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cord-288982-63ddlh20	Peeling, Rosanna W.	Diagnostics in a digital age: an opportunity to strengthen health systems and improve health outcomes	2015-11-09		.txt	text/plain	4391	216	44	Rapid point-of-care (POC) tests for infectious diseases can improve access to diagnosis and patient management, but the quality of these tests vary, quality of testing is often not assured and there are few mechanisms to capture test results for surveillance when the testing is so decentralised. In a digital age, it is possible to link data from diagnostic laboratories and POC test readers and devices to provide data on testing coverage, disease trends and timely information for early warning of infectious disease outbreaks to inform design or optimisation of disease control and elimination programmes. In the last decade, rapid point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests fulfilling the ASSURED criteria (Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User-friendly, Rapid and robust, Equipment-free and Deliverable) have become commercially available and are widely used for infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV and syphilis.	./cache/cord-288982-63ddlh20.txt	./txt/cord-288982-63ddlh20.txt