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https://www.webmdhealthservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/healthcare-covid-blog-scaled.jpg11When the country shut down in mid-March, non-coronavirus-related healthcare suddenly stopped, too. Elective surgeries, preventive care, and routine checkups were all put on hold. Now that most doctors’ offices and hospitals have reopened, what kind of changes will we see post-quarantine? Which aspects of healthcare delivery may have been permanently altered? What types of healthcare benefits will consumers now demand? In this blog, we explore those timely topics. Telehealth finally broke through. Telehealth has been around for well over a decade, yet was not widely adopted. But, when the coronavirus pandemic hit, every type of practitioner—from primary care doctors to...