Modern Healthcare March 11, 2020
Felix Matthews, MD, MBA Managing Director and Lt. General (Ret.) C. Bruce Green, MD, MPH Managing Director

Virtual Health as a Catalyst for Care Model Transformation—Part 1

Virtual health has already demonstrated that it can act as a catalyst for care model transformation. Every day, new applications emerge that are tapping into virtual health’s transformative potential. We suggest that care model transformation occurs on (at least) three levels.

Temporality of virtual care:

  • Synchronous virtual health: real-time two-way digital communication between provider and patient
  • Asynchronous virtual health: data shared with provider for offline review
  • Use cases categorized as “both” can be either synchronous or asynchronous

We are proposing a virtual health landscape framework to illustrate the three transformation types by showcasing examples of demonstrated, emerging, and next-gen virtual health solutions. The framework features a settings of...

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Topics: Digital Health, Health System / Hospital, Physician, Provider, Technology, Telehealth
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