community that the product worked and had been effectively vetted by very influen- tial institutions." first and then to consumers marybeth continued visiting hospitals clinicians and providing support for trials more than 70 clinical studies concurred that exergen's temporal artery scanner worked easy to use-press and hold the button gently swipe the device across the forehead and release the button to read the tempera- ture-the product has since become the go-to device in nearly half the hospitals exergen sells more than a million temporal- scanners per year markfield design exergen imitation is the sincerest form of flattery exergen's product worked so well that other companies tried to carve out a chunk fact that we'd done many years of develop- ment and had 70 studies proving the use of the method showed juries we had done the our technology." now that exergen has conquered the slog and you've got to stick with it to make it work,” says francesco trailblazing to success “a major challenge in the beginning was of swiping the forehead to get the exact temperature was nuts," says francesco "our strategy was to get the science right and data to support it.” the exergen team collaborated with tutions to validate their theory that thermal scanning over the temporal artery at the forehead actually worked “these hospitals were all very interested the way we take temperature," says ant for convincing the rest of the medical exergen temporal- scanner thermometer montreal journalist and tv producer spreading warmth marybeth and francesco pompei along with several of their employ- the boston marathon medical team data gathered from race participants helped develop the temporal artery thermometer exergen also supplies thermome- ters to doctors without borders "marybeth works with many hospitals to supply thermometers to doctors when they donate their time and services to poor areas in different countries," says francesco "we've made it known that if you're going to donate your time and go thermometers."—wh
