Corgenix to Combine Rapid Ebola Test With Fio’s Data System

Corgenix Medical and Fio are partnering to combine an Ebola rapid test with a mobile device that can analyze and upload results directly to a central data system.

Fio is adapting its Deki Reader to work with the Corgenix ReEBOV Antigen Rapid Test for the Ebola virus, which recently received emergency use authorization from the FDA. Combining the technologies will give suspected Ebola patients in the most remote, resource-deprived settings, access to automated test results, the groups said.

“The resulting technology will expand the capability to fight Ebola now and strengthen national health systems beyond the current crisis,” Fio chairman and CEO Michael Greenberg said.

Corgenix researchers in Sierra Leone have already started using smartphones to transmit images of rapid Ebola test results to the Fionet data system, giving governments and other organizations responding to the outbreak a way to track the disease in real time. — Kellen Owings