Hidden Insights Revealed From the Pandemic: Where Do We Go From Here?
Sanaz Cordes, M.D.
Chief Healthcare Advisor at World Wide Technology; Healthtech Shield Maiden
by Sanaz Cordes, MD and co-author Matthew Stein
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The COVID-19 pandemic has taught healthcare a hard lesson: the future is here, and we must move quickly to keep up. Its arrival has fundamentally changed how we think about care delivery. Health system initiatives around telehealth, patient engagement, remote workforce, and virtual care can no longer fall into multi-year rollout plans.
On the flip side, the pandemic has demonstrated that when the health and safety of patients and staff are at risk, healthcare organizations are capable of moving infinitely more quickly than they ever thought possible.
Many of our healthcare partners are still implementing immediate response solutions. Other clients are seeing a decline in the demand for COVID-19 care and are now focusing on converting short-term solutions into sustainable and scalable long-term strategies. And other healthcare partners are optimizing long-term strategies that were already underway and have been accelerated by the crisis.
So, where do we go from here? READ MORE.