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Point-of-care devices for healthy consumers – a feasibility study

Point of care (POC) devices are small, portable instruments that perform diagnostic testing at the site of patient care, e.g. at the bedside. They may be useful in telemedicine because they have the potential to provide a rapid assessment of health status for a non-expert user. We are interested in the possible value of POC devices for longterm personal health monitoring of subjects at home. Internationally recognized organizations control the quality of POC devices and validate them before their introduction into service. For example, the Food and Drug Administration in the USA reviews medical devices and decides to approve or reject them, based partly on clinical trial data submitted by the manufacturers. We have investigated users’ attitudes towards the use of certain POC devices and their perceptions about the usability of the equipment.