Author: Christopher P. Price
The message is clear - the technology now exists to deliver diagnostic tests at the point of care. With this technology comes new opportunities, benefits,
and challenges: The opportunities to put patients at the center of healthcare delivery; the benefits of quicker and better decision making about healthcare interventions; and the challenges of ensuring that the required quality of testing can be achieved and that the process of care is changed in order to deliver the healthcare outcomes and economic advantages that POCT has been shown to provide. Supporting a
systems approach to healthcare delivery, POCT
empowers caregivers and patients to accept these new technologies in the way they have…
