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Imagine Cup 2012: Team Australia “Stethocloud” diagnoses pneumonia with Windows Phones With it’s home base advantage, the Australian team is a hot contender at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2012 worldwide finals in Sydney, trying to decrease the number one cause of childhood deaths with a Windows Phone-powered health solution. This afternoon team Stethocloud presented their first presentation to a packed room of judges and supporters, including but not limited to many of Microsoft Australia’s developer evangelism team and Pip Marlow, Managing Director of Microsoft Australia. Their 30-minute presentation was very similar to their Australian finals presentation which I saw a few months ago. The problem they are tackling is pneumonia, which kills nearly 2 million children due to a lack of early detection. Their solution is centred around a custom “stethomic” stethoscope they built that plugs straight into an ubiquitous 3.5mm audio jack of most phones. Even in developed countries, trained healthcare professionals have trouble accurately diagnosing pneumonia.