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 major changes after demonstrating the lack of investment in digitization and how 65% of medical care can be resolved without the physical presence of the patient, thus also forcing medical staff to have new challenges and opportunities.
During the quarantine new forms of approach with the population for consultations or examinations looked for; telemedicine stood out as the best method, but not for all practices.
There was also a need for more efficient and reliable methods of sending real-time data to hospitals and governments concerned about hospital employment that was increasing with the advancement of the pandemic.
On the subject of a new design for hospitals, the Royal College of Physicians in England, embracing new technologies, were the “wallless hospitals”, this idea seeks to leave behind hospitals as unique spaces of health and bring expert health personnel to communities, with the benefit of a strong digital ecosystem.
In all of the above there is an urgency for healthcare professionals to digitize patient procedures and information, able to bring a complete medical history even connected to wearables (body technology) for better follow-up.
However it is a reality that the pandemic brought significant economic losses, in addition the health sector gave priority to the Covid-19, leaving aside patients of chronic diseases, mental health therapies, general medicine consultations, among others , which needs to be corrected.
The Covid-19 showed a new path towards where efforts and technological innovation in health should be directed.