Course · 4 hours of CPD
Understand POCT connectivity before you sign anything
Interfaces, middleware, patient matching, IT governance: the working knowledge that lets you specify what your service needs, challenge vendor claims, and keep results flowing safely into the record.
4 hours of CPD with a certificate for your CPD portfolio. Pay by card, or book with an NHS purchase order.
Who this is for
- POCT coordinators specifying or inheriting connected device estates
- Quality and IT staff asked to make POCT results reach the record
- Procurement leads comparing vendor connectivity claims
- Private clinics tired of transcribing results by hand
What you will leave able to do
- Explain how a result travels from device to record, and every place it can fail
- Speak the language: interfaces, middleware, order matching, flags, audit trails
- Specify patient identification requirements that prevent wrong record results
- Ask vendors the questions that expose weak connectivity claims
- Handle the information governance essentials for patient data in transit
- Write the connectivity section of a business case or tender
Syllabus
Module by module
01 The journey of a result
- From cartridge to clinical record: every hop, in plain language
- Where results silently stop, duplicate or mismatch
- Manual transcription: the risk you are probably underwriting today
02 The vocabulary, decoded
- Interfaces and standards: what the acronyms mean operationally
- What middleware actually does, and when you need it
- Flags, ranges and comments: what should travel with a result
03 Patient identification
- Positive patient ID at the device: options and trade-offs
- Matching results to records: the rules that prevent harm
- What to do with results that cannot be matched
04 Governance of data in motion
- Information governance essentials for POCT data
- Audit trails: what good looks like when something goes wrong
- Access, retention and the questions your IG team will ask
05 Buying connectivity
- The vendor demonstration: what to insist on seeing live
- Twelve questions that separate marketing from capability
- Writing requirements a supplier can be held to
06 Your connectivity map
- Draw your current estate with our mapping worksheet
- Prioritise: which flows to fix first and why
- The business case skeleton, ready to fill in
Led by a specialist who has worked every side of POCT
Your course lead has spent a career in point of care testing: implementing, validating and supporting services day to day inside hospitals, consulting to device manufacturers and distributors on POCT and market access, and leading product management for POCT IT solutions. Every module draws on that mix of bench, business and digital, done for real.
Pricing
Simple pricing, team friendly
Individual
£99
- Full course access
- 4 hours of CPD, certificate included
- Estate mapping worksheet
- Vendor question bank
Advisory
Quoted
- Independent connectivity scoping for your service
- Procurement and tender support
Teams of 3 or more save 10%, teams of 5 or more save 15%. NHS purchase orders welcome. If the standards change, your materials are updated free. Prices exclude VAT where applicable.
Questions, answered
Is this course selling a product?
No. It is deliberately vendor neutral. We teach you how connectivity works and how to hold any supplier to account, whoever they are.
I am not technical. Will I keep up?
Yes. It is written for clinical and quality professionals first. Every concept is explained through what it means for your service, not through network diagrams.
Does this count as CPD?
The course represents 4 hours of CPD with a certificate for your portfolio.
We already have connected devices. Still useful?
Especially then. Inherited estates usually have unmapped flows and silent failure modes. The mapping module exists for exactly that.
Can we pay by purchase order?
Yes, NHS and corporate purchase orders are welcome.