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Transforming healthcare together with you. The right answers at the right time.
More diagnostic choice to bridge the gap in the way we care
We believe Point of Care (POC) testing has the power to transform healthcare, ensuring every patient receives the time and resources they need for the care they deserve. As a scientific leader and healthcare pioneer, we continuously advance diagnostics to provide more choice wherever it is needed. Pave the way to more sustainable, accessible, and patient-centric care with our ever-evolving, comprehensive portfolio of Point of Care solutions.
Our POC solutions bridge the gap in diagnostics, empowering you across all settings to make a difference in disease areas where prevention and management matter most.
Coordinate your POC testing services efficiently with our trusted, high-performing, and future-focused diagnostic Point of Care devices, platforms, digital products and services, and bring accurate and reliable diagnostics closer to patients.
When you work with us, you gain a trusted partner by your side, accompanying you on every step of your journey to transform healthcare together—with the right answers at the right time.
Reliable, actionable insights for faster decision-making and improved treatment along the continuum of care
Help transform healthcare for every single patient and the global community with our extensive Point of Care solution portfolio. By placing immediate, reliable, and actionable insights directly at the fingertips of doctors and nurses, our solutions empower faster diagnoses and more informed treatment decisions when and where they are needed most.
- Supporting healthcare changemakers in prevention, early diagnosis and the continuous monitoring of disease to improve patient outcomes.
- Enabling high-quality, sustainable care for individuals as well as improving population health.
- Expanding access to healthcare—giving everyone the answers and care they deserve.
Clinical chemistry and immunoassay Point of Care solutions for various healthcare settings.
Point of Care coagulation testing solutions you can trust for both professional settings and patient self-testing.
A comprehensive, agile, and flexible collection of digital solutions that empowers your decentralized diagnostic network and drives operational excellence.
High-performing, connected glucose Point of Care testing for professional settings and all patient populations.
Gold standard PCR technology at the Point of Care for near patient testing in primary care and hospital settings.
Point of Care urinalysis solutions you can trust for both professional and home care settings.
Benefits of Point of Care solutions
Make a difference in areas where the prevention and management of diseases matter most
- Enable rapid diagnosis and treatment: Point of Care testing has been found to increase the number of patients discharged in a timely manner, expedite triage of urgent but non-emergency patients, and decrease delays to treatment initiation, helping to reduce the burden in the emergency department (ED).1
- Support improved patient outcomes with early triage: The use of POC Troponin T test results in pre-hospital settings helps clinicians to identify patients with a non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and initiate the appropriate treatment sooner.2,3
- Encourage fast decision-making: Molecular POC testing solutions deliver lab-like results for Influenza A/B and RSV in 20 minutes (compared to 24h for nucleic acid amplification testing) helping clinicians quickly identify and isolate infected patients and potentially reduce time to treatment.4
- Provide clinical decision support: Empowering doctors with on-the-spot insights to differentiate bacterial from viral infections. Evidence shows POC testing reduces unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions by up to 36% in respiratory tract infections, helping combat resistance.5
Empower your practice to enhance accessibility everywhere
- Enhance accessibility: Availability of adequate quality POC diagnostic tests in resource-limited settings essentially increases access to POC testing and helps improve healthcare.6
- Democratize access to testing: Empowering healthcare professionals and non-professionals to deliver diagnostics, fostering patient autonomy, promoting equity, and bolstering public health in resource-limited settings.7
- Impact future care delivery: Connected POC solutions have been shown to play a crucial role in enabling remote diagnostics and monitoring, particularly through telehealth platforms.8,9
Use the potential of our solutions to change healthcare for the better
- Enable fast results for timely treatment decisions: Fast Point of Care testing results have been shown to enable diagnosis and treatment in one visit and reduce follow-ups, especially helpful in areas with limited healthcare access.10
- Increase patient compliance and satisfaction: The speed and convenience offered by POC testing empowers patients to follow treatment plans through real-time health insights, boosting adherence and satisfaction.11 Evidence shows the implementation of POC testing increases adherence to testing in patients with diabetes from 24% to 85% with a significant improvement in outcomes and higher levels of patient satisfaction versus laboratory testing.12
- Help improve outcomes with frequent disease monitoring: Research provides strong evidence that frequent disease monitoring can significantly lower mortality rates and hospitalizations in patients with cardiovascular diseases.13 Additionally, for individuals with diabetes, POC testing led to a 125% increase in diabetes patients achieving optimal glycemic control, while the number of patients with very poor glycemic control was halved.14
Simplify your life through a smoother, more efficient work experience
- Reduce burden on healthcare staff: Evidence suggests digital health tools can help alleviate burnout in nurses by supporting them with workflow technologies.15 These tools simplify routine tasks, improve workflow management, and even assist with monitoring patient symptoms and triage through online diagnostics and symptom checkers.
