W. W. van Solinge

Department of Clinical Chemistry, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

The last two years Point of Care testing has made significant progress. Not only has the quality of the analyzers and tests increased considerably, also new possibilities have been made available concerning management of the point of care program. Recently we decided our laboratory had to take responsibility for all point of care testing done in our adult and paediatric, 1042 bed, university hospital. In order to be able to control a point of care program in our hospital, we developed a strategy to introduce point of care, create acceptance in the clinic, the laboratory and with the administration. In addition, we can control the quality of care and monitor the amount and nature of point of care tests performed.