Point-of-Care (PoC) Technologies for Health Care

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue focused around Point-of-Care (PoC) technologies for health care applications. PoC sensors play a vital role in advancing health care and can deliver health equity across the globe. Many infectious diseases remain the leading cause of mortality around the world. Diagnosing disease at its onset will have a critical impact in timely administering the therapeutic interventions that could result in saving patients’ life. The availability of PoC biosensors can have a significant impact for early patient stratification. PoC technologies for personalized diagnostics could drastically reduce the time to appropriate treatment, considerably increase survival rates, and save billions of taxpayer dollars spent in healthcare systems around the world. Theranostics enabled by advancements in microfluidics and micro–nano sensing technologies and their integration with clinical data to develop predictive computational systems for individualized patient stratification can be an important part of the solution. This is one of the key focus areas of this Special Issue, which will feature new innovative PoC technologies and biosensors to address emerging challenges in global healthcare. We are seeking original research articles and perspectives highlighting PoC sensors and their utility in multifaceted clinical settings. Articles with a focus on sensor validation in clinical studies are particularly welcome.

Dr. Umer Hassan
Guest Editor

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• Point-of-Care sensors
• Micro-Nano technologies
• Microfluidics
• Multi-modal sensing architectures
• Disease diagnostics and management
• Longitudinal patient monitoring
• Sensor integration with machine learning
• Whole Blood, Urine, Tear, Saliva Biomarkers
• Multiplexing technologies
• Global Health
• Environmental health sensors
• HIV/ AIDS, Cancer, Sepsis, Trauma, etc