How IT can help healthcare workers post-pandemic

Throughout the pandemic, we've seen many efforts to express
gratitude for healthcare workers. And they deserve it. Treating
patients with COVID-19 means that healthcare workers are risking
their lives every day, just by going to work. A study that came
out in The Lancet in November demonstrated that healthcare
workers, and especially nurses, have a higher rate of infection
for coronavirus than non-healthcare workers. Not only are they
taking that risk, but they are burned out. Overloaded intensive
care units has stretched hospital staff to their limits. And now
we're asking that same group of people to help us roll out the
vaccines as fast as possible. 


It wouldn't be fair to healthcare workers if we didn't learn some
lessons from this pandemic. From an IT perspective, there is an
opportunity here to help reduce the risks faced by healthcare
workers, and help reduce their workloads overall. Virtual
healthcare is one promising area to explore here. Addressing the
failures of the long term care home model is another. We have
Jennifer Jones, Info-Tech's industry analyst for healthcare. And
we're also joined by a special guest today. We have Shash Anand,
the vice-president of product strategy at SOTI, an enterprise
software vendor.