“Daniel Ek was looking for someone with a screw loose”
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- Hjalmar Nilsonne, a co-founder of Stockholm-based Neko Health, is building what he describes as the preventive health clinic of the future.
- Neko Health’s screening includes skin scanning, blood measurements, grip-strength testing and an ECG.
- The clinic calls its customers members rather than patients and uses a highly designed environment intended to calm them.
Hjalmar Nilsonne once dropped out of high school and swore he would never work in healthcare. Today, he is building what the article describes as the preventive health clinic of the future.
At Neko Health on Regeringsgatan in Stockholm, visitors enter in blue plastic shoe covers and move through a space of butter-yellow ceilings and walls. Carpeting softens the sound, while piano music is intended to calm the nervous system. The setting feels, the article says, like stepping onto a spaceship.
Nilsonne, one of Neko Health’s founders, guides the visitor to a "debrief room." There, Neko Health members meet a doctor after completing the company’s health screening, which includes everything from a skin scan to blood measurements, grip-strength testing and an ECG.
Daniel Ek was looking for someone with a screw loose
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Originally published by Svenska Dagbladet in Swedish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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