Best Buy is one of several retail giants that has made its way into healthcare, with its health division dubbed Best Buy Health focusing on uniting home-based senior care and tech-enabled human interaction.
Diana Gelston, chief commercial officer at Best Buy Health, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss Best Buy's role in the healthcare ecosystem and what it looks for in a partner.
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Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health and Best Buy Health are partnering to develop new hospital-at-home offerings, the latest move in remote patient monitoring for the tech retailer.
The partners said their deal would pair the health system's established telehealth and hospital-at-home programs with Best Buy's in-home services and supply chain. Best Buy's Geek Squad will assist with device set-up...
Home care and remote patient monitoring platform Current Health offers a technology platform that uses biosensors to monitor a patient's condition at home and identify when they might need help from a clinician.
Best Buy acquired the Boston-based company in 2021, adding to the retail giant's portfolio of remote patient monitoring and senior care companies.
Adam Wolfberg, Current Health's chief...
Coeus.health, a cloud-based IT and logistics platform that coordinates in-home digital health devices and data, announced its receipt of an initial investment from consumer electronics retailer Best Buy.
In its latest step to expand into the connected home healthcare space, the retail giant will use the remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform's Home Health Hybrid Cloud (H3C) to help customers...
Wearable fitness company WHOOP announced Best Buy will now sell WHOOP 4.0, its screenless data collection wearable, and accompanying accessories at more than 200 of the retail giant's locations and on its website.
WHOOP's wearable health tracker collects physiological data on heart rate, sleep, recovery and strain. Users also have the option to track their menstrual cycle. A corresponding app...
Managing chronic conditions in the home using remote monitoring, virtual care and other tools is an increasingly popular space in digital health.
Chronic conditions, including diseases like diabetes, heart disease and stroke, are common in the U.S. and make up the vast majority of the nation's healthcare expenditure. The country's population is aging, but many say they would prefer to stay in...
Current Health is dipping into the chronic care space with new platform features that are designed to help healthcare organizations manage care for patients with a range of long-term health conditions.
The first feature lets clinicians integrate a larger ecosystem of third-party devices, including those that manage hypertension, asthma, COPD, CHF and diabetes. The second feature gives care teams...
Best Buy announced Tuesday it has signed an agreement to acquire home care and remote monitoring platform Current Health.
Current offers a healthcare-at-home technology platform that uses biosensors to monitor a patient’s condition and identifies when they might need help from a clinician. The acquisition builds on Best Buy’s previous purchases focused on remote monitoring and senior care.
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Yesterday Best Buy announced that it has brought a collection of senior-focused emergency-response services to the Apple Watch via its Lively brand, and plans to add fall detection down the line.
Apple Watch Series 4 device owners who are signed up with a Lively Health & Safety plan (which starts at $19.99 per month) can download the Lively app for on-the-wrist access to three of the service'...
Best Buy has long been a staple of big box retail stores in the U.S. However, its efforts in the healthcare space span more than a decade. Today the retail giant is looking to the future and taking advantage of the new digital opportunities that have presented themselves within the last year.
MobiHealthNews sat down with Sarah Jones, vice president for commercial product at Best Buy Health, to...
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