Making Healthcare More Accessible is a Trend Worth Keeping

How many of you reading this right now cringe at the thought of going to your general practitioner for your yearly physical, your dentist for a simple cleaning, or your optometrist for a vision screening?

If so, you’re not alone. Many individuals sit in the waiting room of whichever doctor they’re visiting at the moment, wishing this could be done in any simpler way possible. They imagine what it would be like if, just like your job, you could do this remotely: log in to a computer and meet with your doctor from afar.

Well, this fantasy has always been a reality in some ways, but as of recently, it is absolutely authentic and attainable by the masses! Telemedicine is here en masse, and has staying power in ways never before seen. Now, thanks to the emergence of COVID-19 in 2020, telemedicine is almost as common as remote work, online education, and family gatherings over Zoom.

Using my Hard Trend Methodology, where we identify future certainties that will happen and separate them from Soft Trends, or future maybes that are open to influence, I accurately predicted as far back as the early nineties that eventually, telemedicine would undoubtedly help cut healthcare costs, coining this industry as a “virtual hospital” of sorts.