The POCT section of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL) organized the 6th German POCT Symposium on the subject of “Innovative solutions for a quality-assured near-patient laboratory diagnostics” as a satellite congress of the 19th Annual Congress of the DGKL 2024 in Bremen. The new event format resulted from the reorganization of the congress following the end of the “Munich POCT Symposium” series. The Congress presidents Astrid Petersmann and Peter B. Luppa organized a total of eight sessions in the Congress Center Bremen which members of the POCT section mostly chaired.

The conference highlighted and discussed relevant innovations in the highly dynamic field of the near-patient diagnostics [1]. During the conference, the presenters and the attendees also examined numerous clinical issues from emergency and intensive care medicine, the diagnosis of infectious diseases, and the application of continuous glucose monitoring. The POCT Symposium was also dedicated to modern cross-sectional technologies, new IT concepts, innovative POCT applications, innovations in quality assurance, pre-analytics, and the critical aspects of new regulatory requirements (Figure 1).

• Peter B. Luppa  und Astrid Petersmann

Aus der Zeitschrift Journal of Laboratory Medicine

https://doi.org/10.1515/labmed-2025-0019