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Does This Change Everything?

Digital health care and coronavirus

Season 1, Ep. 11

Our lives have changed with the coronavirus crisis. But have they changed forever? In Does This Change Everything? European Investment Bank experts examine the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for sectors from education and digitalisation to urban mobility and medicine—and for your everyday life.


To find out what coronavirus means for the public sector, we spoke to Marcin Golec, a medical doctor and health care economist with the European Investment Bank’s life sciences division. Golec talks about how digitalisation could help health care services evaluate the effectiveness of treatments faster, for the current pandemic and for non-communicable diseases like diabetes and cancer.


How will coronavirus impact digitalisation of health care? Will digitalisation change health services in the future? Find out from our health care expert.

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