The Phone Oximeter -- Phone and Sensor (IMAGE)

Terry Collins Assoc

The Phone Oximeter -- Phone and Sensor

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LionsGate Technologies, a Vancouver-based social enterprise, has secured its first major financial backers -- the Canadian Government-funded Grand Challenges Canada, together with private investors -- to scale up development of the Phone Oximeter™, an app and sensor turns a non-specialist, community-level health worker's smartphone, tablet computer or laptop into an affordable and simple but sophisticated medical-grade diagnostic tool typically available in the developing world only in some hospitals.

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