Patient no-shows result in hundreds of billions of dollars losses to the healthcare system every year and millions of dollars to separate clinics. According to NHS Digital data, in the course of only 6 months 2020 there were registered 7.8 million patients no-shows in England, it, on average, constitutes 42 822 no-shows a day.
The year 2020 was full of challenges and the greatest of them were in the sphere of healthcare. COVID-19 revealed the major pain points of the system. Even before the pandemic, there was a challenge of the population growing older. In our everyday life the independence of elderly people already comes with high risks, however, this particular category fell under special risk in 2020.
The advent of mobile and internet technology improvements has resulted in telemedicine breakthrough at the beginning of the 21st century. Tele-consulting services made up above 40% of the market share, and the overall size of the Telemedicine Market exceeded 45 billion USD in 2019.
Consumers’ attitudes and behavior shifted in recent years. With the advance of technology, people can shop and order services online and mostly want to be satisfied instantaneously. That’s why on-demand startups are so popular nowadays, and a successful on-demand mobile app development might become your jackpot ticket.
«When markets are disrupted, the winners are usually those who can continue to create value. So organizations with scale will remain ahead of the game and so will sharp, agile, tech-oriented newbies. Those in the middle of the pack will likely have a harder time facing this changing landscape.»
Atlee Valentine Pope, CEO of consulting firm Blue Canyon Partners
The modern world faces complete overturn and so does every industry. It’s not a surprise that transportation and logistics are going to invest over 40 billion USD in software services, platforms, and systems development to stay in-step with the times in 2020.
The growing population of the Earth makes innovations in the agricultural sphere more important than ever before and going digital is a means of meeting the challenges arising in the sphere. They are variable and the growing costs of supplies, labor shortage, and consumer preferences changes and requirements for sustainability and transparency are just a few to mention.
Generation Z seems to have already revolutionized much in the modern flow of life and the digital world in particular. Almost half of the active consumers belong to this age group nowadays and they are characterized as «view now, buy now customers».
Mobility as a service is a new ground-breaking concept being shaped by the 3 main factors: alternative power transport, electric vehicles, and on-demand services. This social, techno and economic shift has put mobility at our fingertips disrupting new sectors and spheres.
The era of social media networks seemed to set in about 15 years ago and by now the leaders have already been defined. Many of the developers consider the idea to launch an app which is able to gain popularity in just several months forlorn. However, it is not so, proven by TikTok. Once it hit mainstream it knew no restraint. Wonderstruck with the app’s success we’d like to look a bit closer at the secret of its popularity and figure out how a similar application can be crafted.
The event industry sphere is rapidly reshaping that’s why being a part of the events industry nowadays, you should be flexible, dynamic and ready to meet the attendees’ needs and requirements. We have already written why you need a CRM for your event, but today we’ll look at the event organization from another angle.