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Nottingham anticipates bigger results from the firm’s latest play: HealthSpot, a kiosk that comes with pull-out medical instruments and a high-definition screen that allows for remote, yet face-to-face, medical appointments.

Interesting video here: http://www.healthspot.net/solutions/healthspot-station/

...however this feels way too close to the idiocracy medical scanning machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIktqjfsB_0

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There have been companies working on the Tricoder XPrize[1] who are trying to replicate the infamous Star Trek tricoder. I personally think it will beat out on cost versus something like the HealthSpot, but I know nothing about what the market wants/will use/will pay for in the future. I do know one thing though, these guys seem well connected with some of the Old Guard and possibly Government to potentially have influence on rolling out pilot programs. [1]http://tricorder.xprize.org/

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