Strengthening health systems with digital strategies
Healthcare has faced unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, governments, clinics, hospitals, and frontline workers were confronted with additional pressures of tracing and tracking new infections, treating COVID-19 patients while managing their usual duties, respecting social distance rules, and maintaining the flow of medical supplies. This increased the strain on an already under-resourced system.
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Following the pandemic, observers from various industries have remarked that a decade’s worth of innovation occurred in just ten months. PwC Singapore’s Health Industries Leader has also said that the pandemic expedited the emergence of what he terms the…