DIGITAL HEALTH & CARE


Upping the pace to fight the pandemic


12 | FUTURESCOT | SPRING 2020


Scotland prepares to fast-track digital health platform to help tackle coronavirus BY NEIL EVANS


Even before the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, it was already clear this was no longer a virus “happening somewhere else”. Te conversations quickly


turned from ‘self-isolation’ for some and the importance of washing your hands, to the more extreme – cancelling mass events, school closures and the prospect of a total lockdown. Stockpiling of non-perishable items was evi- dence people were preparing for “when, not if” things got worse. From a healthcare perspective,


not only does the pandemic put enormous additional pressure on


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