Forward, a digital health startup company based in San Francisco, California, is looking to launch a number of telehealth kiosks powered by AI called CarePods at malls across the U.S., eliminating the need to go to the doctor’s office and provide a more inclusive and convenient approach to getting basic treatment.
Forbes reported yesterday that Adrian Aoun, founder of Forward, received $100 million in new funding to deliver 25 of these company doctor’s office to malls across the country.
‘The company currently charges people $149 per month to get virtual and in-person primary care’ for their in-person clinics separate from their CarePods, Forbes noted. However, unlimited access to the pods will cost $99 per month, and does not accept insurance.
Slowly but surely we’re just migrating every single thing from doctor and nurse to hardware and software. In fact, we don’t even believe a doctor’s office should exist.
We’re gonna put more healthcare on this planet than the world’s ever seen.
The way we treat our bodies, and the way we think about care, I think will sort of evolve into almost how we treat our cars. If you own your car, you’re going to maintain it, you’re going to wash it, you’re going to make sure you change the oil. And for really bad accidents, obviously, you have your insurance. But people are starting to think that way about their bodies and their health.
The key limiting factor of a doctor’s office, and I say this with all due respect, is the doctors, they’re super expensive and there’s not many of them.
Anoun explained to Forbes. He would disclose the cost to manufacture one
According to the company’s website, the CarePods and a linked app provide the following:
Receive in-person care at the CarePod where you can establish a health baseline or check in on progress through Health Apps which focus on a specific health area like heart health or mental health. Following visits to the CarePod you can work with your Care Team to establish health goals.
Following visits to the CarePod, you can review your health data with Forward doctors and adjust your personalized plan, from the comfort of your home. In our immersive Virtual Visits you’ll have dedicated time with a Forward doctor to ensure you leave with actionable steps to improve your health.
Access your health data and report new symptoms 24/7 with the support of your Care Team in the Forward app. Data from CarePod visits are reviewed by your Care Team and they’ll reach out in-app to provide support and next steps to ensure you’re on track to reach your health goals.
The company boldly says on its mission page that they aim to provide “The world’s best healthcare for one billion people, for free.” Anoun said the cost “should be $0” and he plans to “keep working to lower” the price.
David Lee, head of Samsung Next, and investor in the company, said the CarePods are “removing the friction to have a checkup.”
Forbes also noted: ‘With Forward, he’s aiming to bring his AI background to healthcare. In order to make the visit faster for the patient and the doctor, the company is using large language models, or LLMs, to digest the latest healthcare research and generate protocols in advance. For example, if a patient enters a pod and has a high blood pressure reading, they will be guided through certain steps to collect more information to help the human doctor arrive at a diagnosis or treatment.’
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
While I am certainly no fan of the doctor’s office and America’s utterly embarrassing healthcare services, I am not going to trust one of these things either. Count me out.
Also, with malls drying up across the states I’m not sure how well this is going to work.
However, the box itself is really only prove-of-concept: it’s really a foreshadowing and pretext being receiving care at home, isolated from the outside world, as patients get their check-ins and treatment virtually through AI-powered services and the metaverse.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Yeah who nows what they will due. Here is some of my testimony with the doctors office.
I have just turned 18 and haven’t been vaccinated since I was 13. I plan on staying that way. Last year when I went to the doctor as a 17 year old he said I needed this blah blah blah. The guy was such a devil. He literally started with his great fear tactics of that “I am scared of the needle,” “I need to man up,” “it’s good for me,” and many more of his vain babbling. Unfortunately for him, I know when people want to manipulate me like he was doing. I have been deceived plenty of times to know when a person is trying to delude me. I will never go back to him or any other doctor. These people want to control every thing about your life. They start by trying to make sure you do not even get conceived by your mom through contraceptives and birth control. If you do get conceived they then try to pump your mom with “special shots” that “she needs to take” when you are in her womb. Then once you get born they want to start checking off the 100 vaccines you need list. They want your mom to give you baby formula. Then the doctors want to molest you every year to check your “private area” to make sure “it is good.” Then wants to start diagnosing you with whatever they can think of to make you take pills. They start off with young people in public schools by trying to teach them “sex education” at a very young age, so they will start fornicating as young as possible. This accomplishes two things. First, they can start putting women on the nasty birth control at a very young age, maybe as young as 12. They can get them to take this nasty stuff I bet into their 50’s. I have no idea! Second, they can start making male and female take tons of nasty pills to give them a false hope that these pills will keep them from getting AIDS and many other nasty diseases. The doctors won’t tell the kids to stop fornicating. Instead they tell them “take our pills and shots.” They then try to get the kids to believe that they need to change genders. Once they “change genders” they then are absolutely sterile and cannot have children. I thank Bryan for the telling the truth about the medical industry and also you Jacob. Without this I would still be yoked up to the doctor. Romans 8:15 says, “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”
I will end with this. If you want to know what most accurately describes doctors who care for young children, this is it. Take a big sheet of paper, write Matthew 18:6 on it, and hang it above the doctors office.
