In a recent interview with Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano, Julia Cheek, CEO of home medical testing company Everlywell, called for major reform in the U.S. lab testing sector.

"I've been fighting this battle for five years, talking about how lab testing is broken and Americans are getting screwed," Cheek said in a May nineteen podcast interview with Pompliano, adding:

"Lab testing is cheap, it can be affordable, you should know how much your tests are going to cost, menses. [...] There is no excuse for that, specially as you're having to pay for it out of pocket more and more."

Everlywell recently became the first FDA-canonical "standalone sample collection kit," a May 16 article from TechCrunch detailed.

Everlywell tests from domicile

Every bit a co-founder and partner of hedge fund Morgan Creek Digital, Pompliano noted in the interview that his company invested Everlywell several years agone.

Everywell facilitates remote medical testing. The outfit has a network of physicians on manus for outcome evaluation, Cheek explained. Customers tin visit the company'southward website and get the tests they need. The process includes providing necessary data or samples remotely, shipping them out for evaluation after.

Everlywell too provides tests for a bevy of other conditions, such as nutrient sensitivity and sexually transmitted infections.

A big topic in the upcoming presidential elections

Cheek said the current situation with COVID-19 has increased people's business organisation over testing. At times, the U.S. has shown COVID-xix testing supply scarcity. Cheek said exam scaling takes fourth dimension, calculation:

"I believe people at present have a deep interest in understanding why they tin can't become a test that should be available and nosotros tin can broaden that a lot more, in their minds, around why testing in full general is important and we're already seeing that."

The Everlywell CEO said testing may go a significant discussion point in the U.S. presidential elections subsequently this year.

Circling back to crypto near the terminate of the interview, Pompliano jokingly asked if Everlywell accepts Bitcoin as a form of payment. "We should," Cheek noted, adding, "We do not yet, I mean, many e-commence companies do."

Testing is only one event of many surrounding the global COVID-19 country. A recent article from Cointelegraph pointed toward privacy as another major boxing amid the pandemic.

Cointelegraph reached out to Everlywell for additional details, only received no response as of press fourth dimension. This article volition be updated accordingly should a response come in.