So she was merely ahead of her time.
You should understand the difference between taking a single drop of blood and trying to run a battery of tests on it, and sticking a probe into your extra cellular matrix to continuously monitor changes. It’s small, but it’s having a constant shifting flow of fluid at all times so it’s getting far more than one drop.
That silly patch idea?
The use case was never the problem. The problem was that it did not work.