In 2020, Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) announced that it would be investing $1 billion in a relatively new primary care company: VillageMD. Since that point, the home- and community-focused VillageMD has thrived in the partnership with the behemoth retailer, so much so that Walgreens invested another $5.2 billion in the company this October. Despite […]
Category: Innovation
There’s more room than ever for companies looking to enter the aging-in-place arena and serve the needs of seniors. That’s just one major takeaway from a new report produced by venture capital firm Primetime Partners and thinktank First Longevity. Over the long term, there are demographic changes that will increase the need for aging-in-place services. […]
Home-based care providers are constantly pushing the idea of “aging in place.” But what sometimes goes overlooked is “aging in the right place.” For seniors, the most immediate component to aging in place is having a home in which to grow old. After that, though, seniors — and the providers that care for them — […]
Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) doesn’t know exactly how many in-home evaluations would be right for every senior yet, but it’s hoping to know soon enough. For now, it just believes that the more it can coordinate, the better. “I think that is the holy grail of community-based medicine – the puzzle that needs to be […]
MedArrive – a health care platform that helps payers and providers shift more care into the home – has secured $25 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by the venture capital fund Section 32, which invests in businesses on the frontier of health care and technology. Section 32 also previously invested […]
Resilient Healthcare, a high-acuity home-based care provider, recently partnered with Medical City Healthcare in order to offer hospital-at-home services. Through the partnership, eligible patients are connected to a live remote patient monitoring (RPM) device that continuously tracks blood pressure, before they leave the hospital and transition to their home. “They’re identified at the hospital as […]
The federal government and other private stakeholders play an important role in addressing the unique challenges of accelerating hospital-at-home delivery. That’s according to a group of health care experts who spoke on the future of hospital-at-home models during a Friday webinar hosted by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. […]
During an earnings call on Nov. 3, Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) leaders defended the company’s acquisition of hospital-at-home enabler Contessa Health. They also teased “substantial” deals for the company coming down the pike. A week later, Contessa announced that it had partnered with Penn State Health, which has a footprint that spans across 29 counties […]
“Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.” The quote, a line from American horror author Stephen King, perfectly describes the situation in which hospital-at-home programs find themselves. As of Nov. 11, 83 health systems and 187 hospitals in 34 states were participating in the Acute […]
Signify Health Inc. (NYSE: SGFY) believes that it will be more suited to deal with workforce shortages than other, more traditional home-based care providers. In fact, it has built a platform that’s flexible and tech-driven specifically to deal with the future in mind – a future that will include workforce issues and a shift to […]