Poing of Care Testing (POCT), also known as quick clinical diagnosticis and rapid medical diagnostics, performed at the patient's bedside or at the doctor's office, allows physicians to diagnose patients more rapidly than traditional laboratory-based testing.

Rapid results can enable better patient management decisions, improved patient outcomes, and a reduction in the overall cost of health care.

As laboratory testing devices become increasingly smaller and easier to use, lab tests can now be performed more frequently at the point of care (patient's home or doctor's office). Familiar POCT tests are blood glucose kits, pregnancy test kits, and urine dipstick tests.

• Tests are fast, reliable, simple and easy to use technology
• Tests can be performed at the patient's home or at the doctor's office
• Faster tests results and no need to go to the diagnostic center.
• Since diagnosis takes few minutes therefore decisions can be made immediately

Hospitals: Decentralized hospital testing of selected parameters.

Primary Care: Physicians private office.

Patient self testing: Evolving treatment model. (eg. blood glucose monitoring)

The technology now exists to enable a wide range of diagnostic tests to be provided at the point of care.

The need for such testing clearly exists and will increase as the practice of medicine changes and individuals take greater responsibility for their health.

Rapid provision of results can facilitate better clinical decision making, improved patient adherence, and greater patient satisfaction, all of which lead to improved clinical outcomes.