News Medical: Quest Diagnostics introduces digital cognitive assessment tool to help physicians assess patients with dementia
Quest Diagnostics introduces digital cognitive assessment tool to help physicians assess patients with dementia
Diagnostics are the most important tools that empower the health workforce in the identification of diseases or health conditions. They allow the initiation of treatments in order to avoid further complications and costly treatments for patients.
First digital testing technology from diagnostics leader is designed to help primary care physicians and ACOs improve the detection and monitoring of patients with dementias such as Alzheimer's ...
The tool, CogniSense, is intended to remedy limitations of traditional paper-based assessment, including the lack of objective and easily trackable data over time and the integration of electronic ...
To address the lack of access to tests and testing services in multiple countries, WHO since 2018 has published a yearly essential diagnostics list (EDL), a basket of recommended in vitro diagnostics that should be available at point-of-care and in laboratories in all countries to increase timely and life-saving diagnoses. The latest edition, published today, includes WHO-recommended COVID-19 ...
The Landscape analysis of commercially available and pipeline in vitro diagnostics for fungal priority pathogens focuses on commercially available diagnostic products and pipeline diagnostic products for invasive fungal diseases (IFDs) and on the identifiable gaps.
Diagnostics are medical devices that provide information about diseases, physiological status, or health conditions in medicine and public health, with any of the following test purposes: screening, detection, prevention, surveillance, diagnosis or aid to diagnosis, monitoring, prediction, investigation, prognosis, or staging.
In vitro diagnostics (IVDs) are tests that can detect disease, conditions and infections. In vitro simply means ‘in glass’, meaning these tests are typically conducted in test tubes and similar equipment, as opposed to in vivo tests, which are conducted in the body itself.