A.S.S.U.R.E.D. is a truly amazing framework to think about diagnostics.
The Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User-friendly, Rapid and robust, Equipment-free, Deliverable to end-users (A.S.S.U.R.E.D.) criteria for point-of-care diagnostics were originally developed in 2003 by the World Health Organization (WHO) to guide affordable test development for resource-limited settings which lacked access to laboratories for population-scale diagnostics.
The A.S.S.U.R.E.D. proposal simplified something the industry had always known but had struggled to articulate: a positive or negative result was not enough. For a diagnostic test to make a difference, it has to identify disease, simply, quickly, reliably, and affordably, for anybody, anywhere.
It has to be a test of record, that patients, professionals, and providers can trust and act upon…
