Advances in Smartphone-Based Point-of-Care Diagnostics : This paper reviews the state-of-the-art advances in smartphone-based point-of-care diagnostic technologies and their applications in medicine and biology.

• Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics is playing an increasingly important role in public health, environmental monitoring, and food safety analysis. Smartphones, alone or in conjunction with add-on devices, have shown great capability of data collection, analysis, display, and transmission, making them popular in POC diagnostics. In this article, the state-ofthe- art advances in smartphone-based POC diagnostic technologies and their applications in the past few years are outlined, ranging from in vivo tests that use smartphone’s built-in/external sensors to detect biological signals to in vitro tests that involves complicated biochemical reactions. Novel techniques are illustrated by a number of attractive examples, followed by a brief discussion of the smartphone’s role in telemedicine. The challenges and perspectives of smartphonebased POC diagnostics are also provided.

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Mobile medicine

point-of-care(POC) diagnostics

public health

smartphone

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