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TAMonitor™ is designed to be as simple and efficient to use as possible. It comprises a computer programme which collects electronic blood results from your laboratory, and stores them in a database. You can then check those results for abnormalities, trend them to identify deteriorating conditions, and audit them against pre-set frequencies to identify patients who haven’t attended for blood testing when expected.

Connected

Forget about manually creating and amending record cards for patients from paper results. Simply notify your laboratory of those patients’ details, and, provided your lab can produce electronic results, let TAMonitor™’s connection to a mailbox or hospital network collect the results and process them automatically. Reduce time and improve efficiency by letting the machine do the work.

Configurable

Everything in TAMonitor™ is configurable. Lists of drugs, rules associated with them, reasons for cessation of treatment and diagnoses, can be added, changed or removed at will. Even the text for the automatically generated patients’ and primary care physicians’ letters can be altered.

Automated

TAMonitor™ even automates the onerous task of populating the patient database. If you have hundreds of patients to monitor the last thing you want to do is reserve precious resources typing each record in individually.  If you choose to do so, TAMonitor™ will automatically identify new patients from received blood results, create a new patient record with as much demographic detail as is supplied in the result, and then prompt you to confirm the addition of the patient in the database. That means that you can start using TAMonitor™ from day one, without having to wait for all your patients to be added to the database.

Useable

The daily monitoring chore suddenly becomes a background task. Every morning start TAMonitor™ and let it collect the most recent results, scan, trend and audit them while you get on with other things. Collect the reports of any patients’ problems, check them over, escalate them as necessary and get on with the business of providing patient care, confident that the monitoring task has been completed accurately.

Expandable

TAMonitor™ is supported by a number of modules that further extend is use by providing correspondence, reporting, portability of data and linking to hospital patient administration systems.

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