Peter Jansen, Creator of Open Source Tricorder, Joins Scanadu
Mountain View, CA, May 16, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Scanadu, the Silicon Valley based startup building the Medical Tricorder, today welcomes Peter Jansen, the one-man force behind the Open Source Science Tricorder. Jansen joins a brilliant 12-person team backed by the likes of Stephen Wolfram and Nicholas Negroponte.
Peter Jansen, PhD, recently made media waves when, on the heels of the Tricorder X PRIZE announcement, he released open source designs for two real-life Tricorders. Dubbed the “Mark 1” and “Mark 2,” these science Tricorders form the bedrock of Jansen’s Tricorder Project, an open hardware community adding to Jansen’s original design.
Jansen, a protean hacker - fluent in astro and optical physics, cognitive artificial intelligence, and medical imaging - is driven by the belief that free and inalienable access to healthcare is a basic human right. Growing up in Canada has given Jansen perspective on flaws in American medicine and political resistance to socialized care. The only solution, he sees, is to change the system from the bottom up, first by making expensive medical equipment cheap. The end goal? According to Jansen: “Medicine must become an information science.”
Jansen’s mission mirrors Scanadu’s own - to put the tools of a doctor’s office into the hands of the medical consumer, giving the individual access to the most deeply personal information possible - their health data.
About Scanadu
Scanadu is a health technology company that is building the Medical Tricorder, a device that enables consumers to manage their own health care. Consumers will have real-time monitoring of 6 vital signs in a single device. Sensor data combines seamlessly with user-device Q&A and personal health records (PHR), resulting in the most complete picture of health ever possible to-date. The Tricorder gives recommendations for medical care, when appropriate, and lets users schedule an appointment or speak with a medical professional immediately. Scanadu closed a $4 million Seed round of financing in 2012. For more information about the company, please visit http://www.scanadu.com/.
Press Contact – Eri Gentry
Email: eri@scanadu.com
Location: Moffett Field
Phone: 480.358.8847
Peter Jansen, PhD, recently made media waves when, on the heels of the Tricorder X PRIZE announcement, he released open source designs for two real-life Tricorders. Dubbed the “Mark 1” and “Mark 2,” these science Tricorders form the bedrock of Jansen’s Tricorder Project, an open hardware community adding to Jansen’s original design.
Jansen, a protean hacker - fluent in astro and optical physics, cognitive artificial intelligence, and medical imaging - is driven by the belief that free and inalienable access to healthcare is a basic human right. Growing up in Canada has given Jansen perspective on flaws in American medicine and political resistance to socialized care. The only solution, he sees, is to change the system from the bottom up, first by making expensive medical equipment cheap. The end goal? According to Jansen: “Medicine must become an information science.”
Jansen’s mission mirrors Scanadu’s own - to put the tools of a doctor’s office into the hands of the medical consumer, giving the individual access to the most deeply personal information possible - their health data.
About Scanadu
Scanadu is a health technology company that is building the Medical Tricorder, a device that enables consumers to manage their own health care. Consumers will have real-time monitoring of 6 vital signs in a single device. Sensor data combines seamlessly with user-device Q&A and personal health records (PHR), resulting in the most complete picture of health ever possible to-date. The Tricorder gives recommendations for medical care, when appropriate, and lets users schedule an appointment or speak with a medical professional immediately. Scanadu closed a $4 million Seed round of financing in 2012. For more information about the company, please visit http://www.scanadu.com/.
Press Contact – Eri Gentry
Email: eri@scanadu.com
Location: Moffett Field
Phone: 480.358.8847
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