POCT in a Lab Setting Point-of-Care Kiosk in the ED ED Cardiac Length of Stay 351 297 388 367 0 100 200 300 400 500 Admitted patients Discharged patients Minutes Before POCT After POCT Lewandrowski K. Mass General Hosp., Dark Report, 8/13/01.
What is a GPS? How does it work? The Global Positioning System (GPS) tells you where you are on Earth. Itâs eleven oâclock ... do you know where your kids are? Would you like to? One way to track them would be to have a GPS receiver installed in the car! The GPS, or Global Positioning System, is one of the hottest technologies around, and no wonder. Consider these diverse uses: Minnesota scientists use GPS to study movements and feeding habits of deer.
The GPS is being used in science to provide data that has never been available before in the quantity and degree of accuracy that the GPS makes possible. Scientists are using the GPS to measure the movement of the arctic ice sheets, the Earth's tectonic plates, and volcanic activity. Mobile GPS technology has enabled today's smartphones with convenient and highly efficient means for end users to receive navigating instructions via a global positioning system process called trilateration. A phone's built-in GPS receiver also communicates with an array of satellites which provides navigation instructions for those either in an automobile or ...