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Time to Care - Innovation Is Empowering Caregivers With More Time to Keep Patients Healthy and to Maintain Balance in Their own Lives
As the year draws to a close it’s a natural time to reflect. For many of us, 2021 was (another) year characterized by uncertainty. But one group in particular has dealt with unprecedented challenges: our healthcare workers. Fittingly, the World Health Organization dubbed 2020 the Year of the Nurse and 2021 the Year of Health & Care Workers in honor of these real-life heroes who walk among us.
The impact of COVID‑19 on our society has brought public health to the top of the policy agenda. It highlighted the need to consider the resilience of health systems as an equally important measure of performance alongside accessibility, equity, quality of care and efficiency. And time is the scarcest resource as health systems face exponential demand for care due to the combination of health crisis, syndemic context and changing demographics.
To address this challenge, our reflection goes to what we can uniquely do to make time grow, alleviating the pressure and liberating productivity so that there is more time to care.
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