Health comes first for 84 percent of all employees in Germany. Still before family, friends and financial security. More and more people want to understand their bodies better and lead a healthy life without taking long waiting times and impersonal visits to the doctor. This is exactly where many startups come in: with blood tests for home and personalized lifestyle recommendations.
But how reliable are these tests really? And how sustainable are the business models of the startups? We took a closer look at the German blood test market and spoke to experts.
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How reliable are the tests?
Andreas Bobrowski, chairman of the professional association of German laboratory doctors, is critical of the accuracy of these blood tests. “In terms of quality, the at home tests are significantly inferior to the laboratory tests because the test implementation is of course affected with certain problems and can make pre-analytical mistakes. There is also no quality control,” he explains. There would be three problems with the blood tests for home. First, there may already be mistakes when it comes to indication. Means patients choose the wrong test. Secondly, the most common source of error is pre -analytics, i.e. the preparation for the test and blood sample. 75 percent of all mistakes would occur here, says Bobrowski.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.de/gruenderszene/business/markt-ueberblick-longevity-bluttest-startups-deutschland/
