A few taps on a smartphone is all it takes to get life-saving advice in the new normal. This is particularly true for MediCard Philippines Inc.’s Telemedicine. In a matter of seconds and from the convenience of your own home, you can connect to a health professional. This drastically lowers your risk of transmitting the…
As devastating as the COVID-19 pandemic has been, it also proved once again that in crisis there is opportunity. Key players in the health and wellness field said during a recent Inquirer Project Rebound webinar that Covid-19 hastened the adoption of new health and medical technologies and underscored the fact that health was more than…
When – not if – a perilous sickness strikes, the high costs can stun the unprepared. That is a lesson COVID-19 teaches. New to humankind, no one is naturally immune to it. It easily spreads worldwide, hospitalizing and killing millions. A bout with the disease has cost millions in bills. Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and…
The Ayala Group was just going back to its roots when it reentered the Philippines’ healthcare sector with the acquisition of the Generika drugstores and establishment of AC Health in 2015, 180 years since the group started out with Botica Zobel. That was a big leap forward for the group that has long been committed…