Point-of-care devices were originally designed to allow medical testing at or near the point of care by health-care professionals. Some point-of-care devices allow medical self-testing at home but cannot fully cover the growing diagnostic needs of eHealth systems that are under development in many countries. A number of easy-to-use, network-connected diagnostic devices for self-testing are needed to allow remote monitoring of patients' health. This Outlook highlights the essential characteristics of diagnostic devices for eHealth settings and indicates point-of-care technologies that may lead to the development of new devices. It also describes the most representative examples of simple-to-use, point-of-care devices that have been used for analysis of untreated biological samples.

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从现场护理测试到电子健康诊断设备 (eDiagnostics)。

护理点设备最初设计用于允许医疗保健专业人员在护理点或附近进行医疗测试。一些护理点设备允许在家进行医疗自我测试，但无法完全满足许多国家正在开发的电子医疗系统不断增长的诊断需求。需要一些易于使用、网络连接的自检诊断设备来远程监控患者的健康状况。本展望强调了用于电子医疗设置的诊断设备的基本特征，并指出了可能导致新设备开发的护理点技术。它还描述了用于分析未经处理的生物样品的易于使用的即时护理设备的最具代表性的示例。