How COVID-19 will remake healthcare in the Western world (ZS)
Locked in our homes and nervously refreshing the Johns Hopkins website to see the latest numbers on the global pandemic, we are living in truly historic times. Some of us are worried about ourselves and our loved ones. Others are worried about employment, or their freedom, choices and the vibrant economy they forgot to enjoy. As we stay inside, now our houses are too small and our spouses too close, and our bored children are slowly atrophying from the lack of sun, friends and stimulation. Only the dogs are happy with this situation.
But around us the world of healthcare is being transformed. Digital health technology is having its best moment. Diagnostics are providing the insights that allow us to parse the “good” pandemic days from the bad. As health systems creak under the tremendous pressure being put on them, they are remodeling as we speak.
How should we function in this environment? We look at the certainties and avoid talk of doomsday. We look to the future, identify our “no regret” moves and plot a course to move forward in order to emerge from this in a better state.
No matter where we play in medtech, all of ...
