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Publisher Summary This chapter highlights the applications and markets for biosensors in the 1990s. For many years, biosensors have been hailed as the solution to many analytical problems. There is general agreement that biosensors have the capacity to offer easy-to-use, cost-effective, and rapid analyses in a wide variety of operating environments. In reality, however, only a few biosensor products have emerged, and even fewer achieved mass-market commercial success. Biosensors enable simple, highly specific measurements to be carried out, both quickly and accurately, in complex matrices. Such devices can also be miniaturized, used continuously, and integrated into other systems, facilitating the processing and storage of electronically generated data. Fuelled by a series of technical advances, the in vitro diagnostics industry has completed a period of rapid growth. Centralized testing is one that is carried out in hospital or other specialized medical laboratories and represents the largest market area in in vitro diagnostics, whereas decentralized testing is carried out in the doctor's office, accident/emergency ward, operating theatre, intensive care ward, health center, pharmacy, ambulance, sports medicine clinic, etc. |
