Cite 5 examples
of how POCT is innately "lean"
2) Describe the
growing importance of the user/IT interface
in efficient clinical process design
3) State the
importance of assessing the entire clinical
process before installing POCT
About
the Speaker:
Dr. Jay B. Jones, Ph.D., DABCC has
served as the Director, Geisinger Regional
Laboratories since 1985 and the Director,
Ancillary Testing Program for Geisinger
Medical Center’s Division of Laboratory
Medicine since 1992. Concurrently, he has
also held the position of Director,
Chemistry and Toxicology since 1981. Prior
to his current duties, Dr. Jones worked in
the Special Chemistry Section of Georgetown
University Medical Center; the Laboratory of
Chemistry at the University of Southern
California; the Section on Intermediary
Metabolism and Bioenergetics, National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the
National Institute of Health (1970-1978);
and as part of the Commissioned Officer's
Training and Extern Program (C.O.S.T.E.P.)
with the National Institute of Arthritis and
Metabolic Diseases. Dr. Jones currently
chairs the Provider Review Committee,
Industrial In Vitro Diagnostics Connectivity
Consortium (IICC). He has also chaired the
Laboratory Information Systems and Medical
Informatics Division (LISMI) of American
Association for Clinical Chemistry
(2001-2004). Additionally, he has served as
a member of the Program Coordinating Council
(PCC), American Association for Clinical
Chemistry (AACC); National Committee
Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) Area
Committee on Laboratory Automation, working
group on Point-of-Care Testing Connectivity
(POCT1-A); Connectivity Industrial
Consortium (CIC), Point-of-Care Testing
Connectivity; and as AACC liaison, American
National Standards Institute, Healthcare
Informatics Standards Board (ANSI/HISB).
After receiving his B.S. from the University
of Maryland in Microbiology, Dr. Jones
earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from George
Washington University. He completed
postdoctoral fellowships in biochemistry at
the University of Southern California
(1978-1979) and Clinical Chemistry at
Georgetown University Medical Center (Martin
Rubin, Ph.D., 1979-1980). He is a diplomate
of the American Board of Clinical Chemistry.
This web meeting
was provided
with financial support from:
Radiometer; MAS; Siemens
This web event is produced by Whitehat Communication,
in
cooperation with
Point of Care.net
