Iris Diagnostics
is a leader in automated urinalysis
technology with its workstations installed in major medical institutions
throughout the world. Iris Diagnostics
manufactures the only clinical analyzers which use real-time video flow
imaging, displaying microscopic images on a video screen. The systems
are operated by touch screen interfaces pioneered by the Company for use
in urinalysis and microscopic analysis of body fluids. The Company's
imaging systems use patented and proprietary Automated Intelligent
Microscopy (AIM) technology for automating microscopic procedures, enabling
clinical laboratory technologists to rapidly and efficiently analyze and
process specimens automatically, significantly reducing the costly and
time-consuming manual steps required for microscopic analysis.
Iris Sample Processing (formerly StatSpin®),
acquired in 1996, excels as a maker of innovative
centrifuges and blood analysis products. Forty thousand of its
benchtop centrifuge systems have been sold to date. Major medical
institutions worldwide, along with thousands of smaller hospitals,
commercial laboratories, clinics, doctors' offices, veterinary
labs and research institutions use Iris Sample Processing's
products. Iris Sample Processing manufactures
the world's fastest blood separator (30 seconds). Its bench top
centrifuges are dedicated to applications for manual specimen
preparation in coagulation, cytology, hematology and urinalysis.
Iris Sample Processing has been providing centrifuges to the veterinary market
through a company which provides sample and analysis systems and
recently passed the 13,000th centrifuge shipped to this market.