Today we are launching Neko Health, the company Daniel Ek and I have been working on for the past four years. Our mission is to build a proactive healthcare system, one that is focused on preventing diseases. In Sweden healthcare costs have increased 50% faster than GDP since the year 2000, and in 28 of 32 EU countries the increase has been even faster. This has resulted in an unreasonable burden on medical staff to do more every year, and fewer resources than ever for prevention and public health. Solving this is one of the most important, and difficult, problems for humanity going forward. We believe that the solution is to move away from reactively treating the sick, and moving towards prevention and helping people stay healthy. Since 1965 it has been mandated by law that you have to bring in your car for regular inspection. But when it comes to our health and bodies, we let them crash before we start dealing with the problem. We think a better way is possible. We have been working on a new non-invasive medical scanner, engineered by Neko from the ground up. So starting today, people who have skin and heart concerns can experience the Neko Body Scan and get an extensive examination of their health at our health center on Regeringsgatan 61 in central Stockholm. If you're interested, I hope you'll consider trying it, I think you're going to love it! You can read more on www.nekohealth.com. Thanks!
Kul projekt! Läkarkåren är väl lite delad när det kommer till generell ”screening”. Har för mig att man resonerar som att den mentala nedsidan av att upptäcka saker (som inte utvecklas till något) är större än den nytta man gör på de få som faktiskt fångar upp. Personligen har jag landat i att screening funkar väldigt bra på människor som är lågt neurotiska. Det finns så klart olika områden där det lämpar sig bättre än andra men det hela är väl lite mer komplex än att jämföra med årlig service på en bil tyvärr.
Thank you for sharing. If the increased cost of healthcare has resulted in proportionally improved health, then that will result in increased economic productivity. If spending has gone up, but health hasn't, it's often because spending is determined based on scientific papers instead of real-world results. Early detection is vital for disease prevention since disease treatment has stagnated over the past few decades. Data collection and data processing will be a critical backbone of this process. We don't know what data will result in desired outcomes. Perhaps it's blood test results, social determinants of health, or imaging data, as with Neko Health. Total body scanning developed a bad reputation in the 90s when MRI and CT shops were set up in malls only for physicians to deal with many false positive findings. But we essentially flushed that data down the drain instead of following those patients to see which were genuine false positives and which could have benefited from further intervention. Unlike the automotive industry, human biology doesn't change with every new make and model. The data we collect should be made available to all and not hidden behind HIPAA or other PHI laws.
Instead of alleviating pressure on our health systems this will probably just add to it. All scans find ‘something’, will Neko help ‘solve’ them or just refer the patient to the already struggling general practitioners and public hospitals?
Interesting invention. Scanning.. Still again only attending to already visible (heart and skin problems) physical manifestation of our dis-ease state ie. whats already happening inside of our body,mind and self - the emotional, trauma based, existential, programmed fear based believes - bottled down by us deep inside so that is fundamental to our physical wellbeing and that needs to be addressed by self awareness and self practice of constant release and surrender. I am very interested to understand more what you have built and how your discovery preventive path has been incorporated into using this technology findings for individual as wellas collective. I believe lots of these inventions are a miss in truly helping as they are not fully integrated into the process of healing - cause/effect/resolution. There are so many variables here.. this is exciting and congratulations. I ook forward to learn and understand more about yours and Daniel Ek venture.
Where can I read about your clinical research protocols? What aims, what is the comparision ( golden standards?), and what heart variabels are collected, who perform the heart examination ( echo-AI- method?) Very interesting! Good luck!!
Fantastic to see Neko live, wow. Disruption on its way‼️ Hjalmar Nilsonne – already met with your guys, but when ripe and ready, feel free to contact us at Swedish Funmed Group for a collaboration around precision health. Our medical clinics 🏥have served >2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ patients with heavily datadriven and structured #functionalmedicine since 2014. We are setting a new standard for healthcare in our digiphysical membership model run by doctors, nurses and health coaches. Our approach and extensive clinical mapping of patients (questionnaires/blood/urine/stool/breath/metabolomics etc) is indeed complementary to your high-tech scanning. Further, functional medicine is all about correcting the UNDERLYING causes of disease, optimizing physiology and building #health💪🏻 Hence, #prevention is inherent in the FM model. All the best, Funmed will for sure send patients your way🙂
Congrats on the launch 🍾
This is an interesting approach! It is worth people care about their health while they are healthy - this is the smartest way to sick for the so called healthspan! At Agesb Bioactive, our porpuse is to help people to expand their healthspan through healthy habits (good diet, good sleep, daily physical activity, mental and social health). In order to contriibute to these journey we reasearch, produce and sale bioactives from the biggest biome: the Amazon rain florest. Acess www.agesbioactive.com to learn more. Congrats and all the success in this new venture!!!
Love, love, love the idea, preventive healthcare is really the future of health. I noticed that you need a BankID to schedule an appointment. Any plans for lifting the requirement? I am often travelling to Stockholm and would love to give it a go. Also how do you deal with user data? Are you using data for anything else besides the diagnosis or the visit itself?
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1yThat looks awesome, Hjalmar Nilsonne. Will definitely follow you closely going forward! 🙂 Heart and skin changes sound like smart areas to start with; detectable and meaningful to address early. Out of curiosity, how are you planning to balance potential overdiagnosis against the risk of false negatives when applied on a mass scale?