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I have a few important questions to ask. In your May 13 reply to Michelle Greenwood, you said “Once we reach 10 patients per/day/clinic, we are operationally profitable on per clinic basis (the breakeven is 8 to 9 patients/day).” Assuming a town population of 3,000 and using 5 workday-week as a rule, 10 patients per/day/clinic means during a year, there will be 10 patient visits x 5 days per week x 50 weeks in a year (assuming 2 weeks off for holidays, etc.) = 2,500 patients per/year/clinic. This 2,500 patient visits are almost the same as the town population of 3,000. 1) Is it realistic to assume that everyone in the town will visit your clinic? Or, let’s assume that every patient will have two visits to the clinic, that is still 1,250 patients or 42% of the town’s population. Is it realistic to assume that 42% of the town’s population will visit your clinic? 2) What are the biggest costs of your clinic and how can these be reduced to make your clinic profitable? -John Hwung","author_name":"John Hwung","votes":2,"created_at":"2021-05-19T10:12:49Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/emd.health.center#question-149620","answers":[{"id":149995,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:149995","answer":"Thank you John for the question. We plan to put clinics in anchor towns of 3,000 to 5,000 population. These towns have high school, grocery stores, restaurants and a pharmacy. The surrounding small towns and unincorporated rural communities generally doubles the serviceable population from 3,000 to 6,000. The average insured patient visits a doctor 4 times a year. If we assume 80% of the population have insurance and they visit on average 4 times it would be 19,200 visits per year for the 6,000 population. The CDC data from 2016 shows 45.5% patient visits are for specialty care and it is increasing as lot more specialty physicians are entering medical practice than primary care. There are currently twice as many specialty physicians than primary care in Texas. Assuming an even split you have 9,600 possible specialty patient visits from this location with little or no local presence of specialty physician service. If EMD clinic can serve 26% of the population over a period 12 to 18 months we would reach 10 patients/day/clinic. Since the majority of the population has insurance and the cost to them is small compared to the benefit they receive we believe it is realistic for them to try especially the older folks who have multiple ailments. The link below \"towardsdatascience\" (Fig 3. Fig N-1 \u0026amp; Fig N-2) shows the multiple ailments as people age and the rural population is more vulnerable due to their older age, smoking, obesity and nutrition compared to urban population. We believe by providing service regarding referral, insurance authorization and appointments for multiple ailments we are in a unique position for the patients to conveniently see multiple specialists through the same staff and the same clinic. This is difficult even in the urban area because one clinic staff is not interested in doing all these things for the patients to get service at a different clinic practicing another specialty, and they end up not following through all referrals, insurance authorizations and getting desired appointments. The two employees in the EMD clinic improve the efficiency by saving time of the physicians and the patients. The trained medical assistant follows the protocol to present the patient for examination to the remote physician in a consistent and time efficient manner. The front office person checks in the next patient, collects the payment and preps them for examination. After the patient examination is completed and treatment plan is explained to the patient, the front office person sends/give the prescription, give instructions, follow-up, lab or imaging appointments. So trained Medical assistant or technician saves the physicians time and the front office person saves patients time by taking care of appointments and insurance. Our goal with the 5 initial clinics is to get good patient traction rather than making patients do the task which they are not currently performing. The online telehealth coming directly to the patients home did not do well with the majority of the patients because they were not ready to be responsible for connection issues, taking their own vitals with their own equipment and making appointments and dealing with insurance issues. We can do a zoom meeting to go over detailed spreadsheets on a county by county basis for population, insurance, physicians, clinic operation costs with patient visit models, location selection issues and future rollout of clinics and cash flow models. https://www.statista.com/statistics/683751/frequency-of-doctors-visits-for-check-ups-by-age-us/ https://www.stellartransport.com/often-average-senior-visit-doctor/ https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/09/01/comorbidities-and-coronavirus-deaths-cdc/ https://towardsdatascience.com/covid-19-comorbidities-are-the-elephant-in-the-room-7d185bd6cfe2","author_name":"Ejaz Haq","votes":1,"created_at":"2021-05-21T06:09:57Z"}]},{"id":151943,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:151943","question":"Hello EMD team: Congrats on a great startup. Have few questions: 1. What does \"Early Bird Terms\" mean? Did not see any place where \"terms\" were listed. Is it simply the total target funds in this round? 