The Lab in Your Pocket: Diagnostics Anywhere

Diagnosis no longer has to wait for a lab, a clinic, or a specialist. The Lab in Your Pocket: Diagnostics Anywhere examines how portable diagnostics bring testing closer to people—at home, in the field, and at the point of need.
This book takes an access-first perspective. It explores how miniaturized sensors, microfluidics, AI-assisted analysis, and mobile platforms turn complex tests into fast, usable results. The emphasis is not on replacing laboratories, but on extending their reach where time, distance, and infrastructure once limited care.
Readers are guided through real-world use cases: infectious disease screening, chronic condition monitoring, maternal health, and emergency response. The book highlights tradeoffs between speed and accuracy, convenience and reliability—and why design determines trust.
This book focuses on impact:
• How decentralized diagnostics reduce delay and inequity
• Why point-of-care testing changes clinical workflows
• Where accuracy matters more than speed
• How usability determines adoption
• Why access is a medical outcome
This book is for clinicians, public health leaders, engineers, and policymakers. If diagnosis should meet people where they are, this book explains how labs fit into pockets—and lives.