At the 2015 AACC Annual Meeting, Invetech asked this seminal question to laboratory professionals: How do you see the Lab of the Future? The feedback revealed five core visions that will shape product development in the Lab of the Future—the Point of Care (POC) ecosystem, faster time to market for new products, workflow automation, connectivity and Internet of Things (IoT), and new enabling technologies.
Following the meeting, we started on a journey to explore each of these important topics, beginning with a look at the POC ecosystem today and thinking ahead to the future. We kicked off the discussion with a webinar hosted by AACC on the future of POC testing. We also published a white paper on best practices for POC product development, and Viewpoint articles on defining requirements and product specifications and POC scale-up production planning.