16 Apr COVID-19 Highlights the Need for Interoperability in Healthcare

By: Baha Zeidan
Source: www.bio-itworld.com

One of the most important and most human concepts that has come into focus in light of the pandemic is “connectedness.” And throughout this ordeal, we’ve been trying to figure out how to cope without it:

• Early on in the pandemic, global supply chains were broken and we saw shortages of all sorts of goods.
• Face-to-face interactions were interrupted and have been severely limited for months on end, spurring mental health crises.
• Schools closed and educators had to figure out what remote learning could possibly look like.
• Life celebrations that bring us together were postponed to an uncertain future date.
• Nonessential businesses of all sorts shut down and offices went dark.
• Those that were deemed essential had to figure out new methods of producing and delivering.
• People fighting COVID-19, and in far too many cases succumbing to it, had to do so without the comfort and support of family enveloping them.
• Healthcare providers and researchers have been engaged in a race against time to figure out how to keep people alive and protected.

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