Genalyte Reveals a POCT System with QC in the Cloud

The time is ripe for bringing to market a POCT analyzer with a relatively large test menu that can be managed by less skilled operators and requires micro-samples. That seems to be the business model forGenalyte (see:Real-time In Vitro Diagnostic Results at the Point of Care?). Below is an excerpt from an article about this new company:Genalyte ’s cloud-basedMaverick Detection System could potentially change how and when doctors order blood draws, altering long-standing clinical laboratory workflows. Anatomic pathologists and medical laboratory leaders may be aware of efforts in the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry to perform clinical laboratory tests with smaller quantities of blood....The biomedical diagnostics developer has announced it is readying its new Maverick Detection System (Maverick), which, according to the company ’s website, “completes a comprehensive battery of blood tests in the physician’s office with results in 15 minutes.”....[Genalyte's] central lab handles tests that cannot be completed onsite.“At the core of our cloud-based, diagnostic laboratory offering is revolutionary technology that uses silicon photonic biosensors to perform multiple tests off a single drop of whole blood in 15 minutes,”....In a MedCity News article, Cary Gunn, Genalyte ’s founder and CEO, said, “There will always be a need for esoteric testing that needs to be referred to a laboratory. But for the vast majority of routine testing, there’s no reaso...
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