Point-of-care (POC) analytical technology has empowered patients with a more convenient, rapid, reliable, and cost-effective diagnostic tool for self-management of health. In order to realize the effective disease management and appropriate therapeutic interventions in real time, there is a great need for a POC health monitoring system which allows non-invasive, accurate, convenient, easy-to-use, painless, and very fast measurements. By reviewing some current technologies of POC, we believe for

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... the next generation of POC testing, home testing devices with non-invasive testing approach, accurate results, and real-time measurements will be the new trends. Figure 1: Comparison between non-invasive point-of-care testing (POCT) and conventional analyzers.