The Future of Health Care is Here
It's amazing what can happen when third-party payment is not involved:
For $35 per month, members gain access to Hello Health's website….. Unlike most health IT platforms, Hello Health looks more like Flickr or Facebook than, say, Windows 95. Members can IM and email with their doctors, make appointments online, and access their digital health record, which includes blog-post style, doctor-authored summaries of each appointment.
Members are guaranteed appointments within 24 hours of scheduling, and can choose between visiting the office, receiving a house call, or, for minor illnesses or follow-up sessions, videoconferencing with a doc. Hello Heath doesn't take insurance (though patients with coverage are free to submit bills to insurers on their own), and all appointment fees are set in advance – $100 to $200 depending on the complexity of the visit, with lab tests and generic meds included in the price.
It sounds like just another market for professional services – with no need for conferences, speeches, laws or regulations.
Innovations are why Entrepreneurs are amazing!
Consumers need more freedom and doctors need more freedom, so ideas like this will proliferate instead of providing single/lonely, yet welcome, beacons of hope.
Government puts the “NO” in innovation.
Who would have guessed trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn would have been such a hotbed of innovation.
My guess is if these guys want to keep up, they’ll have to re-locate to Bushwick next.
Thanks for the mention John!