What is the Scanadu Scout™?

Scanadu Scout™ is designed to be a medical grade Tricorder® using your smartphone and Bluetooth LE to emulate an Emergency Room in your pocket. Our first iteration of the Scanadu Scout™ does not perform all the actions necessary for the Tricorder® X-prize, but we are well on our way.

It will measure your:

Whether you’re a Quantified Selfer, life-logger, Maker, medical student, techie, MD, parent with kids, parent with parents, teacher, educator, baby boomer, data scientist, pilot, mountaineer, athlete or mathlete...

Scanadu Scout™ is being designed to empower you. Who’s the “first responder” when your vital signs are in flux? You!can call your doctor and already be informed and knowledgeable about your health.

Yes! With Scanadu, we are going to be the last generation to know so little about our health.

Simple.

You will simply place the Scanadu Scout™ on your forehead for 10 seconds and in a snap, your stats are displayed on your smartphone.

Scanadu Scout™ will give you access to valuable data which your body provides every day. Don't let your precious information get lost; use Scanadu Scout™ to analyze, track, and trend your vitals with unprecedented simplicity.

And very powerful.

Scanadu Scout™ will use a 32-bit RTOS Micrium platform, NASA’s choice for SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) on the Rover Curiosity (uC/OS-II Kernel Drives Extraterrestrial Scientific Investigations).

The Scanadu app will come in Android and iOS versions. It will support Bluetooth 4.0, more specifically Bluetooth 4.0 Smart Low Energy (LE).

The Scanadu Scout™ uses a micro-USB adapter that you can hook up to a USB port. It will take less than an hour to get fully charged from low battery. When using it a few times a day, it will last for about a week.

A damp towelette or disinfecting wipe can be used to wipe down the Scanadu Scout™ after use but it is not waterproof.

Where are we in the development?

We have a prototype device that is designed to measure vital signs. However, to bring the Scanadu Scout™ to the vast consumer market, we still have to file with the FDA. Right now we are giving eligible subjects access to our first version of the device as a part of a research study, where you will part of the research!

By helping us collect data, we can support our FDA application for market clearance as an over-the-counter consumer-grade diagnostic tool.Our study protocol will be reviewed and approved by an IRB prior to initiating the study.The product will not pose any significant risk to users and can be used to collect, store and display all your information, but without making specific disease diagnosis. By contributing to our campaign and participating in our study, you will help us refine the Scanadu Scout™ and get us ready for a formal clinical study.

The Journey.

We are creating a medical-grade device, which is not yet fully accurate and not cleared by FDA. Hence this is not a medical device. Via this campaign, you may contribute and your input may affect the final design and characteristics of this revolutionary tool.

The exploratory version of the Scanadu Scout™ is not a medical device and makes no medical claims. It is still in development and can only be used as part of an investigation. As an investigational product, it can be used to collect certain data and must be used in accordance with the study’s protocol.

Before Scanadu Scout™ can become a medical device it will have to go through the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) premarket notification process and this is where your help comes in. With the Scanadu Scout™ eligible participants will help us by Scouting yourself as part of a research study and giving us feedback to refine the Scanadu Scout™.

This will happen in the framework of official clinical studies in which you will be invited to partake, ONLY IF YOU OPT-IN. For each study, you will be contacted and will have to sign an Informed Consent form. With your help we can put Scanadu Scout™ through FDA to become an over-the-counter consumer-grade diagnostic tool.

When will I be invited to participate? Before you are eligible to receive your Scanadu Scout™, you will also be receive information about the study and the Informed Consent document at which time you will be free to decide towill enable participate in our study, and help us define the final properties of the device.

You may also opt-in during the course of subsequently specific clinical studies in which you might might be invited to take part.

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