2. RHIhub indicates the Rural population in TX as 3 Million. Please clarify the total target number of clinics in TX 3. Data for the number of patients \u0026amp; visits, etc from the Field clinic in Houston may not apply to the Rural area clinic, especially if the clinic was promoted to patients free of charge. Numbers at test clinic may be skewed high 4. What would be your marketing strategy for the clinics in rural areas? Saw only expenses for staff, equipment leases, rents and funding fee in your analysis 5. How many specific towns in TX been identified already for clinic set up? 6. How long does it take to train a physician and the clinic staff on the EMD equipment and software? Will this training be centralized as you scale up? 7. Is this the first round of public funding? 8. How many shares does an investor get for a $1,000 investment in this round? 9. Most specialists would have a regular practice or work in hospitals during the day ...Won't the patient's visit times to the rural clinics' conflict with the Specialist's current day practice schedule? What is the plan to overcome this conflict? 10. For Yr 0, isn't the EBIDTA -0.56? The table listed a smaller number, -0.20 -- please clarify the math. 11. Assuming projections work out exactly for an exit in 2025 with a market valuation of $500M, what can an investor expect to get at exit if he invested $1,000 in this round? 12. Out of the 15 Million shares, Mr. Mohamed Haq is listed to own 4 Million. What is the ownership of the other 2,090,000 shares listed as outstanding? 12. In the Commercialization Road map, 5 clinics were to start with a funding of $1M in Q2 2021 but looks like this round of funding is limited to $322,500? Please clarify 13. Can someone outside the USA also invest in this round or does one need to reside in the USA to participate? 14. RHIHub indicates 311 Rural Health clinics and 107 Short term hospitals outside Urbanized areas in TX .... do these facilities not have Specialty doctors and how will the EMD clinics be located wrt these existing medical facilities. Thank You, Kalam A Momin","author_name":"Kalam A Momin","votes":1,"created_at":"2021-05-31T21:54:14Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/emd.health.center#question-151943","answers":[{"id":152387,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:152387","answer":"Thanks for your questions! 1. The \"Early bird Terms\" means the first $400,000 invested will get each share at price $0.91 per share. Any amount invested between $400,000 to $1,070,000 will get the share at price of $1 per share. Hence, we are offering a 10% discount as an incentive to invest early. 2. Texas has a total of 254 counties, out of which 191 are classified as Rural with ~3M rural population. We are planning for 120-150 Clinics for state of Texas. The neighboring southern states of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama combined have around 6.8 million rural population. We plan to have additional clinics in these states also after establishing in Texas. 3. The earlier clinic (Proof of Concept) in Houston mostly saw mostly uninsured patients due to competition from in-person physicians in the 2015-2016 timeframe. The data from this Clinic was used to understand the technology and is not being extrapolated for projection of patient visits. Even in the best case, for a scenario of 150 Clinics in Texas, treating 20 patients a day per Clinic, 250 days a year it will be only 750,000 patient visits per year. This is less than 10% of the visits generated from a 3 Million rural population (Number of times adults in the U.S. went to the doctor for a check-up in the past year as of 2017 was about 3 times, this translates to ~9 Million visits - See link below). https://www.statista.com/statistics/683751/frequency-of-doctors-visits-for-check-ups-by-age-us/ 4. Our marketing strategy includes regular Website, Blog, Content on Facebook, Social Networks, Local Media articles and interviews, Free care packages, patient reviews and open houses. We will start with “Bring a new friend for Dinner and Demo”. We plan to provide free Dinner (Pizza or Spaghetti and Meat Balls or Lasagna) to every person that brings a new person from the local area and provide address, email, and phone number. We plan do for few days every week for the first 2-3 months between 4-6pm. Various physicians or providers will give a 10-15 minute demo and advice during that time. If we reach one thousand people in the local community, it will give them good overview of our clinic, the providers and services offered to them. We can do this under \u0026lt;$10,000 per Clinic for the cost of Food. This will allow the local population to know the clinics, the people operating the clinic, the equipment and how the specialty physicians improve their medical care. 5. We have identified more than a dozen locations for our initial clinics. Other locations are based on analysis of data such as population, number of physicians, type of physicians, insurance by county, Medicare, age groups by county etc. 6. Clinic staff requires a couple of weeks of training to get comfortable and efficient with the medical devices, the physicians need a day or so of training to start treating the patients as they are used to viewing data on the computer screen in more or less the same format as a regular examination 7. Yes, this is the first round of funding 8. You get ~1,099 shares from a $1000 investment 9. The Physicians will be seeing both their regular patients and patients from EMD Clinics with appointments only during regular office hours. So, they will examine EMD patients from the Doctors' office instead of the local examination room. 10. The COGs has a typo it should be 0.04 instead of 0.4, others numbers remain the same. We have corrected it in the pitch deck. The zero year is prior to revenue and is ~3 months for setting up the the initial clinic. 