Recent Articles from the INR Pro Developers

INR Pro featured in medical group magazine
Our software INR Pro was featured in an article about the success of the Unity Point Community Anticoagulation Therapy (CAT) Clinic in the Rosendaal method for patient TTR calculations available in Excel template
The Rosendaal method¹ of calculating therapeutic time in range (TTR) has become one of the more popular methods of determining how well a patient is maintaining their INR test results. ...
New INR data reports available from your current anticoagulation system
The INR Pro Reporting System� was developed for clinics and hospitals that already have an anticoagulation management software system repl...
Let us manage your patients
We have recently partnered with Alternative Health Care, Inc. to provide our charting, notification and tracking system to their Patient Self Testing service.
The service is geared towards smal...
Free Patient Anticoagulation Self-Testing Checklist
We have been seeing a rise in clinics and physicians who are moving their anticoagulation patients to self-testing, so we decided to compile a checklist, to help you determine which of your patients a...
But we can't afford a system right now...
The economy has put any purchase under intense scrutiny these days. Here are some reasons why pursuing an electronic anticoagulation management system is still a great investment.
1) Efficiency ...
Does self-testing improve patient compliance?
In late 2008, the CAT Clinic in Cedar Rapids, IA began a patient self-testing initiative. Home monitors were sent to eligible patients, and training was provided to patients on how to take proper meas...
Change to Patient Dosage Printout
Due to customer and other user feedback, HSS has recently updated the patient dosage handout, to make it easier to read and interpret for the patient. This form should be printed and handed to the pat...
Measuring Quality of Oral Anticoagulation Care
A recent article was published in the March 2009 edition of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety titled "Measuring Quality of Oral Anticoagulation Care: Extending Quality...
SECAPS Conference Summary
Healthcare System Solutions recently attended the SECAPS (Southeastern College ...
How to Use Lean and Six Sigma in an Anticoagulation Clinic
HSS was directly involved in a government grant to study how to apply Lean and Six Sigma to an anticoagulation clinic.
We setup the project using the DMAICR model (Six Sigma methodology), and i...
Patient testing continues despite major floods
Starting the week of June 9th, 2008, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, experienced flooding of catastrophic historic proportions. The Cedar River
The Community Anticoagulation Therapy (CAT) Clinic in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, began working with patients in February 2006 as a result of a $600,000 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Qual...
How to Setup a Virtual Anticoagulation Clinic
Virtual anticoagulation clinics are becoming very popular as an effective approach to manage warfarin patients, primarily using phone consultations and electronic databases, in a centralized community...
How to Prevent Medication Errors
I recently attended the 4th Annual Excellence in Patient Safety conference in Jacksonville, FL. One of the speakers ...
Use the Median Instead of Average When Evaluating Process Cycle Times
To evaluate the efficiency of a clinic, process cycle times are often looked at on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Time between blood test until results reviewed by staff, time between lab visit and...
Avoiding Dosage Changes When Special Causes Are Identified
Many anticoagulation management systems provide a run chart of the patient's historical INR results, so you can remember how each patient has evolved in their therapy, to see what range they typically...
How to Calculate Therapeutic Time in Range
At the National Conference on Anticoagulation Therapy, a presentation was given by Scott Kaatz, MD, regarding the different metrics for determining therapeutic time in range. Three different methods w...
Evaluate Process Cycle Times When Handoffs Occur Between Departments
If you operate a clinic that does not have Point-of-Care testing, rather the results of the blood test are uploaded, emailed, faxed or mailed to the clinic for review via a laboratory or patient self-...