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High-performing, connected glucose Point of Care testing for professional settings and all patient populations.

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Empowering you to elevate care—even for your most vulnerable patients

Regular blood glucose testing in hospitals is vital to identify dangerous imbalances and adjust treatment, preventing life-threatening situations and long-term complications—even in patients without diabetes.1-4 The alarming rise in diabetes, coupled with strained healthcare systems, demands innovative connected blood glucose solutions—now more than ever.

Improve patient outcomes and ensure high-quality patient care with our connected, advanced glucose Point of Care testing solutions for accurate blood glucose results in professional settings. With a focus on digital health, we strive to create solutions that not only help to improve glucose Point of Care testing but also revolutionize the way we provide care.

From Accu-Chek® Inform II to the cobas® pulse system, you get high-performing, connected Point of Care glucose testing solutions—and more. The innovative cobas® pulse system comes with cutting-edge technology, is customizable through mobile health apps, and integrates easily into existing infrastructures. Together with our navify® POC digital solutions, you gain valuable medical insights to help optimize patient care and simplify hospital workflows. Ensure high serviceability and compliance with strict regulations, empower better reporting and analysis, and improve your operational efficiency—all while maintaining central lab control.

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Benefits of hospital blood glucose POC testing solutions from Roche

Elevate patient experience and drive better care
  • Improve patient outcomes: Regular blood glucose monitoring in hospitals is vital to help prevent and manage hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, and glucose variability, which increase complications, death, and costs.1-4 These issues can occur even in patients without diabetes—between 30–80% of intensive care patients experience stress-induced hyperglycemia in the perioperative period.5 Additionally, 15% of newborns experience hypoglycemia, posing serious health risks if left unrecognized and untreated.6
  • Harness the power of digitally enhanced solutions: Optimize treatments and aid decision-making with mobile health apps and data-driven health insights.
  • Support clinical decision-making: Connected POC hospital blood glucose solutions aid clinical decision-making to ensure patient safety with maximum compliance and high performance when fast, reliable and highly accurate results matter for your most vulnerable patients.7
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  • Trust in reliable results: Cutting-edge technology and a unique, advanced strip architecture deliver advanced results and accuracy without any interferences.7
  • Use for various patient populations and hospital settings: The high-performing POC hospital glucose monitoring system cobas® pulse is the only device on the market to meet CLSI POCT12-A31 criteria8—making it suitable for any hospital environment and various patient populations.7
  • Provide complete, accurate, and timely documentation: To ensure complete, accurate, and up-to-date blood sugar readings, it's essential for electronic medical records (EMRs) to seamlessly connect with glucometers. This eliminates errors caused by manual data entry and reduces the risk of mistakes when calculating insulin doses.9
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  • Promote easy to use and simplified learning: The intuitive Android™ based interface on cobas® pulse and the device-guided test process with color changes between each step, ensures fast and easy operation and helps train new staff faster.
  • Provide centralized control: navify® POC digital solutions enable hospital staff to manage devices from a centralized lab or a decentralized location to orchestrate POC operations. This enables remote troubleshooting, simplifying software updates and ongoing monitoring, while helping you stay compliant and facilitate accreditation.
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  • Save costs with connected solutions: Studies suggest connected systems can deliver significant cost savings to the hospital. Simply linking Point of Care blood glucose meter data electronically to the hospital information system (HIS) resulted in annual savings of $119,095. This positive impact came primarily from eliminating the time nurses spent manually entering results into the HIS.10,11
  • Help reduce medical errors: Connectivity is the key to hospital Point of Care blood glucose management programs, including aspects such as quality control, identification of testing personnel, and post-analytical transfer of results to the HIS. It can help in reducing medical errors, improving staff compliance, showing that regulatory requirements are met and wasted supplies are tracked.11
  • Reinvent care delivery with smart digital tools: Make informed decisions, communicate seamlessly, document accurately, report additional offline tests, measure digital biomarkers, monitor vital signs, collect data and more with Roche and third-party apps.

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  4. Hermanides J et al. Glucose variability is associated with intensive care unit mortality. Crit Care Med. 2010; 38(3):838-842.
  5. Roth J et al. Blood Sugar Targets in Surgical Intensive Care—Management and Special Considerations in Patients With Diabetes. Deutsches Arzteblatt international.  2021; 118:629–36.
  6. Roeper M et al. Neonatal hypoglycemia: lack of evidence for a safe management. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2023; 14:1179102. 
  7. Roche cobas® GLU test strips Method Sheet, v 3.0, 2023.
  8. CLSI, POCT12-A3 Point of Care Blood Glucose Testing in Acute and Chronic Care Facilities -Approved Guideline-Third Edition. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087 USA, 2013.
  9. Sowan AK et al. Transcription Errors of Blood Glucose Values and Insulin Errors in an Intensive Care Unit: Secondary Data Analysis Toward Electronic Medical Record-Glucometer Interoperability. JMIR Med Inform 2019; 7(1):e11873.
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  11. Salka L et el. Connectivity for point-of-care glucose testing reduces error and increases compliance. Point of Care. 2003; 2(2):114-118.
  12. Carraro P, Plebani M. Post-analytical errors with portable glucose meters in the hospital setting. Clin Chim Acta. 2009 Jun; 404(1):65-7.