backstory<\/strong><\/p>\nforward began by opening more traditional doctor’s clinics in about 20 cities. carepods are “our gen 2 product,” aoun said.<\/p>\n
“we have over 100 doctors, and you can video with them whenever you want,” he stated.<\/p>\n
in november, forward \u2013 which is funded in part by former google ceo eric schmidt \u2013 announced that it had raised $100 million to develop and implement carepods.<\/p>\n
amazon is getting into this space as well with the amazon clinic, offering video visits and messaging with clinicians for common maladies.<\/p>\n
other services \u2013 like doctor on demand and mdlive \u2013 also offer telehealth, but without the physical locations or on-site scans and monitors.<\/p>\n
“if elon has the self-driving car, well, this is the autonomous doctor’s office,” declared aoun, a powerful technologist who had previously worked for former google ceo larry page running special projects and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
despite the global shortage of medical experts, aoun sees the carepod as a means of achieving the widespread deployment of fundamental health care services.<\/p>\n
“it’s not possible to scale physicians and nurses to the entire planet,” stated aoun, who was the founder of sidewalk labs, an urban innovation business. “so instead we said, ‘well, instead of health care being a service, maybe we should rebuild health care as a product.’<\/p>\n
“maybe we should take every single thing that doctors and nurses are doing and just slowly but surely try and migrate it over to hardware and software.”<\/p>\n
however, $99 a month is a steep price to pay for an unproven idea, and forward does not accept insurance. (aoun says he wants to reduce the price drastically.)<\/p>\n
there are several possible ethical and practical difficulties in telemedicine.<\/p>\n
a recent analysis by fair health found that nearly 30 percent of patients no longer see a primary care physician.<\/p>\n
if skin patch vaccinations are approved, forward plans to add treatments such as flu injections as it expands carepods nationwide.<\/p>\n
“we’re just going to keep going until we can deliver all this awesomeness for pennies on the dollar for the whole planet,” aoun said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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