{"id":28502,"date":"2017-04-17T10:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T10:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/anxiety\/28502\/"},"modified":"2017-04-17T10:30:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T10:30:55","slug":"self-funded-team-led-by-an-er-doctor-wins-star-trek-inspired-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/28502","title":{"rendered":"Self-funded team led by an ER doctor wins \u2018Star Trek\u2019-inspired competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the Washington Post:<\/p>\n

A seven-member, self-funded team including four siblings won the international X Prize tricorder consumer\u00a0medical competition \u2014 yes, inspired by the \u201cStar Trek\u201d gizmo \u2014 besting 312 entrants from 38 countries, many with corporate and government backing.<\/p>\n

Final Frontier Medical Devices, led by Basil Harris, a suburban Philadelphia emergency room doctor, won the $2.6 million top prize. The open competition, launched in 2012, challenged applicants to produce a lightweight, affordable health kit that diagnoses and interprets 13 health conditions and continuously monitors five health vitals. The team\u2019s kit, equipped with noninvasive sensors, collects information that is synthesized on a diagnostic device \u2014 an iPad was used in the competition, but it could ultimately work on a smartphone.<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019s only invention before this competition was a cotton-candy machine he made with his brothers in grade school.<\/p>
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From the Washington Post:<\/p>\n

A seven-member, self-funded team including four siblings won the international X Prize tricorder consumer\u00a0medical competition \u2014 yes, inspired by the \u201cStar Trek\u201d gizmo \u2014 besting 312 entrants from 38 countries, many with corporate and government backing.<\/p>\n

Final Frontier Medical Devices, led by Basil Harris, a suburban Philadelphia emergency room doctor, won the $2.6 million top prize. The open competition, launched in 2012, challenged applicants to produce a lightweight, affordable health kit that diagnoses and interprets 13 health conditions and continuously monitors five health vitals. The team\u2019s kit, equipped with noninvasive sensors, collects information that is synthesized on a diagnostic device \u2014 an iPad was used in the competition, but it could ultimately work on a smartphone.<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019s only invention before this competition was a cotton-candy machine he made with his brothers in grade school.<\/p>\n

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