CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS OPPORTUNITIES FOR BIOSENSORS AND BIOELECTRONICS

The clinical diagnostic market represents a unique opportunity for the introduction of biosensors on a widespread commercial basis. To date, however, very few successful biosensors have been launched in this fi eld or any other, despite many promising ideas. The need for biosensor s in this field must be analyzed more critically, to assess in which d irection the developing biosensor technology can be most effectively a imed and which areas need a more focused approach from basic research in bioelectronics. The diagnostics market is already a highly competit ive field; from an industrial perspective, some of the critical issues that need to be taken into consideration when evaluating biosensor pr ojects are: costs per test, regulatory requirements, quality control, instrumentation design, and test parameter selection.