Rating Portable Diagnostic Devices That Make Patients the Point-of-Care

Although the medical tricorder will remain a dream to be chased by digital health innovators for the years to come, I collected the portable, digital health diagnostic devices currently on the market in case anyone is thinking about purchasing an effective gadget making the patient the point of care. Chasing the dream of the medical tricorder Dr. McCoy’s medical tricorder from the Star Trek series, which could scan a patient and immediately tell the diagnosis, basic vital signs and health parameters is the dream of many doctors. In 2012, Qualcomm announced the Tricorder XPRIZE competition offering millions of dollars to anyone who could come up with the device. The challenge recently ended with a winner and a runner up. Of the 300 teams that joined the pursuit of the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, Final Frontier Medical Devices received 2.5 million dollars as the winner and Dynamical Biomarkers Group $1 million as the runner-up at the awards ceremony on April 12, 2017. If you look at Final Frontier Medical Devices’ DxtER, it functions rather as a collection of non-invasive medical-diagnosis gadgets than being an all-in-one scanner. It measures heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, body temperature and oxygen saturation. It offers a Mono test kit, an ECG monitor, and devices like the DxtER Orb, which doubles as a thermometer and stethoscope. However, those eager early birds trying to buy the gadget still have to wait years until it hits the consumer market. The sta...
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