Fast, Comprehensive, Accurate Small Volume Blood Diagnostics on Blood Drops via an Inexpensive Hand-held Collection Device, InnovaStrip and a Fast Blood Analysis App

Blood Diagnostics (BD) need mLs of blood, leading to Hospital Acquired Anemia in the chronically ill and infants. BD can take days for results, delaying treatment. A cheap, fast, portable BD device, InnovaStrip \texttrademark , is developed here for accurate Small Volume BD via a \textit{hyper-hydrophilic} coating, HemaDrop\texttrademark . \textit{Hyper-hydrophilicity }flattens droplets into flat, uniform films by absorbing H$_{2}$O in blood in minutes via rapid solidification into Homogeneous Thin Solid Films (HTSF) \textit{without coagulation}. HTSFs can be analyzed via hand-held X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) and Ion Beam Analysis (IBA). XRF and IBA can yield blood levels of electrolytes, Fe, heavy metals and radionuclides with an accuracy $\le \quad +$/-10{\%} in minutes. An App ,`Fast Accurate Blood Analysis', or FABA, converts data in blood levels as mg/dL, the medically accepted units in BD. InnovaStrip yields with FABA inexpensive, hand-held, blood levels of electrolytes, Fe, and metals, and has a high potential for deployment in remote and underserved areas with limited access to diagnostic labs