Clinical
Point-of-care strep testing for clinics
Testing where care happens removes the shipping, the waiting, and most of the reason to prescribe antibiotics just in case.
What point-of-care means
Point-of-care diagnostics are performed where the patient is being seen: pediatric offices, urgent care, school health clinics, and community settings. Nothing gets shipped to a reference laboratory, so the answer arrives while the patient is still in the room.
Why it matters for strep
Strep throat needs prompt detection. Delay means prolonged discomfort, a higher risk of complications, and antibiotics handed out just in case. Traditional laboratory workflows take 24 to 48 hours, which is precisely the window in which those compromises get made.
What SalivIQ brings to that setting
Non-invasive saliva collection, a result in as little as 22 minutes, no specialised training required, and molecular-level accuracy. The clinician detects group A Streptococcus during the visit and prescribes only when it is actually indicated.
The operational case
For clinic administrators the argument is not only clinical. Point-of-care testing reduces staff training requirements, cuts follow-up visits and repeat sampling, lowers spending on unnecessary antibiotics and outside lab work, and copes better with seasonal testing spikes.
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