Organizational challenges in the management of point-of-care diagnostics in healthcare facilities

Abstract This text is a synopsis of the “Seminar on Organizational Aspects of POCT Management” which was part of the 4th Munich POCT symposium 2019. The session was chaired in part 1 by Christiane Maschek (Berlin) and Anke Urban (Ludwigshafen), and in part 2 by Barbara Oschwald-Häg (Offenburg) and Marco Kachler (Klagenfurt/AT). The seminar was held in German in order to allow non-English-speaking medical technicians the full understanding of the presented contents. Part 1: Nice to Know – Challenges for networking POCT systems (Michaela Markhoff, Hamburg). Best Practice – Implementation of POCT in a hospital without central lab services (Jennifer Planz, Essen). Best Practice – Benefits of the POCT commission demonstrated using the example of implementing glucose POCT devices (Barbara Oschwald-Häg, Offenburg). Part 2: Best Practice – Challenges of a group-wide implementation of a POCT competence management (Sandra Mütze, Berlin). Nice to Know – Learning from mistakes in preanalytics (Reno Konzack, Berlin). New IFCC recommendation for checking reference intervals (Harald Maier, Altötting).