Forward

Doctors that listen, empower and inspire.

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Doctors that listen, empower and inspire.

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Forward is primary care done differently. Partner on your health with doctors supported by cutting-edge technology.

Launch tags:Web App•Health & Fitness•Artificial Intelligence

Launch Team

Forward

Maker

Hi Product Hunters, I’m the CEO and Founder of Forward. I was biking down to work a few years ago when I learned a close relative of mine had suffered a heart attack. What I saw while helping him recover would probably be obvious to most of you: that doctors lack the tools that we in the engineering world take for granted. There was a total lack of data-driven decision making and the experience as a consumer was really troubling. With a few friends of mine from Google and Uber, we decided to try to go after the problem from first principles. We realized very quickly that defragmenting the world of healthcare would be impossible and that the underlying incentives were really twisted, so we ended up rebuilding everything in a “full stack” way - we’re a software company, a hardware company, and we ourselves are the medical practice and employ physicians and nurses. Here’s some of what we built: - We built our own body scanner that rapidly gathers data about you and feeds it to your Forward doctor and to your phone, replacing the need for manually gathering vital signs by hand - We do blood testing on-site and give you results within 12 minutes. That data is also captured in a structured way and attached to your health record - Our doctors, who come from Stanford, Kaiser, Sutter, etc. work with you to build a plan incorporating your data and health goals. There’s an app running on a screen inside the room that shows you what’s happening and helps you collaborate with the doctor - Our app gives you 24x7 access to your doctor and a care team with doctors/nurses to answer questions and take care of follow-ups no matter where you are and what you’re up to - We ingest data from any of your health connected devices via Apple Health / Google Fit so that we can keep an eye on your health on an ongoing basis if you want us to - our system uses all the structured data we gather to flag issues to you and your Forward care team - We’re direct-to-consumer and don’t bill insurance for anything that we do. It’s $149/month billed annually and that includes everything, so there aren’t any random charges/bills in the mail and our customers are people, not their insurance companies :) Our first location is at 180 Sutter St. in SF’s financial district. We’re opening our doors today and would love to show you around if you want to swing by! Let me know what questions you have about the tech or the product! Adrian

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9yr ago

Tweet-a-Cake by NotPie

An area painfully in need of disruption - I'm really looking forward to seeing how this rolls out, especially as you make your way towards Santa Cruz

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9yr ago

Perspective

If there is one area that is in desperate need of development, that's the medical sector. It's really great to see you guys coming up with what seems to be a very ambitious project which has the potential to be game-changing. But you've still got a really long way to go, so a big GOOD LUCK from me!

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9yr ago

VC Puzzle

Hunter

Forward is a new kind of healthcare company, a health membership, that gives you access to world-class doctors and new technology. Read more about what they're up to here 💫 https://medium.com/goforward/hea...

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9yr ago

VC Puzzle

Hunter

Cool tweet to see from @km https://twitter.com/km/status/80...

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9yr ago

Braavo

Well it sure looks gorgeous...

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9yr ago

Forward

Maker

@ggnall Thanks! We have fantastic designers from Uber and Frog working on the UI and the physical space itself.

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9yr ago

Crypterval

@ilyaabyzov @ggnall really does look nice. Just a small thing, but could you get them to add a favicon and maybe some Open Graph meta tags. This will help continue the beauty when sharing it with others via iMessage etc 😅

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9yr ago

Forward

Maker

@nagra__ Thanks! I do see a favicon on our page - not sure why that isn't showing up :( I'll work on the meta tags.

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9yr ago