“We're pretty darn transparent about what we do and how it works.”

“Everything they did was a secret,” he said of Theranos. Investor scrutiny of health-tech startups is likely to be heightened in the wake of that scandal, but Nilsonne said he's confident Neko Health's backers see how different an approach he and Ek are taking. The same couldn't be said of Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of blood-testing startup Theranos. This is very much the world I grew up in.” “My grandfather had his own clinic here in Stockholm over a hundred years ago, both of my parents are doctors and professors, and my oldest brother is a doctor and a neuroscientist. “I come from a family of doctors,” he said. But Neko Health will focus on in-clinic assessment for now, with on-site medical experts to review and advise client results, Nilsonne said. We have a doctor on site who can make qualified medical judgments for anything that comes up.”Ĭovid-19 had been a boon for companies like telehealth startup Ro - also backed by General Catalyst - as patients sought virtual care from the safety of their homes. “We have dermatologists employed just to review the skin images. “We have our own nurses, doctors and specialists,” Hjalmar Nilsonne, Neko Health's other co-founder and its CEO, said in an interview. About 80% of customers have pre-paid for follow-up scans in a year's time. The company has performed more than 1,000 scans since launch, but Nilsonne said thousands more are on a waiting list. Patients pay €250 for a full-body examination that takes 10-to-20 minutes, followed by a review with a doctor. The company's first clinic opened in February in Stockholm. It incorporates dozens of sensors that, when combined with the company's artificial intelligence software, can give instant results about potential skin conditions, such as moles, as well as warning signs related to cardiovascular health. Neko Health runs private clinics kitted out with proprietary and off-the-shelf diagnostic products, most notably its own full-body 3D scanner.

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