Translating Physician Care To The Digital Screen: What It Takes

It is a case of survival: Healthcare systems are in trouble. As PwC notes, digitizing healthcare is essential to re-establishing sound economic footing for healthcare providers. “Research shows we’re in the middle of a five-year, $1 trillion revenue shift away from traditional healthcare payers and providers. By 2030, we expect the sector to move into a new health ecosystem. We believe the greatest potential lies in embracing new roles as orchestrators, integrators and platform and solutions players in the health ecosystem,” PwC says. Telemedicine, which enables access to care through a digital screen presence and supports EMR integration, is a potent force in driving digital transformation across the healthcare sector. The goal must remain that the clinician leads and technology enables. To have the greatest success in telemedicine, a number of factors must be accounted for, ranging from technical details to the more subjective, emotional dynamics that occur between a patient and physician as the care happens.