Home Healthcare Diagnostics | MD Microscopes International

General Description
A patent pending technology will enable home healthcare diagnostics for everyone, reducing primary healthcare costs and increasing healthcare availability. Rural communities, the elderly, the military, veterans, and families will have the conveyance of low cost diagnostics in their home. Through the convergence of old and new technologies, diagnostic tests can now be run anywhere in the world, in a variety of environments, without any skill. For the first time ever, the full array of morphological (e.g., cell count, hematology, white cell differential, bacteria, fluorescent markers, tissue sample, etc.) and diagnostic tests (e.g., immunological, protein, hormonal, chemical, genetic, etc.) on the same drop of blood (or body fluid) at wavelength limited resolution and fully automated, can be run by a child on a USB plug-and-play system. The system is mobile, can be USB or battery powered, is the size of an external hard drive and has an overnight FedEx shipping weight of 3.5 lbs. The system receives a disposable carrier having a demographically or geographically derived matrix of 5-100 tests – demographically derived may focus on age, combat situations, exposure expectations; geographically derived may focus on a combination of demographics along with the unique issues associated with the location. A sample is added, no pre-processing, and placed in the unit for automated analysis. In the US it is expected to reduce primary health care costs by at least 50%; and to be sold in chain stores (e.g., Wal-Mart, Walgreens, etc.).

Technical Description
The Home Healthcare Diagnostics provides fully automated wavelength limit analysis, bright field and fluorescence, in a mobile USB plug-and-play device. This fundamental advance in technology is applicable across a multitude of applications. In one application, a carrier is inserted without pre-processing for healthcare diagnostics, chemical assays, immunoassays and biological assessments. Other uses include all fully automated microscopy needs and applications; genetic, microbiology, bacteriology, virology, etc. The full automation enables the data to be transmitted to experts anywhere in the world and remote from the test site.

Evaluation Criteria

THROUGHPUT:

2 minutes or less for detection
Multiple samples, multiple tests/sample per run
The system could easily be adapted into a fully automated system
Device or system is intended for multiple detection assays
0-1 solutions, buffer, eluents, and/or reagents
1 component
No set-up of the system is required for set-up
1-2 steps are required for detection

LOGISTICS:

Very brief (minutes-hours) training and minimal technical skills
Approximately the size of a toaster
Between 1 and 5 kg
Satellite, wireless and wired connections are available
System or device uses batteries
1-2 hours battery life

OPERATIONS:

Can be used from < -21°C to > 42°C (All temperatures)
Components must be stored at room temperature (27°C)
Performance is not influenced by relative humidity
Results can be viewed in real-time
The system could easily be adapted into a fully autonomous system
The system software is open and available for modification
The system hardware is open and available for modification

DETECTION:

Possible the system could receive 510K clearance, no current efforts at this time
Possible the system could receive FDA approval, no current efforts at this time
Less than 50 µL
Add on capability that is full or semi-automated for spore lysis

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