Point of Care Testing (POCT): defined as medical diagnostic testing at or near the point of care-that is, at the time and place of patient care.[1][2] This contrasts with the historical pattern in ...

COVID-19 has driven an uptick in healthcare delivery approaches like telemedicine and point-of-care, home, and direct-to-consumer testing, a shift that some observers believe could continue to ...

Large scale deployment of rapid, low-cost, hand-held point of care testing devices for diagnosing infectious diseases is critical for improving global health. Recent advances in engineering and ...

In mid-November, much of Western New York was designated an “Orange Zone” due to quickly escalating COVID-19 rates. For Latko, this meant her sons’ schools would be required to test a minimum of 20% ...

WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LumiraDx Limited (LMDX), a next-generation point of care diagnostics company, today announced findings from its second annual “Point of Care ...

Rural Saskatchewan communities are seeing more stable access to emergency health care thanks to the expanding use of point-of ...

Point-of-care-testing for suspected COVID-19 reduces time to results and may improve infection control, suggesting these tests might have clinical advantages over widely used laboratory PCR methods.

Point of care devices within the healthcare system can aid in improving diagnoses as well as the control of diseases through monitoring. These devices can include glucose monitors that only require a ...

Point-of-care (POC) testing with screen-printed electrodes allows rapid testing of populations for viral outbreaks – at affordable costs, without the need for trained specialists and/or complicated ...