MobiHealth News January 15, 2021
Innovation leads from Northwell Health and Providence St. Joseph Health describe the role that familiar, scalable technologies played during their COVID-19 response.
For all of the weight healthcare disruptors throw behind the idea of innovation, there’s something to be said about moving too fast and breaking too many things. Adoption of new digital tools should never lead to an interruption in patients’ care.
COVID-19, however, wasn’t the type of disruption that health systems had on their calendars. A shift away from in-person visits and a skyrocketing demand for consultations from the sick and the “worried well” alike threw many providers’ operations into disarray, particularly during the early months of the pandemic.
For those on the front lines of this emerging...