Healthcare is rapidly becoming quantitative, a number’s game - see the Quantified Self movement. Patients as well as doctors will be overloaded with “big” data. This will open up a massive market for auto-diagnosis. But this market needs a tool, just like the mobile market needed a mobile phone.

The tool will be called the medical Tricorder, inspired by Star Trek, where the device is used by doctors to help diagnose diseases and collect bodily information about a patient.

Advances in sensors, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing technology, along with the coming ubiquity of mobile phones, makes this device possible.

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Scanadu added Eri Gentry as Director of Business Development. (2/1/12)

Posted 4/6/12 at 4:50pm
Scanadu added Ivo Clarysse as Chief Technology Officer.

Posted 4/2/12 at 10:31am
Scanadu added Anthony Smart as Chief Scientist.

Posted 4/2/12 at 10:31am
Scanadu added Jamison Feramisco as Chief Medical Officer.

Posted 4/2/12 at 10:30am
Scanadu added Jim Cheng as CFO. (2/1/11)

Posted 7/7/11 at 7:20am
Scanadu added Misha Chellam as Chief Operating Officer. (1/1/11)

Posted 7/5/11 at 2:44pm
Scanadu added Walter de Brouwer as Chief Executive Officer. (1/1/11)

Posted 7/5/11 at 2:40pm
Scanadu received $4M in Seed funding. (11/8/11)

Posted 11/8/11 at 6:54pm via techcrunch.com