Alere Medical Incorporated

our company has partnered up with Alere to use their Cholestech LDX machine to perform our cholesterol testing for our patients. each of our pharmacies have a single cholestech machine and we order the supplies as we need it. The machine itself is easy to use and Alere gave great educational tools and handouts. however, there are a lot of unnecessary steps in setting the system up that is a downside. moreover, once the disk for the machine has been opened, it is only good for 30 days and given that the material is expensive, it is very wasteful. so while the machine itself works well and seems to give accurate data, the misc supplies we need for the machine is expensive and has short exp. dates

Strengths: reliable machinery

Needs to improve: none