11. Assuming projections work out exactly for an exit in 2025 with a market valuation of $500M. We have about 6.1 shares issued and 1.9 million reserved for options now. If we raise the million dollars by the end of the Wefunder campaign for the 1.1M preferred shared, we shall have a total of ~ 9.1 million shares. After another round of funding assume the valuation is between $2.50 to $3 per share and we issue another 3.5 million preferred and additional 2.4 million common share options for a total of about 15 million shares. Then the return will be ~$36,000 for a ~$1,000 investment in that scenario. 12. The rest of the shares are for other founders, physicians who worked in the pilot clinic, attorney, accountant, and for other services. 13. This round of funding is not limited to $322,500. It is the amount of fund that we expect to get the business started with 2 clinics. The plan is to raise close to $1 million in this round on Wefunder to start 5 Clinics. 14. There is no restriction, anybody can invest if they register on Wefunder. 15. The rural health clinics have some primary care doctors or nurses to provide basic services. The county hospitals are for emergency, primary care, and some in-patient surgery only not necessarily for outpatient medical specialty services. Most county hospitals are losing money and are charging a lot more for the services due to high overhead of maintaining beds and staff for emergency patients.","author_name":"Ejaz Haq","votes":0,"created_at":"2021-06-03T06:11:31Z"}]},{"id":150538,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:150538","question":"Hi team eMD, I believe in the thought behind your business model. So, my question is about the business model itself. You mentioned in the 'Details' tab that you had opened a clinic but had to close it in ~2016 due to it being non-viable financially. But then COVID happened and virtual visits became a real thing. My question is that now that things are going back to normal and things have started to open up, do you see the normalization becoming a problem for the business? If no, why? Thank you. PS: I love the ease of evisits and I know that Kaiser has been doing it since before the pandemic. I feel that infrastructure development and recruitment are your two biggest obstacles. Good luck","author_name":"Umair Jarral","votes":1,"created_at":"2021-05-24T16:46:46Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/emd.health.center#question-150538","answers":[{"id":150954,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:150954","answer":"Hello Umair, the clinic we opened in 2015-2016 was located in a Metropolitan Area (Houston). There is no telehealth originating site payment for Metro Areas as shown on page 4 of the link below. Our new clinics are in rural areas and it is multi-specialty telehealth, therefore we get $27 as telehealth originating fee per patient visit and lack of in-person specialty physician competition. Things going back to normal would not change a lot of specialists to start practicing in small towns. Only 3% specialty physicians were practicing in the vast spread of rural areas and it is unlikely to change due to the size of population required for each specialty physician to have a reasonable number of patients. This is shown in Slide 8 of the pitch deck, you need around 60,000 people on average for a pulmonologist or Rheumatologist to practice in person, which is a much higher population than what is defined as rural areas. The biggest change the Pandemic brought was the removal of distinction between in person treatment or telemedicine for malpractice insurance for physicians. During 2015-2016 we had a separate policy offered by very few underwriters costing about $4000 per physician per year just for telemedicine. This would have cost us around $200,000 per year for having 50 person specialty groups as we are planning to operate the upcoming rural clinics. (Second link below page 2 \"Your policy covers Telemedicine\") Infrastructure takes time to develop, but it is less expensive in rural Texas compared to the West coast or the East coast. Recruitment in smaller towns could be a challenge but younger tech savvy individuals can be trained to quickly handle the equipment and operate under the supervision of the physicians. https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/Downloads/TelehealthSrvcsfctsht.pdf https://www.thedoctors.com/siteassets/pdfs/the-doctors-advocate/j12371a_tda_specissue_covid-19_singlepgs_fr2-1.pdf","author_name":"Ejaz Haq","votes":1,"created_at":"2021-05-26T14:42:42Z"}]},{"id":150003,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:150003","question":"Hi Ejaz, Thank you for taking the time to give me a very detailed explanation! I am convinced and I will invest. The key was the selection of anchor towns. Again, thank you so much! I don’t need a Zoom session to go over the details. The information you provided me is already good enough. Most tele-medicine solutions only focus on either family practice or one specialty. This causes problems for patients as they have to juggle with many applications and smart devices that come with them. But eMD is an excellent solution that can potentially combine many, many specialty doctors into one solution. This is especially a good news for the rural areas that lack specialty doctors. -John Hwung","author_name":"John