Biomedical

Taking Healthcare to the Patient

An aging population and over-stretched health care resources are fueling demand for advanced technology solutions to aid in diagnosis, speed biomedical testing and provide the portability needed to go mobile and serve remote areas.

Too often, patients must travel to a specialized laboratory for tests that cannot be performed at their doctor’s office. In underserved and remote areas, it is often difficult for the elderly and infirm to reach their health care provider.

What is needed are small, ruggedized testing units that provide local access to information and speed up testing, by screening samples prior to a central lab or replacing the lab test entirely. Portable technology is also crucial to reaching patients in remote areas where access to sufficient healthcare may be lacking.

Enablence’s Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) technology offers the superior functionality and ruggedness demanded by this market. Nearly all biophotonic applications require a light source, some wavelength filtering of light, and light detection. All of these functions are routinely implemented on our PLC platforms. We can provide optical filtering, light sources, and detectors, all on a compact and rugged chip that can be mass produced.

Complete lab-on-chip solutions are typically the main goal in biomedical applications. Through early collaboration with a leading Canadian university, Enablence has developed modules for the excitation and detection of common flourophores used to tag biological reactions. Further integration with microfluidics has now increased the functionality of this platform to allow complete lab-on-chip solutions.

To learn more about how Enablence can help you customize a ruggedized solution that will set a new standard for biomedical testing and mobile healthcare requirements, please request a consultation.