The new frontiers of diagnostics, such as personalized medicine, patient domiciliation, precision agriculture and food control in every point of the supply chain, requires new analysis methods based on rapid, easy, transportable and economic methods, maintaining a reliability standard at laboratory level. PoC (Point of Care) summarizes this new concept of monitoring. The analysis is performed where they are needed, a bed, a house, a clinic, a factory or a field. POC biochemical analysis are challeging, but the potential impact is enormous. LOCs, Laboratory on Chips, are currently enjoying a lot of interest in the field of diagnostics. LOCs are glass or polymer devices in which biological protocols are performed in a few square centimeters. There are several applications, but substantially the three main categories are cell sorting, genomic analysis (DNA, RNA) and immuno-enzymatic analysis.

EliChip^TM fits in this latter context. EliChip^TM is an innovative system for performing POC enzyme immunoassays, based on a disposable LoC card and a reader for handling reagents and reading the results.

EliChip^TM allows non-specialized personnel to perform quantitative low-cost analysis on single sample.

The validity of the method and its feasibility have been demonstrated with an alpha prototype. EliChip^TM is ready for the industrialization.