Our solution – Infectious Disease Reader and IDA platform
IDR is a high-end application installed in a mobile device to capture data from lateral flow tests.
IDA is an intelligent and secure cloud based analysis platform with instant feedback to the user.
Current POC measurement devices are test-specific and usually do not have wireless connection to cloud services. Moreover, access to medical consultation and patient treatment following test result confirmation is often delayed due to heavy workload among healthcare professionals.
While developed markets, such as USA, are primarily challenged with escalating healthcare costs, developing countries face challenges with poor healthcare delivery infrastructure. However, in both developed and developing countries current centralized diagnostic services are slow, inefficient and expensive. Services must be de-centralized to address the fundamental problems in the escalating national healthcare budgets.
The main drawbacks of the current POC testing methods are:
- Limitations in diagnostics infrastructure leads to lack of Connectivity at Point of Care
- Bureaucracy, lack of healthcare providers (HCPs), and human error are barriers to reliable diagnostic verification
- High cost of diagnostics reduce access to best possible patient treatment
- Too often expensive and mono-functional hardware limits the benefits of integrated mobile solutions
- Many diagnostic manufacturers lack direct feedback from market
3 simple steps - more efficiency - less errors
The smart phone mobile reader application is used to capture and digitize lateral flow test data, while the IDA back end solution provides analysis, support and dynamic configuration for the supported lateral flow tests. With very minimal instructions even to untrained staff, the IDA IDR solution can be deployed to capture digitized diagnostic data. The data can be verified and digitalized from LFTs tests in 3 simple steps:
1) Take a test
User downloads the IDA application to a smartphone and takes a rapid diagnostic test.
2) READ THE TEST
User scans the test using the IDA application
3) ANALYZE RESULT
iSTOC integrates Point of Care diagnostics, machine vision, mobile technology and cloud computing
iSTOC has developed a disruptive mobile solution IDA (immediate diagnostics and analytics). The globally scalable end-to end solution has proven to be a powerful product and service, offering significant and innovative new business opportunities for iSTOC business partners and customers.
IDA mobile application allows the smartphone user to rapidly record outcome of LFTs by using the device camera. In addition to a digital storage of the measurement data, the IDA IDR mobile application provides a safely stored image of the LFT test outcome.
Variety of lateral flow tests are supported. New test types can be configured onto the system in just a matter of days. Currently the following tests are included:
COVID-19 | Malaria | Dengue | HIV | HAV | HBV | HCV
IDA Secure Cloud has a set of web applications and services that can be used through a standard web browser – using either a PC, Mac or tablet devices.
These services enable the healthcare professional at a central care facility to view any data created during a LFT scanning process. It allows the healthcare professional to collaborate in real time with the mobile application user.
The backend service provides tools for visualizing both test results and different activities performed within the service. This helps to further analyze the LFT test scans and provides the foundation for data analytics.
IDA Secure Cloud can be used to configure additional LFT tests. The IDA mobile application automatically synchronizes supported LFT test information. Automatic synchronization increases functionality without the need to deploy new version of the mobile application.
Any personally identifiable data stored to the IDA Secure Cloud is strongly encrypted. All data access services use SSL for encryption.
iSTOC IDA reader is more accurate than a human eye
Based on thorough international product validations and publications, IDA reader accuracy is better than test result assessment by visual inspection. Through semi-quantitative analysis the IDA reader provides additional and valuable diagnostic insights on for example viral load.
Summary of IDA benefits
iSTOC has developed a disruptive mobile solution IDA (immediate diagnostics and analytics). The globally scalable end-to end solution has proven to be a powerful product and service, offering significant and innovative new business opportunities for iSTOC business partners and customers.
- Immediate diagnostics without costly hardware setups – only a smartphone is necessary
- Web applications in the IDA Secure Cloud ensure real-time medical guidance back to the mobile application user
- No attachments – no additional hardware – no additional trainings or wires are required
- Seamless data management integration into client / stakeholder information systems
- Disease surveillance and real time epidemic alerts via interactive mapping
- Lateral flow test quality control and quality assurance