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Adapting to the “new normal” is rapidly shifting expectations for online service delivery. For example, companies which enable digitization and remote potential – like cloud connectivity, digital marketing, online distribution, and health care – have more than doubled during the economic shutdown. It is this last industry, health care, which experts believe could now permanently expand to include virtual care options and, as a result, achieve better outcomes.

Virtual health visits shot up 50% in March and are on track to hit 1 billion by the end of 2020. This coincides with legacy health systems ramping up the use of out-patient care and online scheduling platforms like Zocdoc and Pager expanding their telehealth offerings.

Mat Rezaei, the CEO and Founder of UPGUYS, compared the sudden shift to telehealth like five years of progress happening overnight.

Speaking on the podcast Brains Byte Back, the founder of the Canadian digital health service

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