In the original 1960s Star Trek television series, doctors use a medical tricorder, a mobile device that collects vital information about patients and helps diagnose diseases.These tricorders were just a figment of someones imagination and wound up in the Star Trek shows. No one ever thought they would become part of our reality. But that was proven wrong, said James Hoshor, senior mobile strategist and solutions architect, Propelics. The healthcare industry is now using all kinds of medical devices and tricorders are now being piloted in the industry. More specifically, consumers can now use DxtER, which was originally designed by Basil Leaf Technologies for the global $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE competition, to diagnose and monitor illnesses in the comfort of their own homes.1

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