Healthcare IT Today July 10, 2020
Understatement of the Day: COVID-19 has overwhelmed healthcare.
Turns out that this is a reality regardless of whether your healthcare organization has been hit by an influx of COVID-19 patients or not. The overwhelming feeling applies regardless of where you work in healthcare as well. I don’t know of any healthcare department that hasn’t had everything turned upside down due to COVID-19. Not to mention the wear and tear we’ve all felt in all personal lives.
In most cases, it’s amazing what healthcare organizations have done to deal with the pandemic. Temporary hospitals literally thrown up over night. The shift to remote work wherever possible over night. New protocols created, revised, and then created again. Bureaucracies that disappeared over night...