HP Innovation Journal Issue 15: Summer 2020 | Page 26

Acceleration of
Healthcare
TELEMEDICINE WON’T REPLACE THE
NEED FOR IN-PERSON VISITS, BUT IT WILL
INCREASINGLY HELP DOCTORS DELIVER
A RANGE OF CARE, FROM VIRTUAL TRIAGE
TO DISEASE MANAGEMENT.
Manufacturing
3D PRINTING PROVIDED CRITICAL LOCAL
SUPPORT TO BROKEN GLOBAL SUPPLY
CHAINS BY BRINGING FAST, SUSTAINABLE
MANUFACTURING OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES
CLOSER TO WHERE IT WAS NEEDED.
The consequences of COVID-19 and the global pandemic
have overturned almost all aspects of our lives, and
the ripple effects have gone across nearly every industry.
Daily life was upended, workers uprooted, and the
economy unsettled. What no one could have foreseen is
how the crisis put technology and its role across many
sectors of society on fast-forward, forcing a decade
of change into mere weeks and months. In this issue
of Innovation, we look at four industries where HP
plays an integral role and how they are responding and
adapting to this rapid transformation. Healthcare,
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