Digital Medicine Society And Veterans Health Administration Introduce Fit-For-Purpose Framework

The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) is partnering with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to evaluate the agency’s health care innovations using a fit-for-purpose framework that gauges financial and quality effects, value over time, effects on patients and the health care system, and stakeholder perspectives. Although the framework is exclusive to veterans, DiMe hopes the greater health community will eventually adopt the approach to shift away from the current economic-focused framework to a quality-of-life approach that leverages digital innovations. The VHA...