Prognosis
Germany’s Long Road to Online Medical Care Gets Coronavirus Jolt
- Pandemic shows Germany it is lagging in digital health care
- CompuGroup seeks higher sales, margin as digitalization gains
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Two weeks before the World Health Organization classified Covid-19 as a global pandemic in March, CompuGroup Medical decided to make its video-conferencing software available to physicians for free.
The timing proved prescient. Within about eight weeks, license registrations rose from a few hundred to more than 80,000, allowing more patients to engage in online consultations with their doctors from the safety of their homes.