Qvella™ is a clinical diagnostics company with the goal to provide microbiology results in minutes. Providing clinicians with actionable information in clinically relevant time frames – minutes vs. hours or days – has the potential to revolutionize patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. Qvella's Field Activated Sample Treatment (FAST-Technology™) technologies include a novel sample treatment method and unique e-Lysis™ which can be combined in a fully-automated workflow that enables rapid isolation and concentration of viable infectious organisms from complex samples including whole blood.