Joseph, you’re a wise young man! Continue to lean upon the Lord for discernment and wisdom! Today’s doctors are nothing more than the Nazi eugenicist carry-overs from WW2. They know the shots kill but they don’t care, especially the younger ones. The Hippocratic Oath was tossed out the window many years ago. It’s no longer in force.
“Take a big sheet of paper, write Matthew 18:6 on it, and hang it above the doctors office.” That’s an excellent prescription, Bro! 🙂
Oooh look, a drive-thru doctors office, I think I will just drive on thru and throw it a cookie. Heck, we might as well get an oil change and rotation while we are at it. Would any sane man trust that?? I’ll even answer that for ya; today’s man YES, they truly do care for us…
If ya think that’s this is a good idea; I’ve got a couple of stealth fighters for sale–with cloaking devises already installed, I know ya can’t see em, because they work. hahaha
Yes it’s sarcasm
I hate doctors and doctor’s offices and I despise hospitals and America’s Vatican run health care (DEATH care) and sorcery dens called pharmacies.
I’m not stepping one foot in those Jetsons doctor’s offices, no thanks!
Several things jump off the page at me:
“Forward, a digital health startup company based in San Francisco, California…”
It is well worth contemplating that most of today’s evils originate in Calif. I wonder why? (sarcasm), and yet, their brain farts are being forced upon the rest of us.
“Covid testing is one of the many things the CarePods can check for.”
In the image, it appears the woman’s test is being done via telephone. We were led to believe the nasal plungers were necessary for determination purposes. How can a phone do that? The truth is, the nasal plungers were injecting graphene oxide into the cranial chamber where it could kill faster than many of the pokes.
Secondly, “For example, if a patient enters a pod and has a high blood pressure reading, they will be guided through certain steps to collect more information to help the human doctor arrive at a diagnosis or treatment.’”
Ditch the pods and keep the doctor, despite how useless and dangerous most of them are!
I’d like to know how these pods are going to be able to take pap smears and do cervical or more reliable digital (finger) prostate check-ups?! How are they going to continue giving the lethal injections?
$100m to place ONLY 25 if these pods?! That’s not a very wide coverage, but then again…dead bodies won’t have much need for them.
“The key limiting factor of a doctor’s office, and I say this with all due respect, is the doctors, they’re super expensive and there’s not many of them.”
Could it be that we have an increased doctor shortage because over 200 of them in Canada have been killed by the “snake bites” since they were first doled out? Could it also be a result of many of them being forced away from their professions because they wouldn’t take the lethal injections? Could there also be a doctor shortage because many of them have lost their careers for speaking out inconvenient truth about the snake bites?
See how all of this was engineered to bring about total surveillance and control? These will quickly become death pods, and more of them will be doled out. All a suicidal person will need do is walk in, turn on a switch and…”lights out”.
I was talking with a brother in British Columbia a few days ago. I was shocked to learn that the government is now hiring people to go around to collect the bodies of those who’ve overdosed on the free drugs our government is giving them. That’s no joke. There is a catch though…they have to have had all their “snake bites” before they can be hired. He didn’t believe it until he looked at the job posting himself.
Most of us here already know the world has been taken over by a death cult. Our time is getting shorter with each passing day, either naturally, or by cleverly devised schemes of the diabolic. With Jesus within, we have nothing to fear; without Him, fear will kill.