Overview of Draft Competition Guidelines
The Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE is an incentivized competition open for approximately 3.5 years. Teams must advance through a Qualifying Round and a Final Round of judging. Up to three teams will be awarded a prize in the Final Round.
Finalist teams will compete in both a diagnostic and consumer experience evaluation during the Final Round. The Final Round evaluation will occur in the United States, although the competition is open to teams from around the world. Teams will be expected to meet baseline standards of accuracy and functionality, but the winning entries will be the ones that score the highest in the diagnostic contest. To emphasize the importance of consumer use and adoption, only the five highest scoring teams from the consumer experience evaluation will be eligible to win.
The winners will be the (up to) three solutions achieving the highest diagnostic score regarding a set of 15 distinct diseases in a group of 15-30 people in three days (see Guidelines for full details). This diagnosis must be performed in the hands of a consumer, independently of a healthcare worker or facility.
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Public Comment Period
The draft Competition Guidelines are based on primary and secondary research as well as approximately 100 interviews with X PRIZE Foundation advisors. These preliminary guidelines are open for public review and comment until June 30, 2012. Final competition guidelines for the Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE will be made available in approximately September 2012.
X PRIZE competitions are structured to push the boundaries of what is thought to be possible, what is accepted, and what is held as common knowledge. The X PRIZE Foundation recognizes that there may be a range of views on the mechanisms for conducting an audacious competition, and encourages teams and the general public to participate in this feedback process. All comments will be considered, but a response to all comments is not guaranteed.