Forget about E.R. Here comes Scanadu Scout!

Walter De Brouwer. Photo: Alex Washburn / Wired

"'Mad Scientist Sees Future Where We Sell Our Quantified Selves on eBay.' Well, maybe not that mad... Scanadu Scout. 'There’s a complete emergency room in there. Every sensor you can think of we’ve put in there – blood pressure, ECG, infrared, three accelerometers, gyroscope, Bluetooth module, 32-bit microprocessor. This is a product that helps the doctor, partially replaces the doctor, or makes you into a citizen doctor.' (...) Will this make us worth more money? 'I think so because if you keep all that data, people will be able to sell themselves, especially if you have a rare disease because there will be a market for clinical trial testing. It will be a bit like the eBay for bodies. (...) Now with these things (like Scout), the people are going to rewrite the (medicine) map, like they have done with Wikipedia, and all sorts of great stuff will come out of that.'"

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Meanwhile, Head of ER department in a Parisian Hospital, France, says: "We're not Jack Bauer in that '24 Hours' TV show... We're MD's, we're humans..." They might think Walter De Brouwer is a hubot (half man-half machine) from the future... But what if those ER Docs were... a thing from the past?

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/06/scanadu-scout

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