Outline
        Compliance improvement with connectivity
        Quality management program for unit use 
          devices
        Continuous glucose monitors: pre-
          analytical, analytical and post-analytical 
          factors
        Plastic capillary tubes
                                
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                       May         June         July      October*
                                        Month
                     5 North         6 East          9 North
        *Post RALS Plus implementation with the operator lockout 
        feature.
                                       
            Unauthorized operators on all 61 nursing 
            units before and after connectivity:  Costs
                                          Before          After 
                 Expenses              Connectivity    Connectivity
       POCT time spent on creating        36 hrs           0 hrs
       and issuing reports/3 mos
       Nursing time spent                 4.5 hrs          0 hrs
       responding to reports/3 mos
       TOTAL unauthorized                $847.80          $0.00
       operators associated labor 
       cost/3 mos
                                      
          Quality control failures: Costs
                                  Before          After
            POCT Cost          Connectivity   Connectivity
       Time spent 
       troubleshooting/ 3         3 hrs          15 min
       mos
       TOTAL 
       troubleshooting labor     $58.53           $4.88
       cost/3 mos
                                 
           Reduction in labor costs after interface of 
           the Inform with the LIS: 3 month period
                  Expenses                Before         After 
                                        Connectivity Connectivity
       Manual result LIS entry:
         Average time/single result        1 min           0
         Average number results/3 mos     84,858        84,858
         Labor cost                     $32,627.90       $0.00
       Performing manual audits:
         Time required/3 mos               24 hrs          0
         Labor cost                       $468.24        $0.00
       TOTAL labor costs related to 
       manual result entry and audits   $33,096.14       $0.00