IVC Diagnostics

• Expanding the services offered in your practice, generates additional income. 
• Aligns practices for value-based care.
• Affordability of healthcare remains a concern.  As a new income stream for the clinician, POC testing can increase revenue from the first test.
• Test is recognised by medical aids and tariff codes have been assigned.  Through offering point of care testing at your practice patients benefit from the affordability of these tests compared to traditional pathology laboratories.
• Tests with the required claiming codes can be claimed through the patient’s medical aid.  Reducing the requirement for patients to only seek healthcare when they can afford it.

POCT saves you and your patients’ time.  Having the ability to deliver a diagnosis and decide on the correct treatment is a big win for both clinician and patient.

• POCT can be fully integrated into current workflows and processes.  This means that results are included into the patient’s electronic medical record in real-time.  Supporting the global trend towards integrated platforms and digital health information.
• However, we completely understand the challenges we are facing with regards to connectivity these mobile point of care devices does not need to be integrated or connected to your practice management software in order to be of benefit to your practice.  Results are available in paper format to be added to the patient’s electronic health record manually if required.
• Results are available within minutes, reducing delays in initiating treatment, saving patients time, effort and money.  And improving outcomes.
• The patient’s experience is positive, receiving results immediately during the same consultation reduces anxiety and leads to a happy customer. 

• Through the advanced devices you can offer tests and analysis previously only available through traditional pathology laboratories.
• Expanding the affordable pathology services from your practice, brings communities to your rooms that otherwise would have visited public healthcare facilities.
• Point of care testing enables rapid clinical decision making and diagnosis (rule-in or rule-out), treatment choices and monitoring of therapy, prognosis as well as operational decision making and resource utilization.

Specimen collection and the operation of the laboratory analyser is simple and does not require intensive training.

• Due to the compact nature of these devices, it can be used to expand your practice and open up a world where you can travel to communities and patients with basic equipment and analysers.  Equipment is light and portable and can be a great assistance during home visits, employee wellness days or when consulting at retirement villages.
• Applying healthcare recourses cost effectively.  Identifying the most appropriate treatment or further investigation, sometimes as soon as the first consultation.  Saving on unnecessary and often expensive investigations early in the treatment.