Forward Brings its Personalized Healthcare Service to Los Angeles

For this blog post I chose to write about Forward, a San-Francisco based startup looking to refashion health care services. Forward is the future of health where doctors meet Silicon Valley technology. The company aims to monitor health through wearable technology and an app to give enhanced medical data. Those who wish to enroll in forward pay a monthly cost of $149 that covers unlimited access to medical staff, baseline screening, wellness and nutrition counseling and constant monitoring. Forward doesn’t aim to lower health costs but works to increase the care and treatment members have.


Forward is an innovative health model that relies heavily on technology, like most services do currently. While this startup may draw success early in its career it is not well enough established to be a fix for health insurance. Members of Forward are generally going to be the younger tech-savvy who use technology as part of everyday life. Forward is just the start of companies working to change the health system and eventually provide care at the click of a button.

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  1. Interesting. So this is concierge primary care connected with some high tech scanning?

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  2. This is an interesting startup, the younger population tend to visit the doctor less so it would be cool to see the correlation or demographics of their patients enrolled. Does this count as or serve the purpose of health insurance coverage under the ACA? I saw you stated it was not a fix for it. Or are members also paying for health insurance, or penalties for not carrying (which is actually less costly for the younger population)? Just food for thought.

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