Demonstrating ongoing regulatory compliance with a dedicated point-of-care IT solution

A POC IT solution is delivering all the data required to show continuing compliance with ISO accreditation quality standards

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AQURE helps us to gather the data we need for management and quality assurance purposes, and to ensure full traceability. We always know the clinical setting, date, time, analyzer, and lot number of the consumables used, and which person has been working with a particular patient.

- Paloma Oliver Sáez, POC Coordinator at La Paz University Hospital, Spain

Paloma Oliver Sáez, POC Coordinator at La Paz University Hospital, Spain.

Purpose-designed POC IT solution helps La Paz University Hospital demonstrate regulatory compliance

Hospitals accredited to ISO 15189 for medical laboratories and ISO 22870 for point-of-care testing must continually demonstrate compliance with demanding standards regarding the ongoing management of POCT devices, operators, and competencies.

La Paz University Hospital implemented the Radiometer AQURE POC IT solution to enable connectivity to, and real-time monitoring of, POCT devices from various vendors, and to demonstrate operator management and ongoing competence.

Key performance indicators

An important part of achieving and maintaining accreditation is the collection of data to show ongoing compliance with analytical specifications.

However, monitoring a large number of different POCT devices is a challenge, involving many tasks that would not be possible without a middleware solution. AQURE proved a key asset for La Paz, simplifying the collection of data on key performance indicators.

“We’ve been using AQURE since 2014 to give us the connectivity that we need. AQURE is an essential tool that supports us in our day-to-day POCT management, not only for our Radiometer devices, but also for those from third parties. It is very important to us, and our laboratory team uses it frequently throughout the day,” said POC Coordinator Paloma Oliver Sáez.

Accreditation is a way of work

Implementing the AQURE POCT IT solution has helped La Paz to monitor its POCT devices and show day-to-day compliance with accreditation requirements.

“With AQURE, we can collect the primary information we need to show compliance, allowing us to, for example, evaluate internal quality control results on a daily basis. We also need to perform monthly monitoring of imprecision and systematic error, at every level and for each device,” Paloma commented.

“AQURE makes it easier to monitor the POCT devices and gives us more information and control to help avoid pre-analytical errors and reduce error rates.”

Simplifying life in the lab

The AQURE POC IT solution has helped La Paz along its accreditation pathway, delivering the data necessary to show ongoing compliance with quality standards.

“AQURE helps us to gather the data we need for management and quality assurance purposes, and to ensure full traceability. We always know the clinical setting, date, time, analyzer and lot number of the consumables used, and which person has been working with a particular patient,” Paloma concluded.

About the hospital


  • La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
  • Serves a population of ~500,000 people
  • 1,300-bed tertiary public hospital
  • ISO 15189 for medical laboratories
  • ISO 22870 for point-of-care testing
  • 29 ABL90 blood gas analyzers
  • AQURE POCT IT solution

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