How the Pandemic Transformed the Future of Healthcare Tech with Evan Kirstel, Chief Data Evangelist and Cofounder of eViRa Health

This episode features an interview with Evan Kirstel, a B2B thought leader, top technology influencer, and enterprise industry insider. Evan’s business, eViRa Health, acts as a social media partner to clients in the healthcare industry to grow massive global audiences and deepen user engagement. We talk with Evan about how he paired his expertise in social media with the healthcare industry, and helped revolutionize the future of healthcare tech.

3 Takeaways:

• The pandemic has created a great shift in the healthcare industry towards the adoption of new technologies, including virtual care.
• People are already gathering their own health data through wearables, which could be helpful to doctors.
• Incorporating tech into the patient experience empowers patients  to manage their conditions.

Key Quotes:

• “We need to make patients the center of care, strengthen the doctor-patient or nurse-patient relationships, and empower patients with data, insights, advice, guidance and education.”
• “We’re generating all of this data around ourselves from wearables to virtual care to remote patient monitoring. And getting all that data into systems in a clean way that doctors and researchers can use to gather insights is so important.”
• “Over the pandemic, we’ve seen virtual care and telehealth go from like 1% utilization to like 35, 40%.  So if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, maybe it’s been some of the adoption of these new technologies.”

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