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BD Acquires Smartphone-Enabled at-Home Medical Test Provider Scanwell Health.

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US-based medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and company) (NYSE: BDX) has completed the acquisition of privately held smartphone-enabled at-home medical test provider Scanwell Health Inc., the company said.

BD collaborated with Scanwell to develop the app used with the recently launched BD Veritor At-Home COVID-19 Test, the first at-home COVID-19 test that uniquely uses a smartphone camera and app to capture and interpret results, eliminating the human subjectivity in other visually read at-home antigen tests.

Scanwell will become the foundational digital platform upon which BD plans to develop at-home diagnostic tests for a range of infectious diseases including COVID-19/influenza A+B, group A strep and additional menu for detecting infections and managing chronic disease.

The Scanwell app is a key differentiator in the market for at-home COVID-19 testing.

To date, no other company uses the phone's camera to capture the image of the test that is then analyzed and interpreted by the app.

Other COVID-19 home tests use smartphones as part of their process, but BD Veritor At-Home COVID-19 Test is the first and only test to use the smartphone as the analyzer to digitally interpret the test results and provide...

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