The dream of the medical tricorder.
The article considers research in medical technology. A competition conducted by the wireless communications technology company Qualcomm to develop mobile electronic devices which could be used for medical screening and self-diagnosis by consumers is discussed. Existing application software for smar...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 405; no. 8813; pp. 12 - 15 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
12/1/2012
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