Physicians Practice May 11, 2021
Technical advances born from a year in lockdown have made the tools more widely available than ever before.
A challenging year dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic brought about dramatic changes to the healthcare industry and the way physicians operate their practices. It was a year of deferred treatments, increased mental health cases, and substance abuse, coupled with the adoption of telehealth services, contactless waiting rooms, and new payment systems.
For many facilities, the pandemic exposed shortcomings in the patient/physician experience and served as a catalyst to speed-up many necessary changes to the industry that were destined to come eventually anyway. Forced to pivot, just as many industries did, the medical community now faces a post-pandemic normal in which many...