Point-of-Care glucose test
What the inventors, Jan Lilja and Sven-Erik Nilsson, saw as they visited labs and doctor's offices triggered the spark that drives human invention: the ability to see possibilities where others just see problems. They saw the frustration within healthcare of having to wait to treat patients or adjust test values that were always 30-40% off. They saw the inaccuracy and dangers of limited reagent durability, shifting instrument calibration, and pipetting. The impracticality of the time it took to send samples to the lab - so troublesome that healthcare workers preferred to send the patient instead. For more info, please visit: Glucose Point of Care testing