Leveraging technology in bringing the future of healthcare to Filipinos
Lab@Home seeks to bring the power of technology to serve a growing demographic of patients who require at-home healthcare services, such as elderly adults If there’s any silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has definitely accelerated the application of modern technology to meet the emerging need for at-home, on-demand medical diagnostics, since people have been mandated to shelter in place or are otherwise afraid to go out regardless as they might contract the deadly disease. This is an insight shared by Toshi Zialcita, operations head of Lab@Home, a start-up mobile diagnostics provider that launched just when the pandemic was declared by the second quarter of 2020. The company affirms that there has definitely been a surge in demand for home service lab tests since then. He clarifies though that plans to roll out Lab@Home had already been in place even before COVID-19 broke out. “The timing could be called fortuitous but we also see it as an affirmation of our foresig...