Point-of-Care Diagnostics.
In medicine, one of the major promises of technology is patient empowerment—especially when it comes to diagnostics. The XPRIZE Tricorder Challenge is a $10 million incentivized prize for the development of a hand-held, non-invasive electronic device that can diagnose patients better than a panel of doctors. Think of it as a combination of a Lab-on-a-Chip and a Watson or Isabel-like AI in the cloud. Suddenly, patients no longer have to go to the doctor’s office or hospital. Instead, in the comfort of your home, the Tricorder will analyze data, diagnose the problem, and send that information to a doctor who, quite possibly, can treat you remotely. In the developed world, where doctors make diagnostic errors 10 percent of the time, this will make a significant difference in quality-of-care and significantly reduce the roughly $55 billion spent annually on the malpractice system) In the developing world, this will make healthcare far more accessible.
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Point-of-Care Diagnostics.
In medicine, one of the major promises of technology is patient empowerment—especially when it comes to diagnostics. The XPRIZE Tricorder Challenge is a $10 million incentivized prize for the development of a hand-held, non-invasive electronic device that can diagnose patients better than a panel of doctors. Think of it as a combination of a Lab-on-a-Chip and a Watson or Isabel-like AI in the cloud. Suddenly, patients no longer have to go to the doctor’s office or hospital. Instead, in the comfort of your home, the Tricorder will analyze data, diagnose the problem, and send that information to a doctor who, quite possibly, can treat you remotely. In the developed world, where doctors make diagnostic errors 10 percent of the time, this will make a significant difference in quality-of-care and significantly reduce the roughly $55 billion spent annually on the malpractice system) In the developing world, this will make healthcare far more accessible.
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