How POC testing is pushing the envelope I
t can be hard to remember a time when GPS was not available in cars, the Web didn’t exist, and only eight diagnostic tests were classified as waived and able to be performed at the point of care. But after CLIA’s enactment in 1988, those were some basic realities of location and speed.
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Today, whether for blood gas and electrolytes, glucose, coagulation, cardiac markers, drugs of abuse,
food pathogens, hemoglobin, or infectious diseases, hundreds of tests once considered too complex for point-of-care are routinely performed outside the laboratory. But some of the nation’s experts in point-of-care testing say that developments on the near horizon could make previous advances in POC testing look tame.
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