Case Study
Medical test results in minutes
Image courtesy of iStockphoto Medical test results in minutes NPL has helped Vivacta, a healthcare diagnostics company, to develop their point-of-care testing technology with a bespoke software analysis tool. Summary Vivacta's point-of-care test uses innovative sensor technology to collect and analyse a patient's blood sample, and diagnose certain health conditions, all in the space of a few minutes. This saves considerable time as the sample does not have to be sent off to a laboratory for testing, and allows for quicker diagnosis and treatment of the patient's health conditions. NPL helped Vivacta investigate a number of different sensor setups quickly, saving them considerable development time. NPL's analysis tool also helped Vivacta understand their system better, and provided an analy