A point-of-care diagnostic solution for urgent and ambulatory care delivery in the community

随着英国人口老龄化和心血管疾病、慢性阻塞性肺病和糖尿病等慢性疾病的流行，对紧急护理的需求持续上升。NHS正在评估在社区提供紧急和非卧床护理的新方法，允许患者在当地医院或家中接受治疗，并建立更具成本效益和可持续的护理模式。推出这些服务的一个关键挑战是无法在医院外快速获得实验室质量的血液检测。Jupiter Diagnostics Limited开发了一种最先进的体外诊断（IVD）系统，可在10分钟内从毛细血管血液样本中提供低成本，实验室质量的床旁（POC）血液检测结果。该项目将开发一个测试面板，以帮助临床医生更好地评估和管理出现呼吸困难或胸痛症状的患者-最常见的紧急医疗表现。POC测试将提供与实验室测试相当的性能，使临床医生能够快速诊断心力衰竭，心脏病发作，血栓和肺炎，并将需要医院护理的患者转诊或调查并适当治疗社区中的其他潜在原因，改变护理的方式和地点，减少急诊入院，患者等待时间和医疗保健成本，同时改善患者预后。

Demand for emergency care is continuing to rise as the UK population gets older and chronic health conditions such as cardiovascular disease, COPD and diabetes become more prevalent. The NHS is assessing new ways to deliver urgent and ambulatory care in the community, allowing patients to be treated in local hospitals or at home, and establishing more cost effective and sustainable care models. A key challenge in rolling out these services is the lack of rapid access to lab-quality blood tests outside hospitals. Jupiter Diagnostics Limied has developed a state-of-the-art in vitro diagnostic (IVD) system to deliver low-cost, lab-quality point of care (POC) blood test results in just 10 minutes from a capillary blood sample. This project will develop a test panel to help clinicians to better assess and manage patients presenting with symptoms of breathlessness or chest pain – the most common emergency medical presentations. The POC test will deliver comparable performance to lab tests to enable clinicians to rapidly diagnose heart failure, heart attacks, clots and pneumonia, and refer patients in need of hospital care or investigate and appropriately treat other underlying causes in the community, changing how and where care is delivered, reducing emergency hospital admissions, patient waiting times and healthcare costs, whilst improving patient outcomes.