Expert-led point-of-care testing consulting
Align helps healthcare organizations assess their testing programs, clarify priorities, and build practical plans for consistent governance, documentation, training, and quality oversight.
The institutional challenge
Testing happens close to the patient, often beyond the day-to-day control of the central laboratory. Yet every organization still needs consistent governance, evidence, training, quality, and oversight.
Without a unified operating model, departments can accumulate different procedures, fragmented records, uneven competency practices, and preventable readiness risk. Align brings the program into one clear system designed around how healthcare teams actually work.
How we engage
Begin with the level of support your organization needs today, then expand only when the evidence and priorities justify it.
A scoped review of your POCT environment, selected records, workflows, training, quality systems, and readiness priorities.
Evidence-based findings, identified information gaps, and a prioritized action plan with a leadership readout.
Hands-on support to translate the roadmap into practical improvements in governance, documentation, and operating processes.
A stronger, more consistent program designed around real clinical operations and agreed priorities.
Recurring expert guidance and review on an agreed schedule and scope, with responsibilities defined before engagement.
Continued progress, structured review, and practical support as the program evolves.
The Align approach
Understand the program, its testing footprint, leadership priorities, and immediate pressures.
Examine available evidence, workflows, and risk while identifying questions that require further work.
Agree on a prioritized plan, clarify ownership, and design practical next steps around clinical reality.
Review progress through a separately scoped follow-on engagement as the program evolves.
Built from inside the work
Angela Gamble brings nine years in the United States Army medical field, five years in education, and the last 18 years specializing in laboratory and point-of-care testing services. She currently serves as Director of Laboratory Support Operations.
At Align POCT, Angela leads assessment design, client discovery, technical judgment, and final recommendations. Her perspective spans operational leadership, multidisciplinary coordination, quality systems, technology, education, and the realities of maintaining standards across decentralized care settings.
Expert-led, technology-supported. Align is developing workflows that organize research, documentation, and draft analysis within Angela’s methodology. The initial approach excludes patient information and PHI.
Where Align can help
Every engagement is tailored to the organization’s setting, testing complexity, accreditation environment, technology, and internal leadership structure.
Enterprise and multi-site POCT governance
Program gap analysis and inspection readiness
Policy, procedure, and document standardization
Device selection and validation planning
Operator training and competency frameworks
Quality control and proficiency-testing support
Middleware, connectivity, and EMR coordination
Corrective action and continuous improvement
Common questions
Align is designed for hospitals, health systems, ambulatory networks, urgent care organizations, specialty clinics, and other healthcare organizations operating point-of-care testing across one or many locations.
No. Most organizations should begin with the Program Assessment & Strategic Roadmap. It creates a shared fact base and prevents a larger engagement from being scoped around assumptions.
No. Align strengthens internal leadership with specialized assessment, implementation capacity, operating structure, and ongoing expert support. Your organization retains its required responsibilities and decision authority.
Align is developing technology-assisted workflows to organize research, documentation, and draft analysis within Angela’s methodology. Angela remains responsible for final client recommendations. The initial approach excludes patient information and PHI, and client materials are handled only under agreed engagement terms.
Start with the real problem
A short intake helps Angela prepare for a more useful first conversation and recommend the right starting point—not the largest engagement.
