Withings is launching U-Scan, the first hands-free home urine analysis lab. The device is a “miniaturized health lab that hygienically sits within any toilet bowl to unlock the wealth of health information in daily urine”. While we might take issue with the idea that anything sits hygienically in a toilet bowl, what they mean is that you’re freed from the mess and hassle of collecting and testing samples yourself.
The U-scan itself is a pebble-shaped reader, 90mm in diameter, fitted with a removable cartridge which contains a number of testing pods. When a sensor inside the device detects urine in the inlet, a pump moves the sample into a microfluidic circuit for analysis. Results are sent to the accompanying app via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.
Withings Health Solutions, is developing the U-Scan for medical markets. It has partnered with the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, where it was used to help plan follow-up treatment for patients with kidney stones. A second collaboration with the Institut Curie, for ovarian and bladder cancer patients, is also underway.
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