Best Buy’s (NYSE: BBY) at-home health care focus has become a regularly mentioned topic for the company. After purchasing Current Health – a well-known home-based remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform – for $400 million last year, the company has established itself among the likes of other top retailers that have become heavily engaged in the […]
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Lifespark and Envoy America are expanding a partnership between the two organizations with the launch of Lifespark GO! Their latest collaboration will deliver transportation services to residents of 14 Lifespark senior living communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin — an expansion of a partnership that provides these services to its home-based care clients. Lifespark originally entered […]
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have considerably increased their home-based care arsenals over recent years. They’ve also diversified the types of home-based care they offer, and are finally finding ways for it to make economic sense in capitated models. That’s according to the Institute for Accountable Care (IAC), which conducted a wide-ranging study on ACOs and […]
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) recently floated the idea of home health acquisitions and partnerships. Mostly, it has repeatedly doubled down on the idea that it wants to get into the home. Of the driving forces of that is its own insurer, Aetna. What Aetna believes is best for its members and the health of its […]
Home-based palliative care is an untapped business opportunity for many home health and hospice providers in the U.S., but multiple factors continue to hinder near-term scalability. Data on the availability of home-based palliative care is limited, so it’s difficult to pinpoint just how large the market really is. Experts familiar with the space have previously […]
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) has become one of the most interesting home-adjacent health care players since its investor day last December. It’s possible that the “adjacent” tag will soon be dropped, and the company will be squarely in the home-based care space. “We are diversifying our growth portfolio with new health services,” CVS Health President […]
Element5 announced on Tuesday that it has raised $30 million in a Series B. This latest round of funding was led by the New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners. Insight Partners has a history with Element5. Last year, the VC and PE firm also led Element5’s $15 million Series A. “[Insight […]
It would be silly to have an argument over whether value-based care is a good principle. That’s unless, of course, you had to parse out what exactly each individual or organization meant when they referred to value-based care. No one would argue – or should argue – that making the health care system more focused […]
The right partnership can be a powerful tool for businesses looking to expand their service offerings, enhance their internal operations or even gain an edge over competitors. Over the years, home care providers have gone beyond just forming relationships with industry peers. These collaborations have yielded a significant return on investment (ROI) for agencies. In […]
Reimagine Care – an at-home oncology care enabler that recently raised $25 million – has brought its approach to a new kind of patient. Through a partnership with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Reimagine will be tackling complex bone marrow transplant patients in the home. CU Innovations – a part of the University […]
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