Healthcare workers around the globe are stepping up in this time of crisis and providing critical care as the number of coronavirus cases continues to soar. To help support the nation’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, SSE Technologies partnered with Zebra Technologies and Portable Technology Solutions to develop Golden Test, a patient tracking and data validation application for testing facilities.
Golden Test is a HIPAA-compliant application that’s designed to assist medical professionals with patient data entry, check-in, and completion of a screening questionnaire based on CDC guidelines. It allows healthcare providers to scan a patient’s drivers license through the car window, minimizing patient-to-caregiver contact and increasing throughput speed.
“My daughter recently spent some time with a friend that tested positive for COVID-19. When she developed a low-grade fever and chills, we decided to visit a drive-up testing facility that had just opened up that day. What we experienced was not up to hospital standards. While they did their best to limit patient-to-caregiver contact, patient registration was still paper-based, delaying the input process and increasing the chance of exposure. It was pretty obvious that we could improve the process with barcode readers. Golden Test was developed to help those healthcare professionals out there protecting and taking care of us with a safer and more efficient patient registration process and test sample tracking.”
In addition to patient registration, the Golden Test application has the ability to track the COVID-19 testing process from administration and collection to transportation and result, while providing printable test tube labels and scannable barcodes that can be used for patient retrieval and data entry by laboratory information management systems (LIMS). The app also allows healthcare professionals to print QR mobile labels for patients that allow them to scan and retrieve their results, what to do in the case of positive or negative results and any other pertinent information from the screening facility.
Golden Test is developed on the Zebra TC52-HC mobile computer. Labels are printed using the Zebra ZQ610 mobile printer. It’s scalable to any number of needed devices and available with limited to no network connectivity.
Testing is one of the most important tools for getting the coronavirus pandemic under control in the United States. More testing would help guide treatment and quarantine decisions and give government officials more data about the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak. The goal of Golden Test is to help healthcare workers and medical professionals efficiently and accurately capture patient data and facilitate the COVID-19 testing process.
