ZDNet January 7, 2021
One of the lasting impacts of the pandemic will be a shift to automation and telemedicine.
It would be difficult to overestimate the impact COVID-19 appears to be having on the automation sector. No where will the change be more apparent than in healthcare, where a major transition to automation has long been in the offing.
What would have been a slower easing in has, in light of overstressed capacity in some areas of healthcare (and an eerie diminishment of demand in others), as well as a complete reorientation of consumer expectations in the pandemic era, set the stage for a jarring transformation.
Add to that the massive adoption of telemedicine as an avoidance strategy to mitigate infection and the...