The bioengineer academic, Stephanie Fraley, network security expert, Ashley Wilson, and entrepreneur, Dustin Fraley, attended Science Hack Day 2014 in San Francisco this past weekend to hack the problem of rapid infectious disease tracking. In most cases, it takes longer to diagnose an unknown infectious disease than it takes for a person to travel half-way around the world. Many up-and-coming biotech breakthroughs are in the works to reduce diagnostic time scales and bring tests closer to actual patients. When these technologies come on the market, the opportunity to gain real-time geographic and biological information without invasion of privacy will be a real possibility. In anticipation of this, the team developed an open source correlation engine to monitor the frequency, location, and identity of infectious diseases transmitted from the next-generation of point-of-care diagnostic devices (which Stephanie and colleagues have been developing in their labs) to extract real-time outbreak information and generate geographically accurate heat maps. This won them the San Francisco Science Hack Day 2014 Hypochondriac Award! Very fitting, congrats guys! Check out more at: http://sciencehackday.pbworks.com/w/page/86416504/sfhacks2014#hack_26
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