Preparing to Reopen Healthcare Services

This Week in Health Tech

English - April 28, 2020 06:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MB
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Finally, there is a glimmer of hope, and lots of states and provinces in North America are starting to prepare to reopen more healthcare services.
Vik and Jimmy comment on how health systems are planning and preparing to reopen more services like diagnostic services, radiology, non-urgent and elective procedures, and also ambulatory-clinic visits.
They talk about examples outside of healthcare like procedures that were used at the Lenovo factory in China. Vik mentions the anxiety around reopening healthcare services in other countries like for example in Modena Italy. They had to plan to accommodate other healthcare services however stay ready for COVID-19 patients.
Hospitals will have to innovate and use tools at their disposal to reopen healthcare services and at the same time be prepared for COVID-19 patients.

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