AI powered Care Pods- New Revolution'

 New AI-powered doctor's office allows patients to draw blood, take vitals&It's a new revolution to bridge the last mile gap and new experience to the accessibility of care !

How it works: First, the machine takes baseline readings of your metabolic functions so it can assess how you're doing over time.

• When you step inside, "it basically loads up a bunch of different apps for you to play with," Adrian Aoun, founder and CEO of Forward, tells Axios.
• "Let's say you choose the body scan app." he continued. "This is pretty cool. It's like, 'Please stand still,' and then it rotates you in a circle, takes a whole bunch of readings, shows you those readings on the screen, explains them to you."
• If you choose the "heart health" app, "it actually opens a tray and hands you a sensor, shows you how to hold that sensor against your heart, takes the readings, then explains them to you."

When asked how patients would draw their own blood inside a CarePod, Aoun whipped out a small vacuum chamber that suctioned to his upper arm and siphoned out a small sample.

• "In two to four minutes, this starts to fill up with blood," he said. "There's no needle, there's no knife, and nothing hurts right now."
• Aoun, who is not a doctor, called the device a "capillary blood draw" and made comparisons to a "leech or hickey."

Skin scans and mental health screenings are also on the CarePod menu, and more tests will be added over time.

• "We're constantly launching new sensors," Aoun said. "So almost think of us a little like the iPhone" in the early days of the App Store.
• According to Forward's literature, CarePods use "proprietary digital technology and AI-supported clinician reviews to develop highly personalized health plans and track progress via mobile phones."

Backstory: Forward began by opening more traditional doctor's clinics in about 20 cities. CarePods are "our Gen 2 product," Aoun said.

• "We have over 100 doctors, and you can video with them whenever you want," he said.
• Forward, which counts former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as an investor, announced in November that it had raised $100 million to build and deploy CarePods.

Zoom out: Amazon is getting into this space as well with Amazon Clinic, offering video visits and messaging with clinicians for common maladies.

• Other services — like Doctor on Demand and MDLive — also offer telehealth, but without the physical locations or on-site scans and monitors.