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Would you ditch your doctor for an app?

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A growing number of startups are offering ways to make health care more accessible, but to those who can afford it —companies like One Medical and Parsley Health, often require a subscription. Recode's Adam Clark Estes has been looking into the growth of telemedicine and app-based primary care over the past year and if new tech-forward primary care services are helping or harming the healthcare system here in the US. Enjoyed this episode? Rate Recode Daily and Recode Media ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. And leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This episode was made by: - Host: Teddy Schleifer - Producers: Taylor Maycan, Schuyler Swenson Support Recode Daily and Recode Media by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Healthcare in the United States has long been a mess for too many people.

0:39.0

But the pandemic forced us to rethink medicine and maybe there are ways we can make it easier.

0:45.0

And a growing number of startups are trying to find ways to make healthcare more accessible.

0:50.0

But to those who can't afford it, there are companies like One Medical or Carbon Health or Parsley.

0:57.0

They often require a subscription.

1:00.0

But with it comes access to things like 24 seven virtual care or rapid blood testing.

1:05.0

And all of these VC backed companies indeed saw explosive growth during the pandemic.

1:12.0

Recoots Adam Clark Estus has been looking into the growth of telemedicine and these app-based primary care providers over the last year.

1:21.0

Are these tech forward services helping or harming American healthcare?

1:27.0

Hey Adam.

1:28.0

Hi Teddy.

1:29.0

So let's just level set here.

1:31.0

Before we talk about these new approaches to primary care, tell me what the problem is that these tech startups are trying to solve.

1:40.0

The problem is there are too many patients and not enough primary care doctors to take care of them.

1:45.0

For primary care, a lot of patients feel like they're just going to treat a specific issue.

1:51.0

They're not going on a regular basis.

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