alere
Alere Inc. was a global manufacturer of rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company operated three business units focused on cardiometabolic, infectious disease, and toxicology testing. Alere's product portfolio included the Alere i platform for rapid molecular diagnostics, the Alere CD4 analyser for HIV management, and the RALS point-of-care data management system for laboratory connectivity. Alere Informatics offered web-based solutions including RALS-Freedom, AegisPOC, and RALS-Web3 for point-of-care device management and data integration with laboratory information systems. Abbott Laboratories acquired Alere on October 3, 2017 for $5.3 billion, and the company now operates as Abbott Rapid Diagnostics.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles alere the way a machine reads it — 2 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — alere scores 10.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 4/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile alere
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for alere. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 1
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
RALS Point-of-Care Data Management API
The RALS (Remote Automated Laboratory Systems) platform provides point-of-care device management and data integration capabilities. RALS connects point-of-care testing devices t...
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for alere — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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