Alere Inc. provides diagnostics and services for cardiology, infectious disease, toxicology, and diabetes in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Professional Diagnostics, Health Information Solutions, and Consumer Diagnostics. The Professional Diagnostics segment provides an array of diagnostic test products and other in vitro diagnostic tests to medical professionals and laboratories for detection of diseases and conditions in the areas of cardiology, infectious diseases, toxicology, diabetes, oncology, and women’s health, as well as offers connected device technologies. The Health Information Solutions segment offers integrated programs and services focused on wellness, disease and condition management, productivity enhancement, and informatics. This segment’s health management programs comprise disease and case management, women’s and children’s health, wellness, and patient self-testing services. The Consumer Diagnostics segment provides products for over-the-counter pregnancy and fertility/ovulation test markets; and over-the-counter drug tests for at-home testing and cholesterol monitoring under the first check brand name, as well as vaginal gel for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis. Alere Inc. markets its professional diagnostic products to hospitals, reference laboratories, physician offices, and other point-of-care settings through its sales forces and distribution networks; health management programs primarily to commercial and governmental health plans, self-insured employers, government and governmental programs, pharmaceutical companies, and physicians through sales force and channel partners; and consumer drug testing products through retail drug stores, drug wholesalers, groceries, and mass merchandisers. The company was formerly known as Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. and changed its name to Alere Inc. in July 2010. Alere Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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