2020 was the year that "Zoom" entered our vocabulary as a verb meaning "to video chat". For Zoom it was a year that their customer base exploded, including in the healthcare space. It was a year of validation for the then nine-year-old tech company, but also a year of the sorts of challenges that come from rapid, unexpected scaling.

On today's HIMSSCast, Zoom Head of Healthcare joins guest host Kat Jercich to look back at  a tumultuous time, and look ahead to the future.

This episode is brought to you by Zoom.

Talking points:

• Zoom’s pre-pandemic healthcare business and how it changed
• Factors that helped Zoom in healthcare thrive during the pandemic
• Dealing with a huge uptake in customer and end user volume
• Patient engagement with telehealth, a pleasant surprise
• Focusing on convenience and flexibility, with or without reimbursement
• Accommodating people with disabilities and different needs
• Zoom’s journey to ubiquity
• Dealing with Zoom bombing and other security and privacy challenges
• Zoom’s mission to “deliver happiness”
• Looking ahead to the future at Zoom

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