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Point of Care Diagnostics - Market Adoption and Technology Trends
26 October - 27 October 2009
Point of Care Diagnostics - Market Adoption and Technology Trends


SAE Media Group's Point of Care Diagnostics conference is now in its 7th year - click below to view our 2010 event.

 



2009 Past Event Details:

The demand for point of care testing (POCT) is expected to increase by 80% over the next three years, representing a market of $18.7 billion by 2011.  Yet the challenges facing diagnostic manufacturers over adoption and uptake by clinicians and regulatory approval are still real.

SAE Media Group’s 6th annual conference on Point of Care Diagnostics will bring together industry experts and experience clinicians to discuss this exciting area of healthcare technology. Speakers will address the following topics:

  • Emerging and disruptive technologies
  • Clinical needs
  • Connectivity and patient pathways
  • Health service requirements
  • Market trends and dynamics
  • Regulatory affairs and compliance
  • Reimbursement and funding
  • Sally Hojvat, Director, Division of Microbiology Devices, Office of In-Vitro Diagnostic Device Evaluation, Food and Drug Administration 
  • Ian Barnes, National Clinical Lead for Pathology, Department of Health, UK

 

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Point of Care Glucose Testing - How Do We Measure Up, What Standards Apply and Where Are We Headed?

  • Understand the Sources of Error Affecting POCT Glucose
  • Understand the Ramifications of these Issues for the Lab, Clinician, and Patients
  • Understand the Impact of POCT Glucose Technology on Intensive Insulin Therapy
  • Define Areas of Discordance
  • Define The Emergence of New Technologies such as CGM, Invasive and Non-Invasive Technologies
  • How Do We Achieve Concordance?
  • Where Are We Headed?
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    9:45

    Point of Care Whole Blood Creatinine Testing - How Will Standardization Be Achieved?

  • Understand the Sources of Error Affecting POCT Creatinine
  • Understand the Ramifications of these Issues for the Lab, Clinician, and Patients
  • Understand the Impact of POCT Creatinine Technology in Radiology, Oncology, Transplant
  • Define Areas of Discordance
  • Define The Emergence of New Technologies
  • How Do We Achieve Concordance?
  • What's Next?
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    Newborn Screening Tests

  • Understand the Sources of Error Affecting Newborn Screening Tests
  • Define the pre-analytical factors that Affect Specimen Quality
  • How Does this Affect the Newborn screening Test Result
  • Define the basis for Discordance
  • How Do We Improve the Sensitivity and Specificity of these Highly Specialized Tests?
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    11:45

    Discussion

  • How Do We Achieve Concordance?
  • Where Are We Headed?
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    12:30

    Close of Workshop

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    David Huckle

    David Huckle, Chief Executive, Adams Business Associates

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    9:10

    OVERVIEW OF THE POC MARKET

    David Huckle

    David Huckle, Chief Executive, Adams Business Associates

  • Technology is no longer holding the industry back
  • Need for clinician involvement in development
  • Adoption and economic assessment
  • Future trends
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    9:50

    EXPERIENCES IN POC DEVELOPMENT AND MARKET UPTAKE

    David Watwood

    David Watwood, Sales Director, Inverness Medical UK

  • POC: the early years
  • The POC portfolio
  • Blockers to POC
  • Drivers for POC
  • The future
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    UPTAKE OF DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AT THE POC

    Richard Godfrey

    Richard Godfrey, Chief Executive, Balter Medical

  • Economic barriers to adoption
  • Clinician education and training
  • Professional and ethical paradigms
  • Use of market insight
  • Case study: optical diagnosis melanoma
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    11:40

    A FULLY INTEGRATED APPROACH TO POCT

  • Overview of how the introduction of POCT has been approached at the Royal Free
  • Case study 1: management of blood product use in theatres
  • Case study 2: cardiovascular risk stratification in hard to reach populations
     
  • Michael Thomas

    Michael Thomas, Clinical Director of Inflammation Services, Royal Free Hospital

    Susan Mallet

    Susan Mallet, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Free Hospital

    Devaki Nair

    Devaki Nair, Consultant Clinical Pathologist, Royal Free Hospital

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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    POCT: CLINICAL NEED AND PATHWAY REDESIGN

