A $499 checkup gave me a peek at the future of AI-powered health care

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Earlier this week, I got an AI-powered physical exam that frankly wowed me, from a scan that mapped my skin and body composition to heart, blood, and metabolic health tests.

A physician walked me through the results a few minutes later while standing in front of my 3D image in a room more reminiscent of “2001: A Space Odyssey” than my doctor’s office.

Neko Health , a Swedish health care and technology company founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek and CEO Hjalmar Nilsonne, opened its first U.S. clinic in Manhattan yesterday, offering this package for $499.

It was the kind of health care experience I’ve always wanted and rarely received: fast, simple, and proactive.

“We want to create this almost magical consumer experience around health care,” Nilsonne told me.

“We want to democratize high-quality preventive health care and make it available to millions or hundreds of millions of people.” There’s a lot of discussion about health right now: the health of the planet, the health of our economies, and, of course, the health of our own bodies.

We are living longer at a time when health care is getting more expensive, jobs are becoming less secure and much of the developed world is bracing for a ‘silver tsunami’ as aging populations impact everything from tax revenue to consumer behavior.

The Trump administration announced plans this week to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public health care exchanges as part of a crackdown on fraud .

The problems are profound, but I’m also struck by the promise of what’s happening right now, via AI and beyond: The desire to disrupt.

There are now thousands of AI-powered health care startups and plenty of disruption within the system, too.

AI is saving at least 132 hours annually for half of the health care professionals surveyed in the 2026 Philips Future Health Index.