HealthTech February 8, 2021
Doug Bonderud

As the need for on-demand diagnoses and personalized treatment evolves, augmented reality devices will join the clinician’s toolkit.

Long before the pandemic, healthcare was on the road to becoming ever more digital. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 mandated meaningful conversion of physical documents to electronic medical records (EMRs). By 2018, individual patients were generating more than 80 megabytes of EMR and imaging data each year, which is manageable in isolation but incredibly challenging at scale.

COVID-19 supercharged this shift with a sudden pivot to telemedicine and at-a-distance diagnoses. According to PWC, virtual health delivery now tops the list of 2021...

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