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MIT's portable fingernail scanner can reduce cancer hospitalization by 50% | PointCheck, a portable fingernail scanner, empowers patients to track their white blood cell levels and detect early signs of infection.
MIT has developed PointCheck, a groundbreaking portable device that non-invasively monitors white blood cells during chemotherapy.
The significance of cancer and finding solutions to improve treatment strategies inspired a group of researchers from MIT to develop portable monitor that has been designed to help patients track their white blood cell count. During his clinical rotations, Castro-Gonzalez discovered that many patients could tolerate higher doses of chemotherapy, which initially led him to the MIT linQ health care innovation program. Resembling a futuristic fingerprint scanner, the PointCheck is an optics-based device, according to MIT’s Office of Innovation, “that can see through the skin and count white blood cells as they flow past a miniature lens.”
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