MedCity News September 6, 2021
As the popularity of digital healthcare only continues to grow, the innovative entrepreneurs who balance all factors of the ‘consumer’ patient experience will find the highest adoption.
The healthcare industry has historically been laggard, relying heavily on in-person experiences and a paper-based infrastructure that is difficult to maneuver and modernize. However, social distancing requirements brought on by the pandemic caused the demand for virtual and digital healthcare options to skyrocket. As a prime example, stakeholders throughout the healthcare system were forced to quickly move to telemedicine, previously underutilized as a channel of care.
Since healthcare’s digital adoption was catalyzed by Covid-19, it could be considered a small silver lining that the necessity helped drive technological innovation to meet new demands...