The COVID pandemic is pushing for transformative change

Now that hospitals are able to breathe again, Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips said in a live HIMSS webinar that it is important to that hospitals start thinking about the challenges for the future ofcare now that we’re finding a cadence in fighting the pandemic.

“Act I was all about what do we do in a crisis,” Compton-Phillips said. “Act II is 'How do we live with COVID?' It’s the new abnormal. It’s not done yet, it’s just that most of us are over the peak of wave one. And now we have to figure out how we care for people in need while we live with COVID in the background. Act III will be what happens next – what’s after the waves finish and we actually have a way to prevent COVID and not just treat it?”

Read more on what Dr. Compton-Phillips has to say about moving forward.