The acquisition of LumiraDx’s Point of Care technology received all required antitrust and regulatory clearances. LumiraDx’s transformative Point of Care solution will complement Roche’s diagnostics portfolio across Clinical Chemistry, Immunochemistry, Coagulation and Molecular, and across multiple disease areas. By integrating LumiraDx, Roche will further its ambition to deliver decentralised solutions that expand global access to testing in primary care settings worldwide.

The availability of CRP blood testing is important in emergency medicine to ensure the relevance of the antibiotic therapy prescription. Its use in decentralized laboratory testing requires comparing the methods to the laboratory reference technique. The LumiraDx TM CRP test is a microfluidic immunoassay to quantify CRP levels in whole blood and plasma samples in 4 minutes.

The global SARS-COV2 pandemic has profoundly changed the organization of healthcare services and regional hospital groups. Delocalized laboratory testing has quickly adapted to three challenges. It was first necessary to respond to the growing demand for ABG testing for “ephemeral resuscitation” and the management of respiratory distress. Then came the time for mass viral detection. Unlike the Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT), decentralized laboratory testing could offer reliable, rapid tests in under 5 minutes, that were traceable and that met the quality criteria (Rapid and Connectable Point-of-Care COVID-19 Coulon et al. Diagnostics 2023,13,3508). Finally, the resurgence of COVID epidemic waves with influenza or RSV epidemics required the development of combined antigen tests.