Out-Of-Pocket: Making healthcare easy to understand.

This creates a type of hub-and-spoke model, where lower acuity cases can be taken care of in these primary stroke centers and transferred to the mothership for necessary procedures, etc.

Viz.ai is really quite a sleek product. It focuses on doing one thing very specifically, detecting Large Vessel Occlusions (LVO) which - for simplicity sake - is a type of clot that cuts blood flow to your brain, resulting in a serious stroke.

A point I’ve tried to hammer home is that tech in healthcare is only useful if enables a new workflow and as a result can change the economics of that process. For example, face-to-face telemedicine isn’t interesting because it’s the same workflow as an office visit, but asynchronous telemedicine lets you interact with many more patients and drop t... See more

In this situation time is of the essence. In one scenario, these patients will be taken to a primary stroke center, which can handle most simple stroke cases and can also assess if a patient has a more serious stroke issue, such as an LVO, that will require more complex stuff like a thrombectomy, neurosurgery, etc. Those more serious patients will ... See more