One of the most frustrating aspects of going to the doctor’s office is waiting for the lab results to come in – and knowing that there often isn’t much the doctor can do to treat you until those results are ready.
Middleton-based Lucigen Corp. is trying to take away the hassle of waiting for lab results – at least in the case of infectious diseases – through the development of an innovative point-of-care diagnostic platform. In other words, instead of sending a patient to the lab and waiting for up to two days for results, a doctor or nurse could administer a test in the office and get the results in about a half hour.
Read more from Mark Maley, public information manager at the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., in the new issue of BizTimes Milwaukee.
