Polymer Technology Systems, Inc. (PTS)

Polymer Technology Systems, Inc. is best known in point-of-care diagnostics for its CardioChek line of portable blood analyzers and companion test strips — tools that let clinicians, pharmacies, wellness screeners, and home users measure lipid panels and blood chemistry in minutes without sending samples to a lab. If you're shopping this brand, you're likely trying to match the right consumable to the analyzer you already own, or standing up a screening program that needs reliable, repeatable results outside a traditional lab setting.

The reason buyers gravitate toward PTS is the whole-blood, fingerstick workflow. Instead of drawing venous samples and waiting on turnaround, a single drop applied to the correct test strip returns quantitative results at the site of care. That makes it a fit for community health fairs, employer wellness programs, physician offices tracking cholesterol and glucose trends, and patients managing cardiovascular risk between clinic visits.

The most important thing to get right when ordering is compatibility. Analyzers and strips are calibrated as a system — the panel you need (total cholesterol, HDL, triglycerides, glucose, and calculated LDL among them) determines the specific strip, and strips are lot-coded and have expiration dates that affect accuracy. Confirm your device generation, the exact analyte panel, and storage requirements before you buy, since strips are temperature-sensitive and single-use.

Browse the full Polymer Technology range to compare analyzers, test strips, and screening supplies, and reach out if you need help confirming which consumable pairs with your CardioChek unit.