Most electrolyte analyzer manufacturers build for the Western hospital with a huge budget, perfect climate control, and dedicated refrigerated storage. They assume you have specialized technicians who can perform complex daily maintenance. They expect ideal conditions.
Then they wonder why their equipment fails in three-quarters of the world.
In the district hospitals of Kenya, the emergency departments of Mexico, the rural clinics of Eastern Europe - where HTI actually works - laboratories need rapid electrolyte testing but can't maintain the infrastructure these premium systems demand.
You need electrolyte results for the diabetic patient in renal crisis. For the child with severe dehydration from cholera. For pre-surgical clearance when OR time is precious. But you can't dedicate refrigerator space meant for vaccines to reagent storage. You can't spend 30 minutes every morning on calibration rituals when patients are already lining up.
HTI understands this reality because we built our electrolyte analyzers for it.