Patients can go on the website and find out if their symptoms are suggestive of allergies. They can order the testing and go in person to get the blood drawn. And then they have a visit with a PlushCare physician who is trained to interpret the results and help the patient understand what the results mean and how to best treat their symptoms, whether they’re allergic symptoms or nonallergic symptoms.
PlushCare, a direct-to-consumer telemedicine service that originally focused on acute and urgent care, has partnered with Thermo Fisher Scientific to add allergy testing to its offerings. PlushCare users will have access to Thermo Fisher's ImmunoCAP Specific IgE blood test, which can detect a number of allergies without needing to subject a patient to the traditional skin prick test.