With Getlabs acquisition, Function makes health data more accessible, turning diagnostics into an everyday and anywhere experience.
Most people have learned to live with the inconvenience that comes with the errand of healthcare. The commute to a clinic. The waiting room. The need to carve out time just to understand what’s happening inside your own body. Membership-based health data service Function is making a statement that this model no longer makes sense.
In a move that feels both practical and symbolic, the company has acquired Getlabs, a leading mobile healthcare platform that sends licensed professionals directly to patients [1]. Instead of rearranging your day around a lab visit, the lab comes to you.
“Your zip code, your schedule and your life circumstances shouldn’t determine what health information you have access to,” said Jonathan Swerdlin, CEO and co-founder of Function. “Bringing testing directly to people isn’t just convenience – it’s access.”
Distinction is easy to overlook. Convenience is a perk; access is a prerequisite. For years, routine testing has been shaped by friction – transportation, time constraints, mobility challenges. Not dramatic barriers, but enough to delay, postpone or skip altogether. When testing is delayed, so is insight.
Function’s integration of Getlabs aims to remove that friction entirely. Members will soon be able to choose: visit one of thousands of lab locations or schedule a blood draw at home or in the office. The tests themselves don’t change. The results don’t change. The science doesn’t change. Only the experience does, and sometimes, that’s what makes all the difference.
“At Getlabs, we believe access to testing is a fundamental piece to owning your health,” said Claire Hough, CEO of Getlabs. “Together with Function, we can make testing more accessible and seamless… That mission doesn’t change. It scales.”
Scaling access to testing may sound like an operational goal. In reality, it’s reshaping where healthcare begins. Diagnostics – blood tests, scans, routine checks – has traditionally lived in the background, something you do when a doctor tells you to. Something reactive. However, that’s changing.
Across the industry, diagnostics is moving to the foreground. It’s becoming the first step, the entry point. Increasingly, that entry point is the home.
To understand why this matters, it helps to think of health data like a story. A single lab test is a snapshot, just a single page. Useful, but incomplete. What Function is building is closer to a timeline, where each test adds context, showing patterns and changes over time. The acquisition of Getlabs strengthens that vision by making it easier to collect those “pages” regularly.
Behind the scenes, technology plays a role. Getlabs uses AI-assisted routing to coordinate visits efficiently, essentially mapping out the most effective way to bring healthcare professionals to people. For users, it just feels smoother. Fewer delays, more reliable scheduling.
But zoom out, and it’s part of a bigger shift. Physical services, like blood draws, are being connected to digital systems that track, analyze and interpret health data continuously. It’s about making health data something you can actually live with and learn from.
Longevity often gets tied to breakthrough therapies, cutting-edge science and the promise of living to 100, but here, the foundation is consistency. You can’t act on what you don’t measure, and you won’t measure consistently if the process is inconvenient. By bringing testing into the home, Function is lowering the threshold for participation. It turns health monitoring into something closer to a habit than a task. That shift, from effort to ease, may be one of the most underrated drivers of long-term health.
Function’s broader mission is to help people live 100 healthy years. That goal depends on sustained awareness, knowing what’s changing in your body and when. Access to testing is where that awareness begins.
The acquisition also raises a bigger question: if healthcare can come to you, what else follows? We’re already seeing the edges of that future, where diagnostics moves out of centralized facilities and into everyday environments. Where health isn’t something you “go to,” but something that integrates into your routine. In that sense, Function’s move isn’t just about expanding services, but also about redefining expectations.
The clinic is no longer the default. The home is becoming the new front door. As diagnostics continues to move closer – more frequent, more accessible, more visible – it starts to reshape the entire system around it. Healthcare becomes more continuous and more personal. Now, it is more aligned with how people actually live.
