Medx Health Corp V.MDX

Medi-Collective vs Getskinhelp experience

[Dunworkin2]

Follow up:

A couple weeks ago, while at moms, I emailed the Medicollective location in Kitchener asking about Siascopy. To date, I have received zero response to my email.

Same day, I downloaded the Getskinhelp app, populated my personal information, which included submitting a photo of my health card (I wasn't overly comfortable doing it, due to security of information concerns, but did so all the same),and used my iPhone to send in 3 photos of my suspicious mole.
I received an invite for a video consultation with a doctor and completed the consultation this morning. The doctor is a plastic surgeon, located in Toronto, he thought that given my history, the mole should be removed and offered up a surgery date of tomorrow. I asked how he was able to arrive at the conclusion that it should be removed. He said given my history, better to cut it out. 

At this point I told him that I would follow up with my local dermatologist. Honestly, it felt like he gets paid to cut, so let's cut it out. I'd rather not cut, unless it is needed. (I have had three moles removed from my back over the past 15 years, the first was cancerous, the last two, not).

So, good news is that it was a fairly quick service. All consultation costs were covered by Ohip. If you are in agreement to cutting suspicious moles, they offer a quick service, 2-3 weeks from first contact to completion.

Disappointing that a dermatologist didn't examine my photos and it felt like the decision to cut was a business decision. 

I think that the Siascopy route with Mdx offers a better service in that a dermatologist will look at your photos which were taken with a class 2 medical device and provide an unbiased recommendation. Hopefully.

I think MediCollective might still be working out some start up kinks given their lack of response to my email (and others here have posted similar poor initial experiences with them). 

I do think that Mdx needs to be more hands on with the Medicollective locations and all other siascopy clinics to make sure all staff are up to speed and providing good service.

In fairness to Mdx, and Paul Ziemer, they treated me excellently and provided top notch, over and above service in getting a siascopy arranged for my mother earlier on (which in the end she declined to pursue). 

Conclusion:
In my opinion, Siascopy is the better way to go.
But Mdx should ensure that Siascopy centres offer a choice of packages. Given customers are paying out of pocket, if I only want one mole scanned, there should be a cheaper price for one scan. Currently it's 4 scans for $249, (or $149 with a doctor referral).
Why not also offer a price of $40 or $50 for one scan.

[Insightful1]

This has been a really excellent post. Thank you for the feedback. I did some digging on the Getskin app and you are correct this is a plastic surgeon gaming the system. Theydo not have a network of dermatologists assessing the mole or lesion in question. I can assure you the images provided by a video camera are not of high enough quality to render a proper assessment. Even though the consult was

[Dunworkin2]

Interesting, to close the loop, I received the following email from the MediCollective Kitchener today in regards to my request for a Siascopy.    Thank you for your email inquiry.    We currently have two family physicians available who are accepting new patients, if you are still interested. Please feel free to refer to our clinic website for more information about

[Insightful1]

So it looks like they have the patient pathway sorted out. It would be interesting to have a shareholder with a suspicious mole go through the MedX experience and report back their findings.The share price like the market is under heavy selling pressure as people head to the sidelines and cash.. As long as MedX continues to deploy units the closer they wil be to cash flow positive and hopefully

[pantono1]

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[prested]

Thanx for the post. I think it answers for me some of the questions I had about the ability of this company to clearly enunciate and perform. No sense of urgency in anything they do. They had better get moving becuase they will not be the only people offering this service.

[hopefull]

to its a great service for medi collective patient not the general mass. Shoppers was the way to go on that front but that option is no longer. Hopefully another large option to do mass scans appears

[Insightful1]

Two quick points, MedX big differentiation is its ability to scan pigmented lesions and without compression send them across the internet secureley to be read by a Dermatologist. If you read the experience of Dunworkin you will see that the site has mostly plastic surgeons and 1 derm. The plastic surgeon is merely talking to the patient and saying I"I can cut that out for you" it is a

[hopefull]

I'm open to you shedding your extensive knowledge on when you see Medx post reasonable earnings without an option of a large pharmacy chain.

[Dunworkin2]

This will be my final post on the Getskinhelp app. I received an email from them today. Their marketing and approach is very professionally done. I can see many people using their services.  Here is the email: I copied most of the narrative, they also include all their social media links (which I don't copy) so it is very professional and interactive.  

[Insightful1]

This group should be run out of town. The below quote is outragious, to suggest their AI can analyse skin lesions is an out and out lie. I will reach out and ask them for their peer reviewed research that provides the proves their AI can analyse skin cancer.If that were even remotely true this would be in every dermatology jourmnal in the world. Do you think a surgeon would be video-conferencing