Hwung","votes":1,"created_at":"2021-05-21T07:19:54Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/emd.health.center#question-150003","answers":[{"id":150413,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:150413","answer":"Thank you very much.","author_name":"Ejaz Haq","votes":0,"created_at":"2021-05-23T19:28:48Z"}]},{"id":148448,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:148448","question":"Thanks so much for your response on the financials -- very helpful. Can you share the strategy around a growth trajectory that gets you to profitability in year 4? I assume it's just market penetration and growth, but be interested in hearing your take, your burn strategy and anything else you find pertinent. Also, as you rapidly scale, do you have strategies and process in place? You anticipate an exit, do you have a specific strategy (acquisition, IPO) in mind? Do you anticipate an exit at year 5 or some time later? Appreciate any insights you can share.","author_name":"Michelle Greenwood","votes":1,"created_at":"2021-05-11T21:30:32Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/emd.health.center#question-148448","answers":[{"id":148646,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:148646","answer":"Growth Strategy The growth strategy is to quickly establish the operations of the 5 clinics to have 10+ patient visits per/day/clinic. At this point we shall have experience of serving more than 10,000+ patients. We wish to leverage this experience by partnering with a strategic investor to raise additional funds to speed up the growth. We also plan to hire a team of professionals with rural background for operations/management to meet the needs of this rapid expansion. We plan to add 4 clinics a month initially, increasing the rate to 6 clinics quickly. Then follow it up with plans to open 12 to 20 clinics per month into multiple states. The expansion trajectory is based on amount of capital raised and the projected cash flows balancing the growth with the cash needed for rapid market acquisition as modeled in our spreadsheets. Market Penetration \u0026amp; Patents Our business model is based on Blue Ocean Strategy creating demand in an “uncontested” rural market and capturing this “uncontested” market that is backed up by insurance payments. As our market penetration increases, we plan to simply add one more set of medical equipment in the existing clinics to reach 12 to 15 patients a day with our existing physician base. The current team further plans to work on increasing market penetration by offering additional services and smartphones apps to help our patient base for a \"healthily life\". We plan to have a charity clinic for 4 hours twice a month on a Saturday. It will be free or a charge up to $25 based on income. These clinics are normal in urban or suburban areas, generally offered by churches or other organization but are hardly available in rural areas regularly. One of the services we are planning to offer, that can be shared publicly is adding subscription-based patient visits to two specialist and associated diagnostic tests to preferred members every year. The diagnostic test like additional blood test will continue every year and they will see a different set of specialists the following year as needed. Over a period of few years, the patients will have a good baseline profile and EMD would have collected data from thousands of these patients, which could be used to develop algorithms for early detection and mitigation before the onset of symptoms or definitive test results. This is not easily possible in the current medical practices as specialists can only get to see the patients after referral based on symptoms or test result, not years earlier. The current systems also does not easily allow for gathering data from multiple specialty areas. One of our patents applications filed 5 years ago # 14/985,193 is for such a service. We could charge a nominal amount a year for this service based on usage of other services or number of annual visits from the family to increase the stickiness with our patient base. Exit Strategy Once we reach 10 patients per/day/clinic we are operationally profitable on per clinic basis (the breakeven is 8 to 9 patients/day). Our goal is to expand as rapidly as possible as the need for the specialty care for rural patients is real and untapped, especially after the pandemic exposing the effect of comorbidities in hospitalization and deaths. The quickest way to achieve the goal of rapid expansion is acquisition or strategic investor followed by an IPO. If the pandemic or the effect of pandemic stays in the media focus, like what is happening in India and the rest of southeast Asia, then healthcare would be a priority for investments and consolidation and the exit may happen quicker.","author_name":"Ejaz Haq","votes":1,"created_at":"2021-05-13T05:47:14Z"}]},{"id":147309,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:147309","question":"if I want to send a check, who do I make it out and address to send payment","author_name":"Orazio Puglisi","votes":1,"created_at":"2021-05-05T16:13:22Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/emd.health.center#question-147309","answers":[{"id":147590,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:147590","answer":"The payment option's are determined by wefunder and shows up when you are investing. They send an email directly to the investor if the option is offered and then selected.","author_name":"Ejaz Haq","votes":0,"created_at":"2021-05-06T18:40:59Z"}]},{"id":135552,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:135552","question":"Are