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Good controls can help, but unless you can bring a phlebotomist on site to wherever the Theranos is you're going to face external consistency issues.

This is one thing Theranos is trying to change: enable and simplify access to your own medical data.

But that's one thing a successful theranos could do, and foreign policy is important at that.

You'd need many more people before you could start to draw a conclusion about the Theranos test versus a conventional test.

One guess I have about theranos, is that they are going to radically change healthcare in Africa.

It was here that the charm of Theranos became more obvious.

I'm skeptical that there is anything massively different between the technology Theranos uses and that used by existing clinical diagnostic labs.

Are you referring to blood tests, in general, or Theranos tests?

It does really seem that Theranos is a case of packaging the existing blood diagnostics and trying to capture a large part of the market.

But what's unique about theranos is that it is owned by Holmes,which seems very idealistic(as her main motivation here ), and her father worked for years helping African healthcare.

I didn't realize that Walgreens is already doing Theranos tests.

If you find one instance of a flaw in the Theranos it'll be easy to challenge it by talking about variations in blood chemistry, blood draws, time of day, etc.

Look at the list of Theranos partners/customers who have brought them to "cash-flow positive": hospitals, drug companies, insurance companies, and the US military.

Rather than a phlebotomist, a Walgreens pharmacy technician is easily able to perform the “nanotainer” blood collection steps, a testament to the simple and integrated workflow system developed by Theranos.

And all we know is that supposedly "Theranos' labs have been evaluated and deemed acceptable by drug companies, hospitals that work with them, Walgreens, and others"?

The “nanotainer” which collects only a few drops of blood via capillary action, has continuously been an attractive marketing tool for Theranos, inflating the nano-sized tube with a larger than life persona.

Theranos - Palo Alto Why do the doctors lab require 2 vials of blood for a lab test?

The closest companies in this category are Flatiron Health or maybe Theranos, but they are both just startups still proving themselves.

Theranos reports being cash-flow positive, with customers in hospitals, drug companies, and the US military (in addition to their retail blood testing).