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"Waiting for months for an appointment and even after an appointment, is the long wait time in the waiting room worth it?"
Why We Started
I was inspired to start ProximaCura when we visited a South Asian country, and I became ill with malaria. I was running a very high fever and was in no shape to travel or visit a doctor. The relative whom I was visiting called a doctor, and the doctor gladly made a house call to see and treat me. This is a common practice where it is expected for doctors to make house calls.
Then in 2021, immediately after COVID-19 travel restrictions were lifted, we visited a Central American country and to fulfill the requirement of COVID testing before entering the US, we called a local laboratory for COVID test. The laboratory technician came to our hotel room to do the COVID test. In contrast to this experiance, a few years ago when my primary physician decided to retire, I was searching for another physician here in the US. All the physicians I looked up were not accepting new patients and the one who was accepting new patients did not have any available appointments for three to five months. When I finally got an appointment and went for my annual physical, I was able to see the doctor for less than five minutes. It was very evident that the doctor was trying to see as many patients as possible.
After these experiences, I wondered if we could create a healthcare system that can be a blend of all the scenarios described above - the world best healthcare with house calls from healthcare providers. At ProximaCura, our mission is to empower individuals to achieve a healthy and happy life through convenience and affordability. We have developed a platform where healthcare professionals can offer their services by making house calls focusing on holistic health rather than quantitative healthcare. Patients can subscribe to ProximaCura and have access to healthcare at a fixed monthly subscription. When they subscribed to the service, they are assigned a team of healthcare providers who would check in with them on a weekly basis and will make a house call once every month. This arrangement enables continuous healthcare with a better patient-provider relationship. We believe this continuous patient-provider interaction helps improve patient health while providing greater satisfaction to providers without worrying about bureaucracy and insurance hindrances.
38% of Americans, and 54% between the age of 35 and 49, skip or delay their healthcare needs
43% of Americans are dissatisfied with their healthcare system
Long wait times contributes to patient dissatisfaction leading to poor health care outcome
Since the year 2000, medical costs have increased by 4.85% each year
Personalized Care
ProximaCura is the first-ever service that promises to bring healthcare to the homes of the American population at a fraction of the cost of their current healthcare. The service ensures weekly follow-up and monthly check-up by professional healthcare providers so you don’t have to worry about scheduling or long wait times. This values-based healthcare reduces stress on our health care professionals and provides peace of mind to patients. No insurance is required to subscribe to the service, and there is no hidden cost. Pay a fixed monthly subscription and you are entitled to receive pre-scheduled healthcare service.
ProximaCura platform utilizes predective analytics with Artificial Intelligance that can analyze patterns in a patient's medical history and current health data to predict potential health risks. This predictive capabilities of the platform enables healthcare providers to offer proactive, preventative care which ultimately results into better patient outcome and reduction in healthcare costs.
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