The COVID-19 pandemic has been called the world’s largest forced proof of concept for collaboration technologies. Last spring, organizations across industries scrambled to deploy collaboration suites and get workers up and running from their homes. Already, these technologies are beginning to transform company cultures and workflows.

Many frontline healthcare workers, of course, have bravely donned their personal protective equipment and stayed in the field to deliver care. But collaboration technologies have revolutionized the work of a large number of clinicians and other healthcare workers, and we expect these solutions to have a lasting impact.

Here are five predictions we feel confident making about the future of collaboration in healthcare:

Telemedicine has been on the scene since the early days of the internet when the federal government looked to provide rural patients with access to the same kind of healthcare expertise that was available in large urban centers. While telemedicine has been available since at least the 1990s, results from CDW’s 2017 Patient Engagement Perspectives Study…

Collaboration offers tremendous benefits to healthcare. Healthcare is, after all, inherently collaborative. Doctors, nurses and other clinical staff all constantly collaborate to ensure that patients receive proper care. When this goes well, patients get quality care at a lower cost. When it doesn’t, care suffers and costs go up..