Going Remote: A Look at How the Medical Industry Is Shifting Post-COVID
The challenges of COVID caused every industry to pivot, introducing remote work and adjusting even basic operations. However, the medical sector faced unique challenges in making this shift, as treating patients, protecting health data, and performing lab-based research all present particular difficulties.
As the initial two weeks of shifting to remote work stretched into two years of a new reality, working in an office is no longer necessary. As a result, many medical IT departments expedited technological upgrades and began rolling out innovative new processes to allow employees to remain remote as the pandemic drags on.
New Opportunities for the Medical Industry to Go Remote
One of the pandemic’s surprises was how remote and hybrid working benefitted patients and cut overall co...