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— In the latest episode of “WisBusiness: the Show,” Chris Yates of Abingdon Health USA discusses the company’s efforts to make rapid health tests more accessible.
“The way we achieve that is through supporting customers taking projects from idea all the way through to commercial success,” he said.
Yates is the chief operating officer for Abingdon Health, based in the U.K., and president of its American subsidiary that’s setting up shop in Madison. The company recently held a ribboncutting event to mark the opening of its facility in University Research Park.
“We’ve built within Abingdon all the different pieces of the jigsaw that you need to take an idea and transfer that through development, scale it up to manufacture and ultimately commercialize it,” Yates said.
The business is focused on “rapid lateral flow” tests, which are designed to detect various substances within a liquid sample. Examples include home pregnancy tests and COVID-19 rapid tests. These tests have been around since the mid-1980s, and Yates says they’re now widely used in the clinical market, animal health, plant pathogens and environmental testing.
The podcast highlights some of the company’s advances in this space, including a patented smartphone app that can read lateral flow tests and record results.
“If everyone recalls, you know, COVID tests and the plastic housings, we’ve done a lot of work innovating to replace that plastic housing with plant-based alternatives,” he said.
Watch the show here and find more episodes here.
— Froedtert ThedaCare Health is apologizing after a Milwaukee Police officer dressed in uniform and carrying a department-issued gun was denied care.
Twenty-five GOP lawmakers yesterday signed a letter to express outrage over the denial due to the office’s weapon.
“Denying care to a uniformed law enforcement officer in need of treatment is not only indefensible — it is dangerous,” the lawmakers wrote, adding it appeared to be a “troubling pattern of disrespect toward law enforcement.”
The letter demanded a public apology.
In response, the provider’s South Region President Bryce Gartland wrote that the Froedtert is committed “to ensuring a safe care and work environment for all who visit our facilities” and making clear that authorized security and law enforcement officers with weapons are permitted on its property.
“We are working to clarify our policies and educate our team members to help ensure this does not happen again,” Gartland wrote, adding the officer and the Milwaukee Police Department have been contacted directly following the incident.
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