Telemedicine and a new configuration of hospitals stand out among the most radical and necessary changes in global medicine after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Medical experts and scientists predict important changes after demonstrating the lack of investment in digitization and how 65% of healthcare can be solved without the physical presence of the patient, forcing medical staff to face new challenges and opportunities.
During quarantine, new ways of approaching the population for consultations or examinations were sought; telemedicine has been noted as the best method, but not for all practices.
There was also a need for more efficient and reliable real-time data transmission methods for hospitals and governments concerned with hospital occupancy, which grew as the pandemic progressed.
The subject of a new design for hospitals, the Royal College of Physicians of England, which embraces new technologies, were “hospitals without walls”, this idea aims to leave behind as unique health spaces and bring specialized medical staff to communities, with the advantage of a digital ecosystem strong.
For all of the above, it is urgent that healthcare professionals digitize patient procedures and information, able to keep a complete medical history, even connected to portable devices (body technology) for better monitoring.
However, it is a reality that the pandemic has brought significant economic losses, in addition, the health sector has given priority to Covid-19, leaving aside patients with chronic diseases, mental health therapies, general medicine consultations, among others, which must be correct.
Covid-19 has shown a new path towards health efforts and technological innovation.