Manatt Health June 1, 2021
Editor’s Note: Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and the adoption of innovative technologies, the U.S. health care system is transitioning to a new era of digitally enabled care characterized by delivery models that fully integrate in-person care and virtual care. However, the full spectrum of benefits generated by virtual care is often misunderstood due to the lack of a comprehensive value framework. In a new white paper, summarized below, the American Medical Association (AMA) and Manatt Health developed a framework to assess the total range of benefits that virtual care generates.
The white paper proposes a new framework to better understand the comprehensive value of digitally enabled care models. The framework accounts for the various ways in which virtual care...