About Us

Alere Medical (formerly, Inverness) is a global diagnostics and health management company offering an extensive range of products and services that allow healthcare decisions to be taken at the point of care, helping to move diagnostic services 'closer to home'.

Alere Medical has for many years been a global leader in the medical diagnostics sector and is ranked amongst the UK’s top 5 diagnostics companies. We have grown rapidly in the last few years, acquiring a number of companies and adding new products, technologies and health management capabilities to our comprehensive portfolio. With an extensive range of easy-to-use rapid diagnostics and health screening services we support healthcare providers by allowing diagnostic testing to be performed close to the patient - in the clinic, community, hospital or home.

We connect you to the information needed to make accurate and timely health decisions. By combining the results of our diagnostics with the analysis and insight of our health management services we help you get to the right diagnosis faster, select the best course of treatment and allow care to continue no matter where you are. So whether your treatment is taking place in an emergency room in China, a doctor’s office in Spain or at home in Australia, our products and services make it possible to connect with the information you need to make the best health decisions.

Specializing in the areas of cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, women's health, pre-natal care, drugs of abuse and oncology, the company owns numerous patented technologies and has many leading healthcare brands such as Biosite®, Clearview®, Cholestech LDX®, Determine® and Binax®. We employ over 11,000 people worldwide, including more than 850 in the UK. In 2009, we generated revenues of $1.9 billion, making us the sixth largest and fastest growing diagnostics company in the world.

With our focus on primary care and home testing, we quickly responded to the increasing emphasis on health improvement and recently added health management companies to our portfolio. By bringing together diagnostics and health management expertise we now offer a range of 'connected' services to improve clinical outcomes and reduce costs.

In order to make it easier for customers to identify the depth and breadth of our extensive range we have decided to re-brand our business and most of our products and services under a unified, easily recognizable name. Alere, which means to nurture, care for or support, was chosen to reflect our focus on delivering preventative, people-centered and productive healthcare resources that meet the changing needs of today's NHS. Alere supports doctors and patients by developing simple diagnostic equipment to ensure better quality in inpatient and outpatient care.