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CHICAGO , July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Urgent healthcare problems were addressed at the 2022 American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) meeting of lab professionals and IVD vendors in Chicago .  Kidney disease, drugs of abuse, hematology and liver disease were among areas of new product development and studies.

Medical market research firm Kalorama Information (www.kaloramainformation.com) notes there were 331 contract manufacturers, 42 lab IT solution companies, 326 reagent distributors, and 252 lab service companies at the AACC meeting, in addition to well-known suppliers such as Roche, Abbott, QuidelOrtho, Beckman, and Hologic.  Kalorama Information analysts attended sessions and observed trends at the AACC meeting, noting that very little focus was related to the recent pandemic.

"One thing that you didn't hear much of at the meeting was COVID-19," said Bruce Carlson , Vice President of Kalorama Information, part of Science and Medicine Group.  "That's not to say it wasn't present, certainly aftermaths and impacts were discussed.  But you saw laboratorians discuss genomics, pediatrics and cancer in this 'comeback' in-person meeting." 

Perhaps a vestige of the COVID-19 pandemic was a focus on better and faster workflows, automation and other products.  Siemens Healthineers unveiled the Atellica CI 1900 Analyzer, a clinical chemistry and immunoassay testing system and lower volume version of its on-the-market Atellica clinical chemistry and immunoassay testing solution.  The system, with the capacity to conduct more than 250,000 clinical chemistry tests per year is in development.  Thermo Fisher Scientific displayed its new interface with the Inpeco S.A.'s FlexLab Total Laboratory Automation system (TLA), which enables primary tubes on the Inpeco LAS to be transported directly to the Thermo Scientific Cascadion SM Clinical Analyzer for automated loading, pre-treatment and analysis.

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