08:30 – 09:30 Welcome and Coffee
09:30 – 09:45 Introduction Nick Verougstraete (Co-chair, Working Group on POCT);
Matthijs Oyaert (President-elect, RBSLM);
Arnaud Capron (Head of the Department of Quality of Laboratories, Sciensano)
09:45 – 13:00 Morning presentations
09:45 – 11:10

Session 1: State of the art and regulatory requirement for POC implementationModerators: Nathalie De Vos and Damien Gruson

Clinical/diagnostic requirements of POCT testing Lieve Van Hoovels (AZorg; Aalst, Belgium)

Point-of-care testing: state of the art and perspectives Mario Plebani (University of Padova; Padova, Italy)

Implementation POCT in Belgium: progress in legislation/reimbursement Gregor Pairoux (Sciensano; Brussels, Belgium), Viviane Van Hoof (University of Antwerp; Antwerp, Belgium) & Jan Verbakel (KU Leuven; Leuven, Belgium)
11:10 – 12:00 Coffee break + Guided poster tour
12:00 – 13:00

Session 2: Challenges and advances in POCT technologiesModerators: Katrien Lanckmans + Dragos Barglazan

AI/data management in POCT Ann Verdonck (University Hospital Leuven; Leuven, Belgium)

External quality assurance for the future Sverre Sandberg (University of Bergen; Bergen, Norway)
13:00 – 13:40 Lunch break
13:40 – 14:20 Industry Symposium by Roche Diagnostics
14:20 – 14:30 Poster Awards ceremony
14:30 – 17:00 Afternoon presentations
14:30 – 15:30

Session 3: POCT applications in secondary and tertiary settingsModerators: Bart Peeters and Joris Penders

POCT coagulation during (cardiac) surgery Michaël Vandenheuvel (Ghent University Hospital; Ghent, Belgium)

POCT testing in diabetes management – CGM Liesbeth Van Huffel (AZorg; Aalst, Belgium)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00

Session 4: POCT applications in acute care settingsModerators: Laurent Blairon and Helene De Wolf

Impact of pre-analytics: Military hospital Julie Degueldre & Anke Stoefs (Military Hospital Queen Astrid; Brussels, Belgium)

Clinical effectiveness of point-of-care high-sensitivity troponin I testing inthe emergency department David Bos (KU Leuven; Leuven, Belgium)
17:00 Closing of the symposium