ABSTRACT
The currently ongoing introduction of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and big data into our contemporary society is causing an unprecedented market transformation during a time of the greatest pandemic in centuries. This chapter addresses leadership and change implied by AI, robotics, and big data derived inferences considering Covid-19. Internet connectivity, GDP, anti-corruption, and market capitalization for technological innovations are essential ingredients for pandemic prevention and access to healthcare around the world. Leadership and change may create enormous potential for digitalization in aiding long-term impaired patients after Covid-19. These so-called Covid-19 Long Haulers have also started a trend of quick information exchange online, who as a vulnerable patient population require extra protection of their rights and dignity in the digital age. Future research demands for preventive medical care coupled with real-time measurement of health status but also the socioeconomic dynamics of human rest and recovery aided by novel technologies need to be explored.
