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X-Prize wants to bring the medical tricorder from Star Trek to life.

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ph4zr:
More realistic would be having it host a DB used for differential diagnosis. In which case it could use any readings it gets from the body, or responses to questions, to rule out the unlikely and offer a probable diagnosis. Since no system is infallible, it would need to track answers so that "unrelated" issues could be tentatively removed from the differential.

However, the actual readings you could get from a handheld device would, I imagine, be limited to things like heat, color, and sound. More generally, most forms of radiation/EM waves, vibration, or magnetism, as relevant. So I guess body temperature, infections, discoloration, lungs and pulse, would be the most easily checked.
Disclaimer: /I have zero medical knowledge.

kitamesume:
ehhh, theres a call-checkup that you could say your symptoms through the phone, usually hospital does this regularly and doctors, sometimes does it as well during basic physical examination, asking you "how do you feel, any headaches? chestpain? or anything that makes you feel uncomfortable?" and follows up an actual examination based on the person's complain, if its stomach pain then a stool test is suggested, if its chestpain then more likely an X-Ray test is suggested.

if they could actually implement a question and answer diagnosis, they could save hospitals some trouble of answering the phone too much, or if the people could just remember the symptoms and the solution for them, they could just do self medication if the sickness isnt that much worrying.

i`ve been to the hospital for alot of time, dengue fever, teh flu(mom was paranoid that it was teh H1N1), some days that i get a fever of 39c+, vaccines some times in a year, regular monthly check-ups and some accidents as well.

mgz:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on May 14, 2011, 08:22:27 AM ---is this true? seriously? smells like a hoax.

anyway, it takes an MRI machine to scan a brain, an X-Ray machine to scan bones and so on, not to mention they're as big as your bedroom. if they want an all-in-one scanner thats at a size of a magazine, they'll be looking for a 50+ years of waiting.

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if you read what he wrote its diagnose a patient as well as a medical panel.

IE if you went to the doctor prior to the tests. Which would mean it would probably have to utilize camera for analyzing and comparing rashes and markings with symptom list as well as all kinds of symptoms in some sort of kinda easy to use check list like function that slowly narrows down your likely disease.


Think of it like a better easier webmd app

NaRu:
also the power needed to run these scans. They are smoking if they think any battery is produce that much power.

The only thing I can think of that will be useful is to have a chip scanner in the phone. You place a chip inside a person and this chip keeps track of your vitals. Anyone using a phone can see your vitals just by being near the person.

kitamesume:
thats more expensive than doing the actual scan, imho the identification chip implant costs more than a  hundred dollars.

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