Home Biological Testing Kit with Optical Reader
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional biological sample testing is limited to healthcare facilities, restricting access and leading to inefficient healthcare practices and poor health outcomes due to the need for consumers to travel for testing and wait for results.
Innovation Solution
A non-healthcare setting kit that includes a mobile application, a collection container, a cartridge, and a reader, allowing for clinical laboratory-quality testing to be performed directly in the home or non-healthcare facilities, enabling rapid and convenient diagnosis from symptom to treatment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If testing is performed in traditional healthcare facilities, then testing infrastructure and expertise are available, but consumer access is limited and waiting time is extended
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the traditional centralized testing function into distributed home testing units. Each home testing kit contains a collection container, cartridge, and reader that can independently perform testing, segmenting the monolithic healthcare facility testing function into numerous autonomous micro-laboratories throughout consumers' homes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables consumers to perform biological sample testing independently at home without requiring healthcare provider involvement. The automated reader performs sample analysis, and the mobile application delivers results directly to the consumer, eliminating the need for professional operator intervention and significantly reducing access barriers and waiting time.
2Reliability
If testing is centralized in healthcare facilities, then quality control is maintained, but healthcare efficiency is reduced and patient outcomes are poor
Solution Approach 1:
The reader device is designed as a universal platform that can perform multiple types of biological sample testing through interchangeable cartridges. This multi-functionality allows a single device to replace multiple specialized laboratory instruments while maintaining quality standards through standardized protocols and automated analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms the parameters of testing delivery by changing the location from centralized facilities to distributed homes, changing the time scale from days to hours, and changing the operational mode from manual to automated. These parameter changes collectively improve both quality control through automation and healthcare efficiency through rapid turnaround.
3Measurement precision
If consumers travel to healthcare facilities for testing, then professional testing environment is provided, but time loss and inconvenience increase
Solution Approach 1:
The portable reader and mobile application serve as intermediaries that bring laboratory-quality testing capabilities directly to the consumer's home environment. This intermediary system bridges the gap between professional testing standards and home-based convenience, eliminating the need for travel while maintaining measurement precision through automated analysis and standardized protocols.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enables consumers to receive test results within hours, improving health outcomes and patient satisfaction by providing convenient, efficient, and accurate biological sample testing outside traditional healthcare settings.
Implementation Method 1
a light source that directs light through the first optical window of the reaction chamber, a light detector that detects the light within the reaction chamber
Data Source
AI summary
A kit for diagnosing a biological sample from a user is disclosed. The kit includes a mobile application that may run on a mobile device, a collection container for the biological sample, a cartridge that docks with the collection container and a reader that docks with the cartridge and that optically reads the biological sample.