Reducing errors and enhancing compliance: a practical look at digital workflow in blood gas testing
2025-09-09 17:00:00
This session explores how hospitals are transforming blood gas testing workflows by gaining oversight, reducing manual processes, and preventing patient-sample reporting errors all while preparing more confidently for inspections.
Blood Gas Testing is critical for accurate diagnosis and overall patient care, but managing it across multiple departments, shifts and sites can create challenges in oversight, consistency and compliance. Moreover, with new regulatory standards around staff qualifications and competency assessments, the workload of point of care coordinators has increased.
Speaker
Join Mr. David Gibson, Respiratory Care Director at Saline Memorial Hospital, for a firsthand look at how his team transformed blood gas testing processes. Learn how they have reconstructed workflows to gain better control, improve traceability, and reduce costly errors - without adding more to already stretched teams.
Key take aways
You will walk away with actionable insights you can apply in your own environment - whether you are looking to improve compliance, reduce time spent chasing data, minimize patient-sample reporting errors or better prepare for inspections.
This session is designed for teams navigating growing blood gas reporting demands while staying compliant and inspection ready.
Learning Objectives
- Describe how a leading U.S. hospital implemented streamlined POCT operations across multiple shifts and sites to improve workflow efficiency.
- Identify strategies used to reduce patient sample errors and evaluate their impact on patient safety and quality of care.
- Explain how consistent oversight practices contributed to simplifying audit preparation and maintaining regulatory compliance.
- Apply real-world practices from a leading hospital to their own POCT oversight challenges.