Call9 might save your life one day
The idea of getting healthcare via an app might seem a a bit weird but Call9's medical service might just be what you need in an emergency.
Call9 allows the physician you're in contact with real time access to your medical data and charts so they're never in the dark about your medical history.
Everybody needs healthcare. Sooner or later, you'll fall sick and only a visit to the doctor can treat you for what ails you. What if you're a student stuck in school, an elderly person in a nursing home or a guest staying at a hotel?Those aren't the typical places where you'd find a medical professional just hanging around, waiting for when their help is needed. With the amount of people at those locations though, a medical emergency happening is just a matter of time. If there's a major emergency, by the time an emergency drone reaches the patient, they could be dead. That's why Call9 seems like such a good idea.
Call9 comes in two forms, one is a custom app given to the institution that is signed up for the service. The other is a medical package that contains the basic medical equipment the on-call doctor might need to determine your condition. Call9 works by having one of the qualified staff (be it a school teacher, nursing home personnel or even a bellboy at a hotel) activate the app when there's an emergency. The app will then connect the caller to a doctor that's on duty at the time of the call.
The staff that called will then serve as the doctor's hands, guided by the doctor on-call (and through earlier basic medical training courses provided by the service) to help do what needs to be done. For example, if the doctor determines an ECG is needed, he'll simply direct the staff and guide them as they perform one on-site, using gear from the medical package that's at the location. The results of any test done is immediately uploaded to the cloud, where the doctor can then access the information in real time. If the condition's serious enough, the doctor can then dispatch an ambulance to the location while he remains online to help the patient till emergency services arrive.
Call9 isn't a free service though. Not only will the locations that opt to use the service have to pay for the initial staff training and medical package, Call9 also charges for any calls to doctors made via the app. While one might balk at the amount of spending required for something that might not even see much use, the point Call9 is trying to make is that the premium they charge is that they not only save you time in getting diagnosed, they also might be saving your life with the immediate care they're providing while emergency services arrive. In the words of one of the co-founders, Celena Tenev, “We’re building something from zero to one: we didn’t make that guy’s life easier, or get him to the hospital faster, we kept him alive.”
Right now, Call9 has finished its beta phase and is up and running.. It was on trial at certain locations in the US and the Caribbean, though with it being fully operational, the service is now open for interested parties to sign up from Call9's website.
Source: TechCruch
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