Swedish digital health start-up Kry has launched a video consultation app in the U.S., marking the firm's first expansion beyond Europe.
The Stockholm-based company is one of Europe's largest digital health care providers, facilitating 1.8 million consultations to date. ItsKry — known in English-speaking markets as Livi — isn't bringing its main app to the States. Instead, it's rolling out Livi Connect, a free video consultation platform with less features, in response to a spike in demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
"It's needed at times of crisis," he added. "Every single consultation that can be done online should be done online. There's a lack right now of safe and secure tools that are built for this."thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. With citizens across the globe sheltering in place due to lockdown restrictions, patients are being encouraged to instead undergo triage and see their doctors remotely over the phone or online.
"The U.S. is the world's largest health market," Parsa said in an interview last month. "You cannot be a global winner in digital health without being a winner in the United States. The math doesn't work."
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