Inside Tucson Business September 10, 2021
Jeff Gardner

Aside from the obvious threats of COVID, the world faced several side effects from sheltering at home and social distancing, such as the loneliness from isolation. However, technology provided several work-arounds to the isolation, and has resulted in a permanent shift in the healthcare industry that will endure even after the pandemic subsides for good.

Telehealth or telemedicine, when a patient speaks to a healthcare professional via technology, is nothing new. But the demand and necessity of social distancing has resulted in the remodeling of entire hospital networks. Across the world, hospitals now have entire staffs dedicated to telehealth, and some patients even prefer it to their standard doctor’s visits.

Prior to COVID, MHC Healthcare in Marana had...

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