To close the gaps, many industry stakeholders are adding external healthcare data sets into their strategic planning and forecasting process.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a perfect storm in healthcare. Mass job losses, closure of healthcare facilities, and patients' fears about visiting their doctor, scheduling procedures, or even picking-up their prescriptions has all led to physicians and payers no longer being able to rely on traditional data to predict future trends.
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