The BioFire FilmArray System easily integrates into clinical laboratories, allowing for relevant molecular testing around the clock. It streamlines laboratory workflow and maximizes productivity in an easy, fast, and comprehensive way.
By using a molecular syndromic approach and a broad test menu, the FilmArray can better detect and identify the infectious agent with just one easy test. Because of its ease-of-use, the same standard of care can be provided 24/7, removing the need to delay or send out certain tests.
Simply prepare a BioFire FilmArray test with two minutes of hands-on time without precise measuring or pipetting. The sample is automatically analyzed and results are reported in an easy-to-read format.
The BioFire FilmArray Panels have a run-time of about one hour, allowing labs to provide answers to physicians in a clinically relevant time frame.
Comprehensive syndromic testing allows labs to streamline their workflow and provide answers to physicians with an increased diagnostic yield. This comprehensive test system helps to detect co-infections as well as uncommon pathogens.
The BioFire FilmArray System offers unmatched ease-of-use with just two minutes of hands-on time. Training is minimal and the software walks you through the entire process. Watch the video to see the BioFire FilmArray System in action.
Culbreath K, Petti CAExciting, new technologies to detect infectious diseases have emerged with greater accuracy and faster times to result in hopes to improve provision of care and outcomes. The challenge, however, often lies not in the technical performance of tests, but in defining the specific advantages of new methods over the present gold standards in a practicable way, and understanding how advanced technologies will prompt changes in medical and public health decisions. With rising costs to deliver care, enthusiasm for innovative technologies should be balanced with a comprehensive understanding of clinical and laboratory ecosystems and how such factors influence the success or failure of test implementation. Selecting bloodstream infections as an exemplar, we provide a six-step model for test adoption that will help clinicians and laboratorians better define the value of a new technology specific to their clinical practices.
The BioFire FilmArray pouch stores all the necessary reagents for sample preparation, reverse transcription-PCR, PCR, and detection in a freeze-dried format. Just inject hydration solution and an unprocessed sample, and the BioFire FilmArray System takes care of the rest.
During a run, the BioFire FilmArray System extracts and purifies all nucleic acids from the unprocessed sample. Next, the FilmArray performs a nested multiplex PCR. During the first stage, the system performs a single, large volume, multiplexed reaction. Finally, individual, single-plex second-stage PCR reactions detect the products from the first-stage PCR.
Using endpoint melting curve data, the BioFire FilmArray software automatically analyzes the result for each target. When the run is complete, the software reports whether or not each pathogen is detected in the sample. This information is printed in an automated response at the end of the test run.
BioFire’s syndromic testing surveillance system, BioFire Syndromic Trends, provides a real-time display of the respiratory pathogens detected by a portion of BioFire customers running BioFire FilmArray System tests in the US. De-identified results from the diagnostic tests are sent directly to a cloud-based database that automatically syncs and displays metrics on the BioFire Syndromic Trends website. The data are updated daily, and present a national view of pathogen prevalence in the US. BioFire Syndromic Trends demonstrates that it is possible to achieve the goal of comprehensive real-time monitoring of infectious disease while still preserving patient privacy.
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