HealthIT Answers April 13, 2021
By Vasilios Nassiopoulos, Vice President of Platform Strategy and Innovation, Hayes Management
It has been more than a year since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. While it will be years before we truly know the effect it will have on our overall health, economy and society, there are a lot of things we do know about the impact on health systems.
Healthcare systems stepped up in a heroic way. They managed to test, treat and cure millions of patients. We went from having no standard test for COVID-19 to being able to test more than 2 million people in a single day. (Data from the Covid Tracking Project).
But that is not all we saw. Telehealth usage skyrocketed. Elective procedures...