By Dr. Michael Twomey

THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC is putting vast pressure on the worldwide health care sector’s labour force, infrastructure, and supply chain, and revealing social inequities in health and care. Moreover, COVID-19 is hastening transformation throughout the ecosystem, requiring public and private health systems to acclimatise and innovate swiftly.

A number of key changes are appearing from and being worsened by COVID-19’s expanse. For instance, consumers’ growing participation in healthcare decision-making; the swift embracing of virtual health and other digital advances; the drive for interoperable data and data analytics usage; and unparalleled public-private partnerships in vaccine and therapeutics development.

Amongst these dynamic forces, governments, payers, health care providers, and others all over the world are being faced with challenges that require them to react quickly, be resilient, and innovate. Indeed, business leaders are required to take advantage of the impetus kindled by organisational and ecosystem reactions to COVID-19 to deal with six urgent issues in 2021.

How healthcare participants examine, comprehend, and react to these matters will influence their ability to plot a course from recovering to flourishing in the “new normal” after the pandemic. Facilitating progression in their passage along the path to the Future of Health

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