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Speedoc to deliver home healthcare for Parkway Shenton

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Parkway Shenton, which operates over 50 GP clinics across the country, taps into Speedoc's capabilities in home healthcare to offer the option to deliver care within the comfort of their patients' homes. Last year, it received $28 million in pre-Series B funding for this purpose.

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Alternative Home Care Employment Models: From Workforce Sharing to Self-Directing Strategies

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This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Lucas O’Connell, VP of Operations at AssuranceSD, Francesca Rinaldo, head of clinical strategy for home care at Sharecare, and Christina Andrews, senior director of professional services at Axxess. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Taking a patient-centric approach to value-based care

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The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients.

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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Health Populi

Through their lens on real estate, JLL wove three themes from the consumer poll: Location and convenience matter most to patients, and health care providers can leverage patient preferences to inform site selection especially for scarce facility types.

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Florida Blue Medicare, Emcara Health Launch Home-Based Primary Care Program

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Florida Blue Medicare — the state’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare plan — is collaborating with Emcara Health to offer eligible members access to home-based primary care. The collaboration reflects how payers are increasingly turning to in-home care organizations of all shapes and sizes.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

Patients managing cardiology and vascular diseases expressed the highest praise for quality of care using videoconferencing (97%, virtually all patients polled, saying quality care was at least as good or better than face-to-face care.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. Quality of care not as good as in-person (among 67% of older people). 24% had privacy concerns. .”