Although clinical laboratory medicine is alive and well, and is lilkely to be so
into the foreseeable future, there is an unstoppable trend towards Point-of-
Care diagnosis, in the hospital, moving tests to the OR and bedside, in the
doctors office, and increasingly in the home.
SiM14 Program for Point of Care Diagnostics
Chaired by
: Dr. Stuart Hendry, Sphere Medical
Affordable sensors to detect micro-organisms using reagentless and
label-less impedance spectroscopy
AndrewWard, University of Strathclyde
Point-of-Care testing of NO metabolites
Prof. M. Gabriela Almeida, Univeridade Nova de Lisboa
PCB-based technology incorporating µPCR and micromechanical bio-
sensors in a lab-on-a-chip for medical diagnosis
Dr. Despina Moschou, NCSR “Demokritos” and University of Southampton
Delivering a portable, quantitative, rapid diagnostic system for point of
care diagnostics
Courtney Nicholson, AgPlus Diagnostics Ltd
Pont of Care Diagnostics
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Sensor100 January 2014
