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Thierry Marcou on 02 Jul 13"Wired: What's your mission with Scanadu? De Brouwer: The whole diagnostic part we wanted to recreate. We started with the emergency room. They do the vital signs: respiratory rate, heart rate, diastolic and systolic blood pressure, your temperature, oxygenation. You also have a heart monitor with your ECG. Then they take your blood samples. You get a little container to take your urine and then they take it away to the lab. Another nurse comes then you have to go for imaging. Scout is sort of the mothership. There's a complete emergency room in there. Every sensor you can think of we've put in there - blood pressure, ECG, infrared, three accelerometers, gyroscope, Bluetooth module, 32-bit microprocessor. This is a product that helps the doctor, partially replaces the doctor, or makes you into a citizen doctor."