A journalist tries out a new health pod that uses advanced technology to scan the body and predict future health risks. The pod aims to be a preventative healthcare tool, identifying potential issues early on.
n the 2016 movie Passengers, the crew of a spacecraft bound for a distant planet had access to a scanning chamber known as Autodoc that could instantly diagnose their medical problems and even predict the time of their death.
Neko’s co-founder and chief executive, Hjalmar Nilsonne, said: “Since 70% of healthcare costs are tied to chronic diseases, which are largely preventable or can be greatly delayed by early interventions, it seems pretty obvious that the healthcare system everybody actually wants is a preventive one that creates health, rather than being a medicine dispenser for the people who are already sick.
Patients’ grip strength and eye pressure is also measured, then a small sample of their blood is taken and sent via vacuum tube to a lab upstairs for processing. Finally, these thousands of data points are crunched by artificial intelligence and delivered to an in-house GP, who makes the final health assessment and delivers it to the customer 15 minutes later.
Prof Louise Thomas, the head of the University of Westminster’s Research Centre for Optimal Health, agreed that the potential for these types of scans was vast. “Early diagnosis of disease is hugely important and could potentially reduce the burden on the NHS,” she said.Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian
However, Majeed said that “dealing with the rapid developments in private medical assessments will be challenging for the NHS and it is essential that these assessments add value to people’s health and do not create additional work without clear benefits”.
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