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Are you just automating lab reporting and results faster? That doesn’t exactly improve the health of others, a faster lab does not cure an ailment or provide a better cure.

Like cool my lung xray only took minutes to determine if I have a lesion instead of a week or a few days, but I still have cancer.

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For some people, getting lung cancer reported a week earlier will save their lives.

More importantly, if you can screen for cancer in a way that takes minutes instead of a week, imagine how accessible this technology will become.

Faster scans means more scans. More scans means getting scans earlier and tracking abnormalities on scans over time. This can lead to earlier intervention, which means you get treatment for the cancer when it’s stage 2 instead of stage 3 or 4, which maybe is the difference between living a full life and dying young.

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