FIELD OPTIMIZED ASSAY DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS

摘要

A portable unitary device handheld diagnostic device can be operated with minimal power requirement and provides ease of operation as well as low cost communication of diagnostic data from remote locations. The device can provide nucleic-acid based diagnostics with minimal training, little to no sample preparation, and generates diagnostic data in about 45 minutes. A system can enable point of care transmission from any location globally using a low cost satellite-based data link technique, for example, Short Burst Data (SBD), combined with data encoding.

主权项

1. A point of care medical device, comprising:
a medical diagnostic or treatment device with at least one sensor and configured to generate digital data responsively to the at least one sensor; the at least one sensor being adapted to detect and generate a data signal indicative of: a result of an assay of a biological substance, a diagnostic indicator of a human, a treatment outcome, or a condition of diagnostic or treatment device; a communications component configured to store and compress digital data that is responsive to the data signal and to wirelessly transmit said digital data; and the communications component being configured to transmit, at transmission times, in packets of less than a kilobyte size.