The test will begin shipping next week with plans of using the product by the end of the month.
Point-of-care testing means results are delivered in patient care settings like hospitals & urgent care instead of sending samples to a lab. With today’s authorization, there is now an option for testing at the point of care, giving patients access to more immediate results.Currently, samples are sent to a centralized lab where results can take days.
Azar added that “with the development of point of care diagnostics, Americans who need tests will be able to get results faster than ever before. More and more options for reliable, convenient testing are becoming available at an incredibly rapid pace, thanks to the hard work of our FDA team and the ingenuity of American industry.
“Point-of-care testing means that results are delivered to patients in the patient care settings, like hospitals, urgent care centers and emergency rooms, instead of samples being sent to a laboratory,” Hahn added.
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