COVID-19 has served as a forcing mechanism for change in an industry that has been generally slow to adapt. In a matter of weeks, there was a paradigm shift in care delivery, moving the role and value of digital health from the “sidelines to main street.”
Suddenly, the urgent need to support vulnerable populations forced swift action to facilitate broader access to care – care delivered virtually and via telehealth and remote patient monitoring devices. The headlines brought increased attention to the advantages of digital health platforms, but the solutions had already been steadily rising for some time. The question is: where do we go from here?