- Enable efficient lab control: navify® POC digital solutions enable efficient lab control by providing a comprehensive view of Point of Care operations, facilitating improved device management, data analysis, and personalized insights. It also helps ensure compliance by automating processes related to training, certification, and documentation for accreditation, staying ahead of regulatory requirements.
- Unify data and extend oversight: Extend reach beyond your immediate diagnostic network to wider community healthcare settings through the integrated connectivity of Point of Care devices from Roche and other third parties. Centralize your decentralized data to gain visibility into your Point of Care network, uncovering insights to prevent and swiftly resolve issues that might delay the delivery of results.
- Make information available quickly: The Measurement of Uncertainty (MoU) dashboard in navify® POC Analytics can reduce the time spent on MoU calculations by 86% while ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and compliance with ISO 15189:2022 standards.16
Help tackle healthcare's economical challenges
- Help provide overall cost savings: The implementation of Point of Care testing has shown to bring substantial savings of up to 25% across different settings.17
- Facilitate reduced hospital stays: Early detection of infectious diseases through POC testing can shorten the mean length of a hospital stay for infectious diseases by up to 34% and result in an equal reduction in bed occupancy and other resources.18
- Reduce referral rates: Ruling out heart failure in primary care has been shown to reduce referrals to specialists and the requirement for more advanced diagnostic interventions by 25%.19
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References
- Rooney KD, Schilling UM. Point-of-care testing in the overcrowded emergency department – can it make a difference? Critical Care. 2014;18(6):692.
- Stengaard C et al. .Quantitative point-of-care troponin T measurement for diagnosis and prognosis in patients with a suspected acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol. 2013;112: 1361-1366.
- Rasmussen MB et al. Predictive value of routine point-of-care cardiac troponin T measurement for prehospital diagnosis and risk-stratification in patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction. Eur Heart J. 2017; Acute Cardiovascular Care1–10.
- Yin et al. Clinical impact of the rapid molecular detection of RSV and influenza A and B viruses in the emergency department. PLoS ONE. 2022; 17(9).
- Cooke J et al. Narrative review of primary care point-of-care testing (POCT) and antibacterial use in respiratory tract infection (RTI). BMJ Open Respiratory Research. 2015;2:e000086.
- Kuupiel et al. Supply chain management and accessibility to point-of-care testing in resource-limited settings: a systematic scoping review. BMC Health Services Research. 2019;19:519.
- Kuupiel et al. Improving the Accessibility and Efficiency of Point-of-Care Diagnostics Services in Low and Middle-Income Countries: Lean and Agile Supply Chain Management. Diagnostics. 2017; 7, 58.
- Telehealth.HHS.gov. Telehealth and remote patient monitoring. [Internet; cited 2023 May 11]. Available from: https://telehealth.hhs.gov/providers/preparing-patients-for-telehealth/telehealth-and-remote-patient-monitoring.
- Mayoclinic.org. Telehealth: Technology meets health care. [Internet; cited 2022 June 18]. Available from: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/in-depth/telehealth/art-20044878.
- El-Osta et al. Does use of point-of-care testing improve cost-effectiveness of the NHS Health Check programme in the primary care setting? A cost-minimisation analysis. BMJ Open. 2017;7:e015494.
- Patzer KH et al. Implementation of HbA1c Point of Care Testing in 3 German Medical Practices: Impact on Workflow and Physician, Staff, and Patient Satisfaction. 2018; J Diabetes Sci Technol 12(3):687-694.
- Al Hayek AA et al. Assessment of patient satisfaction with on-site point-of-care hemoglobin A1c testing: An observational study. Diabetes. 2021; Ther 12, 2531–2544.
- Zile MR et al. Prognostic Implications of Changes in N‐Terminal Pro‐B‐Type Natriuretic Peptide in Patients With Heart Failure.. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2016; 68(22):2425-2436.
- Motta LA et al. Point-of-care testing improves diabetes management in a primary care clinic in South Africa. Prim Care Diabetes. 2017;11(3):248-253.
- Himms.org. Alleviating Nurse Burnout with Digital Health Tools. [Internet; cited 2020 Apr 7]. Available from: https://www.himss.org/resources/alleviating-nurse-burnout-digital-health-tools.
- Roche Diagnostics Ltd. Data on file.
- John AS, Price CP. Economic evidence and point-of-care-testing. Clin Biochem Rev 2013;34(2):61–74.
- Gkika et al. Can point-of-care testing shorten hospitalization length of stay? An exploratory investigation of infectious agents using regression modelling. Health Informatics Journal 2019; Vol. 25(4) 1606–1617.
- Bayes-Genis A, Rosano G. Unlocking the potential of natriuretic peptide testing in primary care: a roadmap for early heart failure diagnosis. Eur J of Heart Fail. 2023; 25, 1181–1184.