HealthTech Magazines October 21, 2021

By Dave Smith, Associate VP of Virtual Medicine, UMass Memorial Health

Few, if any, of our cohorts in healthcare IT could have foreseen the unveiling of a global outbreak in the early days of 2020. And while my health system had dabbled in telemedicine for well over a decade, we were woefully unprepared, as were many, when the first wave slapped our doors shut. By the second month into the public health emergency, our volume had increased by 2000% over pre-COVID days. We had moved the needle by years in a matter of months, even weeks.

Telehealth proved its value during the pandemic out of necessity. And now, we must not let it lose its luster.

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Topics: Digital Health, Health IT, Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Technology, Telehealth
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