By leveraging technological advances in wireless monitoring, artificial intelligence, and affordable point-of-care biomedical processes, new opportunities in consumer-driven, in-home, medical diagnostic tools are not only possible, but they are the future of health care.
Many of us have spent hours navigating through a disjointed, complicated health care system, the failures of which are frustrating to both patients and providers. What if, instead of waiting several weeks to get an appointment with your primary care doctor or waiting for hours in an overcrowded Emergency Department, the first step in diagnosing your health was done by you, in your own home? Savvy consumers are demanding more from a health care system in dire need of improvements in access to care.
Drawing on years of experience as an Emergency Department physician, Basil Leaf Technologies Founder, Basil Harris, understands how the U.S. health care system is on an unsustainable course, rife with disjointed, uncoordinated care, added costs from unnecessary or duplicative medical testing, and little opportunity for patients to be meaningfully engaged in their own health. He knows that once you strip away the action part of an ED–the trauma, hemorrhaging, and cardiac arrests – you are left with the other 90% of patients who may not have an “emergency” or be in imminent danger, but are looking for a timely diagnosis and a course of action. A surprising number of people today have nowhere else to get this help.
Basil Leaf Technologies is currently developing DxtER™ (pronounced Dexter), a portable, consumer-level device capable of collecting and interpreting large amounts of data to accurately diagnose specific medical conditions, provide users with real-time insight regarding their health, and guide them to appropriate action. There is nothing like it in existence and we believe it will change the face of health care.
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