CRIAMTech

CRIAMTech is a company known for providing portable blood diagnostics devices for typing and disease control purposes. The company was founded in 2016 by Ana Ferraz, Filipe Quinza, and Vitor Crespo, in Braga, Braga, Portugal.

CRIAM, or Chemical Reaction and Image Analysis for Mobility, looks to provide in-situ blood test analysis to inform people of their health conditions, and does so by providing a device as a platform solution. The company is interested in providing testing instruments for diseases including HIV, hepatitis, brucella, tick fever, syphilis, mononucleosis, and meningitis.

The company has partnered with companies such as Microsoft, Audi, and Sic Noticirs to create a product that provides point-of-care diagnostics. The diagnostics instrument that CRIAMTech has developed provides an analysis within three minutes, and is manufactured to be affordable for healthcare providers. The device identifies human ABO and Rh blood types as well as sub-type through blood phenotyping and image processing techniques.