Company’s Goal Is to Reduce Consumer’s Need to Visit Clinical Laboratories by Developing a Test Device for Home Monitoring of Fitness and Pre-Existing Conditions

Flow Health Hub device could be disruptive to medical laboratories, as it will be designed to allow patients to perform their own diagnostic tests to monitor pre-existing conditions Another biotech company has its eye on medical laboratory testing and wants to bring to market what it describes as a consumer do-it-yourself test device. The company is designing the device to let consumers do fitness monitoring. But it hopes the device will also allow consumers to monitor pre-existing conditions...

Anticipating the Digital Medicine Revolution, Scripps Doctor Prescribes Smartphone Apps as Frequently as Medications

Pathologists will want to engage with physicians as wireless devices and smartphone apps make it possible to maintain continuous surveillance of the body Pathologists might want to borrow a page from a tech-savvy doctor who was voted the “Most Influential Physician Executive” in 2012. A cardiologist, this physician says he now prescribes mobile applications for his patients almost as frequently as he prescribes therapeutic drugs. Many clinical laboratory managers will recognize the name of...

New iPhone App Allows Consumers to Test Their Urine on the Go for as Many as 25 Different Diseases

Pathologists and clinical laboratory managers may want to learn more about the UCheck mobile app developed by Biosense Technologies   Developers of a new iPhone application claim their app can analyze a urine specimen for up to 25 different diseases. This mobile app is a deliberate attempt to give consumers the ability to perform diagnostic tests that would normally be run in a full-scale clinical laboratory. Pathologists and clinical biochemists will want to visit the website of Biosense...
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