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Before the COVID-19 crisis began to hit North American hospitals, Think Research chief executive Sachin Aggarwal said his health-tech company would typically push out its updated clinical protocols to clients once a month. Now those updates may come in just a matter or hours.

“In a place like Canada, every single hospital is getting ready,” Aggarwal told the Financial Post in an interview. “Whether you’re remote or small, or you’re a mid-sized community hospital, you’re getting ready.”

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As thousands of companies have been forced to close operations due to social distancing requirements, Think Research is part of a small subset in the health innovation space that have seen business surge as a result of the pandemic, bringing new technologies to the fore in an upheaval that could outlast the crisis itself.

Tools like virtual care are from zero to 60 in seven days, and that’s never happened in health care Think Research chief executive Sachin Aggarwal

Aggarwal said Think, which ensures front-line health-care workers have up-to-date information on procedures and best practices at their fingertips, was more or less designed with a crisis like COVID-19 in mind: a fast-moving public heath emergency in which doctors and nurses need the latest research quickly.