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Expanding the patient-centric care delivery model<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ken Abrams, MD, MBA, Managing Director, National Chief Physician Executive, Deloitte Consulting LLPSummer Knight, MD, MBA, Virtual Health Platform Portfolio Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLPBill Fera, MD, Virtual Health Enterprise Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLPFelix Matthews, MD, MBA, Virtual Health Strategy Leader, Deloitte Consulting LP<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Virtual health uses telecommunication and networked technologies to connect clinicians with patients (and with other clinicians) to remotely deliver health care services and support well-being. For providers, committing to virtual health at a personal and organizational level affords ever-increasing opportunities to deliver the right care at the right time in the right place, in a connected and coordinated manner.
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By strengthening and facilitating a therapeutic alliance between clinicians and patients, virtual health is an important step on our continuous journey to humanize health care. It works within and around a patient\u2019s life, as opposed to their sickness, to deliver care when, where, and how they need and want it. Also, virtual health works its way into consumers\u2019 daily routines by being embedded in electronic devices associated with living life (e.g., smartphones and personal computers) more so than caring for sickness. The health care industry is primed for expanded adoption of virtual health; a 2016 report estimated that the US virtual health market will reach $3.5 billion in revenues by 2022. Several factors are elevating stakeholder interest, including expected physician shortages, continued growth in digital technologies, changing reimbursement models, increasing consumer demand, and the evolving regulatory landscape. One game-changer: Today, nine in 10 American adults use the internet, giving clinicians the capability and flexibility to communicate with and serve health care consumers via the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article explains how virtual health is humanizing health care, enabling powerful new ways to connect, offers strategies and steps that health care providers should consider when implementing virtual health programs, and provides examples of virtual patient-centric care in action. Virtual health enables continuous, connected care<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Virtual health has the capacity to inform, personalize, accelerate, and augment people\u2019s ability to care for one another. Virtual health programs can take many forms. Common applications include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n