COVID-19 Sped Up the Transition to Digital Medicine. The Health Industry Says There's No Turning Back
The COVID-19 era has supercharged what had been, for many providers, a sluggish shift toward digital health — and health care leaders say that even with a pandemic off-ramp in sight, the virtual overhaul of the country’s health care system will continue in 2021 and beyond as many consumers embrace the new services. With non-urgent care grinding to a halt this spring and a main source of hospital revenue vanishing almost overnight, federal regulators gave their blessing for health systems to get creative to ensure patients could see their doctors. Overwhelmingly, that meant health care ...