    Chris Price

    Chris Price, Visiting Professor in Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oxford

  • Home
  • Primary care
  • Pharmacy and walk-in clinics
  • Hospital
     
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    14:30

    NHS POLICY AND STRATEGY

    Ian Barnes

    Ian Barnes, National Clinical Lead for Pathology, Department of Health

  • Background
  • The Carter and Darzi reviews
  • Transforming pathology
  • Impact of POCT on clinical practice
     
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    15:10

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    PATIENT PATHWAYS AND CONNECTIVITY

    Fabrizio Mastrantonio

    Fabrizio Mastrantonio, International Marketing Manager, A Menarini Diagnostic

  • Present and future developments
  • POCT connectivity
  • Importance of connectivity
  • Patient empowerment with self-monitoring
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    16:20

    EUROPEAN REGULATORY AFFAIRS AND COMPLIANCE

    Petra Kaars-Wiele

    Petra Kaars-Wiele, Director International Regulatory Affairs and Affiliate Compliance, Abbott Laboratories, Germany

  • Update on current EU regulations
  • Update on relevant international regulations
  • Language requirements for POCT
  • Compliance requirements and consequences of noncompliance
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    17:00

    POC DIAGNOSTICS IN IMPROVING HEALTH SERVICES

    Anthony James

    Anthony James, Technology Adoption Associate, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

  • Creating value for the NHS
  • The real significance of evidence
  • The process of change in the NHS
     
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    17:40

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Eddie Blair

    Eddie Blair, Director, Integrated Medicines

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    9:10

    THE USE OF PARAMAGNETIC PARTICLES IN POCT TESTING

    Richard Luxton

    Richard Luxton, Director of the Institute of Bio-Sensing Technology, University Of The West Of England Bristol

  • Overview of paramagnetic particles
  • Magnetic manipulation of particles
  • Detection of magnetic material 
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    9:50

    Diagnostics for the Consumer Market

    Sarah Johnson

    Sarah Johnson, Principal Scientist, Swiss Precision Diagnostics

  • What are consumer diagnostics
  • The current market and how it is changing
  • Case study - pregnancy and ovulation category
    • Evolution of the category
    • How to design for the consumer
    • Selling to consumers
    • Getting it right - a case study on a new consumer diagnostic

       

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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    MARKET TRENDS AND DYNAMICS IN POCT

    Harry Glorikian

    Harry Glorikian, Managing Partner, Scientia Advisers

  • Market overview
  • Technology and customer overview
  • Adoption of POC
  • Strategies to maximise access to POCT
  • Key recommendations
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    11:40

    CONNECTIVITY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

    Jeffrey Du Bois

    Jeffrey Du Bois, Vice President, Medical & Scientific Affairs, Nova Biomedical

  • Why is POCT connectivity important?
  • New connectivity approaches - wireless, internet, and others
  • What's next - POL, mobile clinic, EMS, home?

     

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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    REGULATORY AFFAIRS AND COMPLIANCE IN THE US

    Sally Hojvat

    Sally Hojvat, Director, Division of Microbiology Devices, Office of In-Vitro Diagnostic Device Evaluation, FDA

  • Review of US regulations and an update of any recent policy changes 
  • The challenges of regulating newer POC technologies 
  • Adequacy of Quality Control measures and post-market surveillance
     
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    14:30

    POCT AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE

    John Clarkson

    John Clarkson, Chief Executive, Atlas Genetics

  • Target diseases: new and old
  • User requirements
  • Simplifying the technology: making the equipment user friendly
  • Reimbursement issues
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    15:10

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    THERANOSTICS FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES

    Till Bachmann

    Till Bachmann, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Biochip Research, University of Edinburgh

  • Targeting the host and the pathogen
  • Antibiotic resistance
  • Novel Technologies
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    16:20

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

    Eddie Blair

    Eddie Blair, Director, Integrated Medicines

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