Prognosis
Canada’s ‘Uber for Doctors’ Targets Long Medical Wait Times
- Felix Health matches patients with doctors for prescriptions
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Canada’s taxpayer-funded health-care system has many benefits, but painfully long wait times to see a doctor isn’t one of them. This is where innovators like Felix Health Inc. see the most potential for disruption.
The seven-months old firm offers the first “asynchronous” health-care service in the country, where a patient and a doctor don’t need to meet in person to discuss a diagnosis.