5 Healthcare Digital Innovation Trends for 2021

At the start of the pandemic, expanding access to virtual care services was an urgent necessity, and there was little time for comprehensive strategic planning. Telehealth solutions deployed were largely use-case specific—reflecting not only the need to ramp up access quickly, but also the marketplace.

Given that telehealth adoption is here to stay, healthcare systems will be looking to take a more long-term and holistic approach. This will require moving away from use-case solutions to building a platform-type solution for general virtual care services.

For providers, having tools like a digital patient registration system yields numerous benefits. It not only eliminates the need to manually transfer patient data from clipboards into their EHR, but can reduce mistakes, save time, reduce phone calls, and help reduce no-shows through automatic appointment reminders.