the remote specialists/physicians contractually obligated exclusively to Emd Health Centers? If not, are you concerned about other competitors also using these doctors, reducing the pool of available physicians?","author_name":"John Pecoraro","votes":1,"created_at":"2021-03-17T19:17:57Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/emd.health.center#question-135552","answers":[{"id":136830,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:136830","answer":"John, Thanks a lot for your questions. The competitors cannot open similar clinics due to our patents. The remote Physicians are not obligated to work exclusively for eMD Health Center. This is of less concern due to our patent rights (US Patent 8,589,177) valid until end of 2024. The present pool of physicians are aware of eMD's patent rights and it would be a willful infringement in case they work for the competion without permission. Our current arrangement with the physician pool covers terms related to financial, quality of service, and competition. Further, they will come under contract after successful completion of crowd funding campaign. Our goal is to get as many rural communities as possible the access to specialty physicians. We will consider franchising, licensing all or some of the services after gaining traction with the initial clinics.","author_name":"Ejaz Haq","votes":0,"created_at":"2021-03-22T04:40:10Z"}]},{"id":164797,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:164797","question":"Is Texas the location of the first clinic? Any update yet on when that will be open?","author_name":"Robert W Neill Jr","votes":0,"created_at":"2021-08-21T20:00:46Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/emd.health.center#question-164797","answers":[{"id":165968,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:165968","answer":"Thank you. Please see update 2 which contains relevant information about Jasper Texas and surrounding counties.","author_name":"Ejaz Haq","votes":0,"created_at":"2021-08-26T16:49:23Z"}]},{"id":160825,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:160825","question":"Is this still an active campaign?","author_name":"Robert W Neill Jr","votes":0,"created_at":"2021-08-01T04:30:21Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/emd.health.center#question-160825","answers":[{"id":160949,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:160949","answer":"Yes. We will announce the location and status of the first clinic in a week or two as soon as we get the contractor to give us the schedule for the build out of examination rooms in an existing building. It was a challenge to find contractors/labor for small jobs (two to three days of work) of interior walls and internet cabling in rural areas after the pandemic disruptions. Our plan is to have the clinic ready within a month and the campaign will improve as we can demonstrate from the actual clinic with local information. This will be followed by insurance credentialing, actual patients and early traction before we close the campaign.","author_name":"Ejaz Haq","votes":2,"created_at":"2021-08-02T02:59:50Z"}]},{"id":154760,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:154760","question":"Mr Haq ..... thank you very much for your detailed answers. Really appreciate it.","author_name":"Kalam A Momin","votes":0,"created_at":"2021-06-24T17:03:42Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/emd.health.center#question-154760","answers":[{"id":160941,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:160941","answer":"Thanks.","author_name":"Ejaz Haq","votes":0,"created_at":"2021-08-02T02:37:31Z"}]},{"id":148269,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:148269","question":"I am interested in your visionary idea and reviewing your financials -- can you share the sales line item in year 1? Is that the fees for lab work and licensing fees or something else? Also, what is the make up of your COGs vs. expenses? How does the machinery cost factor in? Is the cost of the machinery still $40K?","author_name":"Michelle Greenwood","votes":0,"created_at":"2021-05-10T22:28:48Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/emd.health.center#question-148269","answers":[{"id":148384,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:148384","answer":"Thank you Michelle for the questions. The COGs are operational cost of clinics like rent, medical equipment lease, utilities and salary of employees (2 initially one medical assistant and one front office). The expenses are salary of two employees for five clinics in a cluster for supervision and backup, marketing, IT, legal, corporate and everything else. The first line item if you asking about 0.26M is the cumulative revenue from having 3,500 to 4,500 patient visits over a 12 month period from 5 clinics based upon patient site payment, payment from physicians, payment portion from lab and imaging services. The zero year is prior to revenue from any clinic. The year is not the calendar year. The cost of Telehealth machinery including specialty medical devices like EKG, abdominal ultrasound etc. is slightly over 40K. We will lease them initially for around 1K per/month based on configuration. In summary our model of specialty telehealth, you have trained personnel to present the patient for examination with medical devices, obtaining history, vital signs and all other routine services like follow-up appointments, instructions about medications, lab or imaging appointments, insurance payments etc.","author_name":"Ejaz