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Covid-19 and Digital Health: How a Health Crisis leads to Innovation

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In her first piece for the ERC, Jacque Mallender has co-authored this blog with health economists Trishal Boodhna and Calum Jones, consulting at McCann Health. It discusses how crises throughout history can offer governments, and other actors, the impetus for innovation and the adoption of new healthcare technologies with pace.