Point of Care Testing

Point of care testing includes medical diagnostic tests that can be done at the time and place of patient care instead of being sent to a medical laboratory.

FDA Warns Troponin Tests Impacted by Biotin Dietary Supplement
Feature | Cardiac Diagnostics | Dave Fornell, Editor

November 5, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is updating its November 2017 safety communication to ...

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August 5, 2019 — A West Virginia-based rural medical outreach event showcased the use of point-of-care technology in an ...

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September 7, 2017 — In July, The Heart Institute at Florida Medical Center became the first hospital in the state of ...

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July 26, 2017 — Siemens Healthineers has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Epocal Inc., a subsidiary of ...

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News | Point of Care Testing | Dave Fornell

July 17, 2017 — Despite issues with point-of-care INR testing company Alere Inc., Abbott announced this week it is once ...

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Siemens Xprecia Stride anticoagulation, coagulation PT/INR or INR testing at the point of care (POC)
Feature | Point of Care Testing | Nicholas C. Vanderslice, Ph.D., and Arnol S. Rios

Point-of-care (POC) coagulation analyzers that measure prothrombin time/international normalized ratio (PT/INR) on ...

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April 5, 2017 — PTS Diagnostics announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared an expanded top ...

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January 27, 2017 — HyperMed Imaging Inc. announced that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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Technology | Blood Pressure Monitor

January 17, 2017 — The new SunTech Oscar 2 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring system (ABPM) is now available ...

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News | Atrial Fibrillation

January 4, 2017 — A smartphone application made it possible to use the iPhone camera to detect atrial fibrillation via ...

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Feature | Point of Care Testing | Ravi Chawat

Point of care testing devices are gaining widespread approval for prompt medical diagnoses, especially in cardiology and ...

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INRatio, Alere, Abbott, I and R testing, INR testing
Feature | Point of Care Testing

December 7, 2016 — Abbott has filed a complaint to terminate its proposed acquisition of Alere based on the substantial ...

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Videos | TCT

DAIC Editor Dave Fornell takes a video tour of some of the most innovative new interventional cardiology technologies he ...

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November 10, 2016 — Siemens Healthineers announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for a hand ...

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Technology | Wearables

AliveCor, Inc., the leader in FDA-cleared electrocardiogram (ECG) technology for mobile devices, announced today the ...

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