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More specifically, the doctors can advise Lumeca IN THE BEGINNING
Health users on everything from acne and allergies
to bites and stings, to urinary tract infections and Hazen founded Lumeca Health in 2016.
yeast infections. The doctors are licensed to practise
family and emergency medicine, and they either “Lumeca was actually born inside another company
work in a practice or own their practice and work in I founded when I was 22,” Hazen explains. “It’s
a hospital, as well. an industrial and occupational health and safety
company that operates across Canada that provides
The doctors are paid for their services by Lumeca on-site nurses and paramedics to remote access
via the Medical Services Branch, similar to how most work sites in the mining, industrial and oil industry.
medical clinics operate in Saskatchewan. We struggled in that industry, just like the public do
to have good access to healthcare. A lot of times at
The Lumeca Health app can only be used in the work sites that we worked on that had 3,000
Canada, and the company adheres to its laws, people working out there, we very much became
such as the Health Information Act, Freedom of their occupational and non-occupational health-care
Information Act, and Protection of Privacy Act, to arm. People need doctors.”
protect patient information.
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