Healthcare innovation: Building on gains made through the crisis
During the course of this year, the healthcare industry has produced inspiring examples of innovation in products, services, processes, and business and delivery models, often in partnership with other sectors. For example, Sheba Medical Center in Israel is working with TytoCare to keep COVID-19 patients in their homes by supplying them with special stethoscopes that both listen to their hearts and transmit images of their lungs to a care team that can intervene as appropriate.2In the United States, Zipline, which specializes in delivering medical supplies to remote areas, quickly formed a partnership with Novant Health in North Carolina to distribute supplies to hospitals via drones.3The adoption of telehealth has exploded, from 11 percent of consumers using it in 2019 to 46 percent in April 2020, and well more than half of healthcare providers polled indicate higher comfort with this care-delivery method than before.
