| Developers: | Uber |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | March, 2018 |
| Branches: | Pharmaceutics, medicine, health care |
2018: Uber Health start
At the beginning of March, 2018 the Uber company started service for transportation of patients of Uber Health. The new project allows to armor trips to private clinics and the medical centers for people who need medical care.
Service will help clients of the company to reach hospitals, clinics and the rehabilitation centers and to go from there by the Uber cars, even without coming into mobile application. Trips will be able to order to patients medical institutions — through a reception or administrative personnel.
 | It is not ambulance in her understanding. It quickly, reliably, but the driver of Uber will not replace the ambulance with physicians — the Uber Health project manager Chris Weber of Chris Weber (Chris Weber) noted. |  |
Began to test Uber Health 2017 in the spring. Then drivers of service instead of with a startup of Cera transported the patients having different diseases in the cases which are not requiring the emergency medical intervention.
The company says that the decision on start of Uber Health was made on the basis of demand for service. According to the report of the associate professor of economic department of the Kansas university David Skaski and the employee of Department of health care of San Diego Leon Moskatel after the new feature in Uber appeared, the quantity of calls of ambulance was reduced by 7%. The conclusion is drawn on the basis of the patients given about transportation in hospitals in 766 cities of 43 states.
Statistically, residents of the USA all thickets use taxi services to reach hospital. At the same time the volume of the American market of services of transportation of patients is estimated at $3 billion (without insurance).
Every year about 3.6 million Americans miss a visit to the doctor due to the lack of a suitable method of transportation to medical institution. In some states the share of such absences reaches 30%.
At first Uber Health will work only in the USA. In Uber do not speak about plans for expansion of geography of availability of service.[1]
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