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Transactions: Best of Care Acquires Moving Logistics Company; Home-Based Care Startups Announce Fundraising Rounds

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This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Best of Care diversifies offerings through latest acquisition The Boston-based Best of Care is the latest home care provider to diversify its offerings through acquisition. In 2018, it also began providing concierge-level care management. in seed funding.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

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Sites included: “My” doctor’s office, favored by more people who were White or Asian, and those 45 years or older. Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients. For example, over 70% of patients are willingness to use a video virtual care visit based on the claim cost of $78.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

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physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Specialty care. Four in five U.S. Mental and behavioral health.

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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

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Most impressively, statistics-wise, was that visits to alternative venues like urgent care centers rose by 46.9%. The researchers pointed to several possible drivers to lower PCP visits including perceived visit needs, financial barriers like co-payments, and use of alternative sources of care. ” The U.S.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, note how patients’ trust and belief in the healthcare ecosystem has grown — and especially for health care providers. Bottom-line, by using technology to support communication and care, Accenture explains, health care providers were able to maintain and often improve the care experience.

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

Health Populi

One factor defining convenience is travel time to a facility: 40% of patients with in-person doctor’s appointments traveled less than 15 minutes to receive care, and 43% spent between 15 and 30 minutes getting to the doctor’s office.

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Resilient Healthcare, Medical City Healthcare Partner for Hospital-at-Home Venture

Home Health Care

The organization includes 16 hospitals, 11 ambulatory surgery centers, four off-campus emergency rooms and CareNow Urgent Care clinics. Typically, COPD and CHF patients are deemed good candidates for hospital-at-home care, according to Brian Chace, vice president of operations at Resilient. As of Nov.