Healthcare Digital May 2022 | Page 95

TECHNOLOGY technology to help prevent the potential to miss learning or opportunities for review .”
Supporting physicians with new technology to support patients One of the outcomes of the global pandemic has been that it has impacted every single healthcare system worldwide . The COVID-19 pandemic taught Murgatroyd that healthcare has to incorporate digital technologies at its core .
“ I think that realisation has been one of the really important things from the pandemic ; that there are profound shifts in how healthcare will and can be delivered going forward . I think many of us have been talking about it for a very long time ,” says Murgatroyd . “ We can ' t have hospitals , for example , that aren ' t connected to the cloud . We can ' t have patients that have to queue up to go and see physicians anymore . We can ' t rely on training our workforce using textbooks . We have to find different ways of delivering and connecting healthcare .”
Medtronic has found one such way - and Murgatroyd is determined to keep the focus on making things easy for patients and physicians . healthcare-digital . com 95