ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition 1 article published in JoVE Biology A Point-of-Care Method with Integrated Decision Support Tool to Estimate Anemia at Population Level Little Flower Augustine1, Teena Dasi1, Ravindranadh Palika2, Bharati Kulkarni1, Raghu Pullakhandam2, Divya Teja Pasupuleti1, Santosh Kumar Banjara1 1Clinical Division, ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, 2Food and Drug Toxicology Division, ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition An accurate hemoglobin estimation method is lacking at the point of care and may hinder population-based programs for treating anemia. Therefore, we developed a point-of-care method based on pooled capillary blood and an auto-analyzer integrated into a custom software application to categorize the hemoglobin values into different grades of anemia.