Reading the Standard Curve
After sixteen years between Asian and Western diagnostics, I am done pretending the old map still works. Here is the question this notebook exists to answer.
The IVD world stopped being a Western monologue. Two design philosophies now meet on the same lab bench — and nowhere more openly than in Mexico.
The Essays
- Nº 04Framework
How to Actually Read a Vendor
A working method for evaluating a diagnostics platform without letting the flag on the box decide for you. Seven questions, weighted to your own laboratory.
- Nº 03Field Notes
Mexico, Where the Philosophies Collide
Price-sensitive, clinically serious, and built on the comodato, the Mexican market turns every analyzer purchase into a multi-year stress test. Here is what it reveals.
- Nº 02Essay
Two Philosophies of the Analyzer
Asian and Western diagnostics are not separated by quality anymore. They are separated by what they choose to optimise — and that distinction is far more useful to a buyer.