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Laboratory is testing is necessary at several time points during a patient's disease as well as for prophylaxis, risk assessment, and for therapy monitoring of chronic diseases. In most cases, this testing will take place by sending the patient's specimen from the attending physician to the medical laboratory. However, with the advent of point of care testing as well as with the self-empowerment of patients [1] and the availability of some disruptive technologies, a certain competition has arisen for the analysis of patient specimen. This new situation is rather challenging for the patients and the medical laboratories. First, the definition of healthcare and the legal regulation which are necessary to protect patients' integrity -despite being universal -are rather complex and even differ between countries. Most of the novel techniques in DTC use internet technologies in which country borders become invisible. Related to the world-wide marketplace of laboratory tests are attempts to blur the difference between laboratory testing for healthcare and for lifestyle purposes. The first being highly limited and regulated, the latter with very little regulation to allow free trade and th

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2017

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)