If you were to visit your doctor today, that doctor might send you to a lab to get a blood test. Then you would go for a follow-up exam, but if that blood test raised other questions, you might have to go get another vial drawn from your arm. Finally, you would return for a third doctor's visit.
Three visits to the doctor and two trips to get blood drawn in a lab. That's expensive and inefficient. Between 40% and 60% of people don't even end up getting the lab tests their doctors ask them to because of the cost, time involved, and perhaps a fear of needles, according to Elizabeth Holmes, who spoke at TEDMED in September.
Holmes wants to change that.
She is a Stanford dropout who founded a company called Theranos that is trying to revolutionize the blood test. Instead of having to go to a lab to get blood drawn and then having the results interpreted by a doctor, Theranos has set up a system in which people can walk into a Walgreens pharmacy for an apparently painless fingerprick that draws a tiny drop of blood.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-of-theranos-at-tedmed-2014-11#ixzz3fdxGE16k
If you were to visit your doctor today, that doctor might send you to a lab to get a blood test. Then you would go for a follow-up exam, but if that blood test raised other questions, you might have to go get another vial drawn from your arm. Finally, you would return for a third doctor's visit.Three visits to the doctor and two trips to get blood drawn in a lab. That's expensive and inefficient. Between 40% and 60% of people don't even end up getting the lab tests their doctors ask them to because of the cost, time involved, and perhaps a fear of needles, according to Elizabeth Holmes, who spoke at TEDMED in September.Holmes wants to change that.She is a Stanford dropout who founded a company called Theranos that is trying to revolutionize the blood test. Instead of having to go to a lab to get blood drawn and then having the results interpreted by a doctor, Theranos has set up a system in which people can walk into a Walgreens pharmacy for an apparently painless fingerprick that draws a tiny drop of blood.Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-of-theranos-at-tedmed-2014-11#ixzz3fdxGE16k
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