“After 4 years of intense analysis and product growth, we’re formally launching Neko Well being right this moment,” the submit learn. “The corporate was based by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek with a imaginative and prescient to create a healthcare system that may assist folks keep wholesome by preventative measures and early detection.”
In keeping with a translated model of the Neko Well being web site, the Swedish firm’s non-invasive scanner can detect and measure the expansion of birthmarks, pores and skin rashes and age spots. It additionally makes use of a separate scanner to detect any abnormalities in coronary heart operate, blood strain and pulse all through the physique.
Neko says the corporate’s 360-degree physique scanner is provided with greater than 70 sensors that accumulate greater than “50 million information factors about pores and skin, coronary heart, vessels, respiratory, microcirculation and extra.” This information is then analyzed by an “AI-powered self-learning system” that explains the outcomes to docs and sufferers. Purchasers get outcomes at their appointment and may even view and monitor their outcomes on a companion app.
“Our mission is to construct a proactive healthcare system, one which focuses on illness prevention,” Nilsonne writes in a LinkedIn submit, citing rising healthcare prices in Sweden and the European Union. The total-body scans, which Neko says solely take a couple of minutes, are presently open to the general public in Sweden and price SEK 2,000 (or about $190). Scans are presently bought out.
Ek’s foray into the healthcare trade is not precisely a shock. Rumors of the startup have been circulating since November, and Ek has lengthy hinted at getting concerned in healthcare. In 2013, a report from The Monetary Occasions revealed that Ek “spends spare hours excited about methods to repair a ‘damaged’ well being system”. “I am not the inventor, however I could be the one that’s silly sufficient to go towards the system and attempt to beat it by itself phrases,” he mentioned on the time.
It is clearly too early to inform what sort of impression Neko Well being might need on the well being trade, nevertheless it sounds promising. Comparable expertise has emerged previously, with Fb and New York College teaming as much as make MRI scans quicker utilizing AI, and researchers creating AI expertise that scans your retina and predicts your threat of coronary heart illness. However Neko Well being is utilizing this expertise on a bigger, extra accessible scale, and it is thrilling to consider its potential.