Medical Lab on Demand

August 1, 2016
A new take on mobile health

A new startup seeks to make getting blood drawn for medical tests comparable to ordering a pizza or an Uber.

In the near future, you could find yourself using an app to order transportation of a different sort—transportation which delivers a phlebotomist to your home to draw your blood. Iggbo, a Richmond, Virginia-based startup, hopes to change the lab work industry by providing patients the ability to order a mobile phlebotomist for a convenient at-home blood draw. The startup expects such simplicity and accessibility to dramatically increase the percentage of patients who follow through on getting ordered blood tests.

Read more at Popular Science.