It’s just a coincidence that last week’s Tagline had a story about point-of-care devices moving from the hospital setting into the realm of consumer products.  Reinforcing that observation, here is a piece about consumer electronics giant, Sony, adding Micronics (a maker of microfluidic devices in Redmond, WA) to last year’s purchase of  iCyt Mission Technologies (manufacturer of cell sorting instruments in Champaign, IL) in a likely strategy to design and produce point-of-care devices for the consumer market.  Will this be the Rx Man?           MORE