Beyond Telehealth: The Innovation Path to Complete Virtualization for Patients
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English - August 27, 2020 21:24 - 15 minutes - 20.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTech News News Health & Fitness Medicine artificialintelligence chatbots conversationalai conversationalbots healthcareit hospitaltechnology mhealth mobilehealth patientengagement patientexperience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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While healthcare has been on a virtualization march for decades, the COVID-19 pandemic has rushed forward significant changes in the way healthcare gets delivered. Front and center has been the emergence of telehealth services, where in-person appointments have given way to video calls. By some estimates, telehealth is up 83x over pre-pandemic levels.
In the episode, Greg Kefer and Justin Mardjuki discuss the telehealth phenomenon and how it fits into the broader virtualization push that’s transforming healthcare. There are countless patient touchpoints surrounding the actual physician interactions that are ripe for virtualization.