In healthcare, long-term solutions to address hospital capacity strain have been a key component of the organization’s strategic objectives. They involve reducing demand for hospital care by improving preventative medicine, primary care and home care, and increasing capacity in hospitals as well as long-term care facilities.
In industrial settings, parallel solutions to improve capacity are taking place to address the critical demand for medical-related supplies, medical equipment, key food production, and other deemed critical products.
These solutions will likely take months and years to implement and are crucial to long-term sustainability of the health system and manufacturing industries – but they do little to address a potential surge of hospital patients in the coming weeks as well as the immediate needs for these critical products.