Taiwan’s digital health infrastructure and central EHR system has played a big part in the country’s successful COVID-19 response, serving as a model for the U.S. to potentially replicate in the future, according to a June 30 STAT op-ed.

On a per capita basis, the U.S. has 1,200 times as many COVID-19 deaths as Taiwan and a 12 percent higher unemployment rate projected for the end of the year. To get the U.S. economy moving again, the country’s healthcare system much be functioning properly, op-ed authors Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, Cathy Zhang, and Aaron Glickman wrote.

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