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Following acquisition by Telus, EQ Care launches new virtual health platform for workplaces Montréal-based virtual care company EQ Care has launched a new virtual health and wellness platform for workplaces, aimed to modernize traditional employee assistance programs (EAP). The new platform, called LifeJourney, gives employees personalized support when accessing their care plans, appointments, and prescriptions. LifeJourney comes two months after BetaKit reported that EQ Care ...

>> good evening greta. >> greta: you have an op-ed piece giving five ideas in terms of how to improve our health care system. one is paid for performance idea. what is that? >> in short, instead of payings did and clinics and hospitals and providers for volumes of procedures they perform, how we pay now we want to pay for better outcomes using procedures that work better. we started that in minnesota with the expensive procedures, chronic conditions and it is working. it is a start. if you pay p...

>> good evening greta. >> greta: you have an op-ed piece giving five ideas in terms of how to improve our health care system. one is paid for performance idea. what is that? >> in short, instead of payings did and clinics and hospitals and providers for volumes of procedures they perform, how we pay now we want to pay for better outcomes using procedures that work better. we started that in minnesota with the expensive procedures, chronic conditions and it is working. it is a start. if you pay p...