Veronique Mastey
Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Role(s):
SOS MedlinK
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Location:
Los Angeles
Industry:
Healthcare
Year Founded:
2002
Number Employees:
INVALID
Description:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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For several hundred years, the practice of medicine was delivered in the patient's home. It made sense: sick people can't or don’t want to go anywhere, let alone wait in an emergency room for several hours in the middle of the night. The entire doctor-patient relationship was confined to the privacy of the home - a fact that has been an unfortunate casualty of modern American healthcare.
The market opportunity is significant. The U.S. is the only developed country in the world not to offer the public urgent, non-emergency medical treatment at home. Over $120 billion annually (approximately 10% of the entire national healthcare budget) is spent at Emergency Room facilities in nighttime care alone. Over 70% of these visits are not emergenci