so, we started to see the finger stick collection window. and more vina puncture increase. what did they tell you about why they were switching to part finger stick and part vienna puncture. they just they didn t tell us it just happened. we were told we would need to say this blanket statement. due to the test that your physician ordered. we have to perform vina puncture to make sure that we had enough sample to perform the testing. would you like to proceed? that s it. yeah it s supplies. it surprised a lot of the technicians. it surprised a lot of the patients or the customers that were coming in to some people. how express profanities like stormed out, demanded their money back then, during that whole transition to vienna, puncture we had this big, higher boom where i had to
would bring executives from some company to a room, which would have different styles of edison they were prototyping. they would do a finger stick on the executive. so, they would take a finger stick of blood. they would put the blood into the cartridge, and then they put the cartridge into this tenison. they walk the executives out of the room to have a tour or have lunch. and immediately after, an engineer would run in, grab the cartridge, run it to the lab, where my team would do the assays at the bench. we were on call, so this could be done within an hour. we got reasonable data every time. and then we would get those results. the engineer would run to the room with the results, and these guys would come back in and say, oh, here s your results from running our test. we had listed on the we cab pag
so i went to arizona to get myself tested. so one morning, i went to the walgreens that was closest to my hotel. i sat down in one of these wellness centers. and the phlebotomist, i heard her talking on the phone and te typing on the computer for a few minutes. and she turned around and came at me with a tourniquet and a syringe. i said, why not a finger stick? i thought this was all about finger stick blood tests? she said, no, your order actually requires tests that require a venous draw. the truth is that before my story came out, there had already been instances of people going in to get their blood checked and they would have to do a vein puncture instead of a finger stick. i asked about that a number of times, and the answers were incredibly opaque.
finger stick. i asked about that a number of times, and the answers were incredibly opaque. so, my question is, what percentage of your tests are needle and finger rick? i don t have a really good number for you because it s changing. we re confident in saying we re close to 99% being capillary. are we talking about in the next five years, one years? much less than a year without question. at the time, you didn t think that was necessary evidence? absolutely not. i actually believed her. i remember her saying it to me. and that s a lie. period. so, after a year or so, we started to see the finger stick collection dwindle and more venipuncture increase.
accuracy of the blood tests. so, i went to arizona to get myself tested. so, one morning, i went to the walgreens that was closest to my hotel. i sat down in one of these wellness centers. and the phlebotomist, i heard her talking on the phone for a few minutes, and she turned around and came at me with a tourniquet and a syringe. i said, why not a finger stick? i thought this was all about finger stick blood tests? she said, no, your order actually requires tests that require a venous drill. the truth is that before my story came out, there had already been instances of people going in to get their blood checked and they would have to do a vein puncture instead of