ResMed Ready To Supply Digital Answers To Health Care’s Demand Challenges
BY ASHLEY YEO Executive Summary ResMed’s respiratory device portfolio has put it front and center of the global medtech industry’s efforts to bring COVID-19 under control. UK and Ireland country manager Antoine Valterio tells In Vivo how the company rose to the challenge, and how providers are now seeing digital technologies in a new light.
22 / September 2020
Now that peak COVID-19 infection rates have been reached and passed in many countries, governments and health care systems are turning their attention towards managing a sustainable recovery. Returning secondary care to its pre-crisis activity levels and broad mix of services has become a new priority. But among the lessons for providers learned during the pandemic, a major one is that digital health care must be central in future challenges of these proportions – and increasingly in routine health care too. Bricks-and-mortar health care and its scarce resources are insufficiently equipped to meet COVID-19-type demand peaks, nor fast-rising “peace-time” health care needs. Digital technologies have come into their own in recent months, as the experiences of ResMed Inc., a digital health care company active in sleep and respiratory care devices, show. The company’s respiratory
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