Haq","votes":0,"created_at":"2021-05-11T19:04:26Z"}]},{"id":147351,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:147351","question":"Hi eMD team, if a patient comes to one of your rural clinic and the specialty doctor determines that this patient has an emergency, what can/would your clinic do since your clinic is not equipped to handle emergency care.","author_name":"John Hwung","votes":0,"created_at":"2021-05-05T18:14:36Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/emd.health.center#question-147351","answers":[{"id":147578,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:147578","answer":"Thank you John. The Clinic is like a regular Doctor's Clinic for scheduled patients and not for emergencies or urgent care. However if somebody does have an emergency during his/her schedule time we will call 911 like any other doctor's office.","author_name":"Ejaz Haq","votes":1,"created_at":"2021-05-06T18:08:50Z"}]},{"id":147348,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:147348","question":"Hi eMD team, I love your idea of providing remote health care to rural population that require specialty physicians. Would it be correct to say that eMD's biggest challenges are: a) recruit of specialty physicians when you scale out to more and more clinics. b) good internet bandwidth for your rural clinics. Without good bandwidth, your business model won't work.","author_name":"John Hwung","votes":0,"created_at":"2021-05-05T18:11:45Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/emd.health.center#question-147348","answers":[{"id":147585,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:147585","answer":"Recruiting is one of the challenges. Our team of physician have access to a large network of physicians. Lot of retired or about to retire physicians have already expressed great interest in extending their involvement in Patient Care. Additionally, Female Physicians raising kids or other physician's who want to reduce their overhead are keen on joining. The rural bandwidth is not a problem in towns which have a high school. Our clinic locations are planned in such towns with population of 2-5K and having well connected high schools. The 31% of rural Texas homes not having internet connection is misunderstood as a broadband problem for telemedicine, only because that model of Telemedicine directly deals with patients from their Home.","author_name":"Ejaz Haq","votes":2,"created_at":"2021-05-06T18:27:42Z"}]}],"faq":[{"question":"Are the remote specialists/physicians contractually obligated exclusively to Emd Health Centers? If not, are you concerned about other competitors also using these doctors, reducing the pool of available physicians?","answer":"John, Thanks a lot for your questions. The competitors cannot open similar clinics due to our patents. The remote Physicians are not obligated to work exclusively for eMD Health Center. This is of less concern due to our patent rights (US Patent 8,589,177) valid until end of 2024. The present pool of physicians are aware of eMD's patent rights and it would be a willful infringement in case they work for the competion without permission. Our current arrangement with the physician pool covers t..."},{"question":"if I want to send a check, who do I make it out and address to send payment","answer":"The payment option's are determined by wefunder and shows up when you are investing. They send an email directly to the investor if the option is offered and then selected."},{"question":"Hi eMD team, I love your idea of providing remote health care to rural population that require specialty physicians. Would it be correct to say that eMD's biggest challenges are: a) recruit of specialty physicians when you scale out to more and more clinics. b) good internet b...","answer":"Recruiting is one of the challenges. Our team of physician have access to a large network of physicians. Lot of retired or about to retire physicians have already expressed great interest in extending their involvement in Patient Care. Additionally, Female Physicians raising kids or other physician's who want to reduce their overhead are keen on joining. The rural bandwidth is not a problem in towns which have a high school. Our clinic locations are planned in such towns with population of 2-..."},{"question":"Hi eMD team, if a patient comes to one of your rural clinic and the specialty doctor determines that this patient has an emergency, what can/would your clinic do since your clinic is not equipped to handle emergency care.","answer":"Thank you John. The Clinic is like a regular Doctor's Clinic for scheduled patients and not for emergencies or urgent care. However if somebody does have an emergency during his/her schedule time we will call 911 like any other doctor's office."},{"question":"I am interested in your visionary idea and reviewing your financials -- can you share the sales line item in year 1? Is that the fees for lab work and licensing fees or something else? Also, what is the make up of your COGs vs. expenses? How does the machinery cost factor in? ...","answer":"Thank you Michelle for the questions. The COGs are operational cost of clinics like rent, medical equipment lease, utilities and salary of employees (2 initially one medical assistant and one front office). The expenses are salary of two employees for five clinics in a cluster for supervision and backup, marketing, IT, legal, corporate and everything else. The first line item if you asking about 0.26M is the cumulative revenue from having 3,500 to 4,500 patient visits over a 12 month period f..."}]}}}