The scanner has already saved lives

The company Intuens ultrasound has operated magnetic dormitors in Iceland since 2023. Since then, a large number of people have sought the company and received a so -called health inspection.

Guðbjartur Ólafsson, GP, works for the company and he says that the company’s analysis has been crucial to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases that would otherwise not have been discovered until much later.

Numerous examples of serious diagnosis

« There are numerous examples where we have diagnosed serious diseases. We have found, for example, tumors in organs such as brain that has needed the necessary intervention or malignant tumors in other organ systems, » says Guðbjartur.

That people have not been aware of?

Yes, which are then asymptomatic. It may be considered this way with cancer, so we take colon cancer as an example. If a person is diagnosed with colon cancer when it is just localized in the colon, nothing comes out of the colon, then the life expectancy is about 95% after 5 years. But if you take someone who got colon cancer and it is diagnosed with metastas in two organ systems outside the colon, the life expectancy is somewhat around 5-10% after 5 years that are alive, ”says Guðbjartur.

In a battle with the system

He is a guest of questions, along with Steinunni Erla Thorlacius, CEO of the company.

There, among other things, they review how the Icelandic Health Insurance and the Surgeon have tried to put a stone in the street of the company and simply tried to crush the company.

Thus, the company has been unable to participate in health insurance auctions for imaging services, where the Treasury participates in costs and on the basis of requests from doctors.

However, the company has had enough to turn in the whole views where people buy a full -fledged overall analysis of their body on the basis of what the ultrasound can detect. This treatment costs 300,000 kr.

The interview with them can be seen in full here: