Becker's Healthcare November 24, 2021
During the Stanford (Calif.) University symposium “The Pandemic Puzzle: Lessons from COVID-19,” health leaders from both hospitals and the tech sector discussed the future of digital healthcare.
“Throughout the pandemic, we’ve seen a continuous acceleration. About two years’ worth of digital transformation occurred within literally two months,” said panelist David Rhew, MD, CMO and vice president of healthcare at Microsoft.
Stanford Health Care President and CEO David Entwistle told the panel that “before the pandemic, our number of visits annually was about 2 percent for telehealth. We quickly scaled to over 70 percent of all of our visits were telehealth.”
The increase in telehealth helped allow physicians to see more patients, especially specialists who were often pressed for...
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