Point of Care Testing: Innovation on the Move
From Nanotechnology to Personalized Medicine

Monday, October 22, 2007 
at 
The Princeton Club of New York
located at
15 West 43rd Street (b/w Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
New York, New York

Presentations:

Keynote Speaker James Nichols, Ph.D., DABCC, FACB Tufts University School of Medicine; Bay State Medical Center

"Integrating Point of Care Testing in Healthcare Facilities"

• POC testing at a regional medical center.
• Integration of POC testing program in health care facility.
• Distinction between POC and over the counter (home) testing.
• Deciding factors in determining which tests to add to one's POC menu.
• Justification, costs and budget for introducing a new test.

Richard Egan, Ph.D. Nanogen, Inc.

"Bringing Advanced Diagnostics to the Bedside"

• Designing a third-generation POC system. 
• Low-cost fluorescent reader with internal standard.
• Positive sample ID.
• Making the complex simple; sample processing. 
• Improving performance of POC assays.

Kent Lewandrowski, M.D., Ph.D. Mass General; Harvard Medical School; Editor-in-Chief: Point of Care: The Journal of Near Patient Testing Technologies

“Implementing Point of Care Testing to Improve Patient Outcomes in the Emergency Department”

• Implementing point of care testing to improve patient outcomes in the emergency department. 
• Defining and measuring clinical and operational outcomes.
• Selecting the test menu to improve patient care.
• Strategies for implementation: satellite lab to true point of care.

Arnd Kaldowski, Ph.D. Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics

"Point of Care Industry Overview and Future Prospects"

• Acquisitions in the point of care sector.
• Integration of acquisitions into overall healthcare solutions.
• Point of care market demand.
• New technology platforms for point of care testing.
• New arenas for point of care testing.

Larry Kricka, Ph.D., FACB University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

"The Future Is Now: The Role of Technological Innovation and The Impact of Molecular Diagnostics and Microarrays on POC"

• Fail-safes and error prevention technologies.
• How do we assure the right patient is tested?
• How do we assure the test results are accurate and get to the right chart/record?
• What new testing technologies are on the horizon and beyond?
• Increased complexity: impact of molecular diagnostics and arrays on POC.

Joseph Dooley, Ph.D., DABCC, FACB Editor-in-Chief, TriMark Publications, LLC

"Business Changes in the Point of Care Testing Sector: What’s Happening and Why"

• Business changes directing the medical industry: how will they adapt? 
• The global market size: how big is it now and how fast will it grow?
• U.S. versus rest of the world.
• The key players: who are they and what are their hot new product.
• What is propelling the SOP revolution?

Harry Glorikian Managing Partner, Scientia Advisors

"Point of Care Diagnostics and Technology"

• Assessing the POC market drivers and bottlenecks.
• Discussing the potential benefits of the POC market.
• Establishing the current total market size and future growth of the POC market.
• Providing strategic recommendations for near-term business opportunities.
• Assessing current commercial uses of the POC market.

Bob Kunkler VP of Business Development, Abbott Point of Care (i-STAT)

"Point of Care Testing with the Abbott i-STAT"

• Trends in healthcare and their impact on point of care testing. 
• Role in protocols and process improvement efforts.
• Consumer-driven healthcare and the movement of care closer to the consumer.
• Point of care testing’s impact on the value of diagnostics.

Sheldon Campbell, M.D., Ph.D. Yale School of Medicine

"Teaching Point of Care to Our Next Generation of Physicians"

• Increasing impact of point of care devices on care in the coming decades. 
• Are clinicians ready to manage outpatient POC programs?
• Who has the directional responsibility for inpatient POC programs?
• What the medical students should be taught.
• Barriers to teaching medical students POC.