On Demand Health Services
As straight-forward as ordering a ride with Uber or Lyft - TechCrunch
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When the Waiting Room Is Your Living Room
Businesses can deliver everything on demand, from dinner to dry cleaning. Some will even show up at your door to give you cupcakes or walk your dog. Now, entrepreneurs are exploring a growing niche: health care.
Start-ups are offering access to doctors, prescription drugs and wellness programs as fast and easy as hailing an Uber driver. Experts say this is the early stages of a movement that could disrupt the health services industry, which critics have long contended suffers from soaring costs and reduced access to care. Seven in 10 Americans in a recent Gallup poll said they believed health care was “in a state of crisis” or had “major problems.”
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A MacArthur “genius” grant winner is now formally studying how hot-spotting method cuts expensive emergency room visits and delivers better care.
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What goes around, comes around. It was routine in the 1950’s for doctors to make house calls and deliver a high level of service to their patients. Well, here we are in 2021, and we might be going back in time, not just to deliver better services but to cut costs from a bloated healthcare system. The Home Care Providers industry is among the fastest growing healthcare industries in the United States.
Uber for Health Care? Think Again
Health care is at an interesting juncture. Current practices in health care are fragmented, cumbersome, and often archaic. Society and the medical community realize that there has to be more effective and efficient ways to deliver care. In turn, there has been significant entrepreneurial and investment activity in health care delivery. Rather than simply looking at health care as a huge market in which to make money though, I hope entrepreneurs and investors will pursue and support innovation that addresses fundamental, unmet needs.
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