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X-Prize tricorder contest comes at perfect time for at-home test developer

Digital health incubator Rock Health is hosting the 2012 Health Innovation Summit this week in San Francisco. In a series of posts, I’ll be profiling some of the interesting new health companies represented at the summit. You can browse all of the startups I liked from the Rock Health summit here. Inspired by what was […]

Digital health incubator Rock Health is hosting the 2012 Health Innovation Summit this week in San Francisco. In a series of posts, I’ll be profiling some of the interesting new health companies represented at the summit. You can browse all of the startups I liked from the Rock Health summit here.

Inspired by what was just announced as the $10 million X-Prize tricorder contest, Rock Health startup Senstore has been working on infrastructure that will enable companies to create noninvasive at-home diagnostic devices. The founders, who developed the technology during graduate work at Singularity University, recently won a Startup Weekend with their technology that can “accumulate multiple data streams in one place,” said cofounder Rachel Kalmar.