The diagnosis without the doctor: a new competition for inventors

He declared the Fund "Skolkovo". The purpose of the contest - a universal diagnostic device. It should work without the participation of doctors and identify a variety of diseases.

Such a concept is already quite a lot, but in the market of high technologies in the field of medicine at the Skolkovo MD (as will be referred to the unit) is its own special niche. Founders Fund expect contestants creating mobile devices, whereby patients will be able to diagnose your body.

By the functionality of the developed devices meet the highest requirements. The greater the number of clinical conditions will be able to diagnose the device, the greater the chance to become a winner of the developers of the project. The mobile device will have to recognize the most common diseases of the population. These include diabetes, sleep apnea, melanoma and others. The organizers are ready to consider options for the selection of concepts capable device to diagnose medical conditions, the number of which exceeds the special provisions stated in the list. There are no restrictions for the type of technology used. Developers only important to comply with the requirement of mobile devices, as well as the simplicity of its operation without the use of invasive techniques.

Participation in the competition can even be a team. The number of must be at least one candidate of sciences, as well as professionals with experience in the field of mobile diagnose diseases.
The base of people from which to make the team, posted on the website Skolkovo   http://md.sk.ru. Applications for participation in the project is completed on June 2 this year. The semi-final selection will be made until July 3, and the finalists will be announced August 1st. These people will take part in the creation of the designed device and receive prize money (9 million).
Additional information about the competition is available on the project website.

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