The past few years have been a time of transformation for the hospital-at-home model. As it cements its popularity, new players have begun to rise with it. While hospital at home has long been embraced across the globe — in Australia, Canada and across Europe, for example — the model popped up in the U.S. […]
Over the next year, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) expects to grow its Best Buy Health sales faster than its base business as it leans more heavily into its at-home care platform. “The role of technology within health care is becoming more important than ever and our strategy is to enable care at home for everyone,” […]
Hospitals and health systems are increasingly shifting more care into the home setting. Despite this, there’s still a greater need for technology, support and financial reimbursement in order to propel these efforts forward, a new report from Current Health suggests. “Our survey found that two-thirds of health system leaders are offering some type of care-at-home […]
Despite the growing popularity of remote patient monitoring (RPM) and home-based care delivery, the barriers that prevent widespread adoption of these solutions still remain. No one understands this better than Current Health, a company that has made enabling health care in the home its key area of focus. “I think that there are two major […]
In 2019, when I began covering home-based care, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) was just barely scraping the surface in the space. Paying $800 million for the senior-focused technology company GreatCall was nothing to scoff at, of course. But it wasn’t directly related. It certainly felt like much more was bubbling underneath the surface. In the […]
In collaboration with Parkland Health & Hospital System, Current Health has set its sights on tackling hypertension through home-based care. The partnership is indicative of how telehealth and remote care management companies have capitalized on the larger shift of care to the home during COVID-19. The goal of Current Health and Parkland’s hypertension monitoring program […]
Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) has signed an agreement to acquire the home-focused technology platform Current Health in an effort “to help make home the center of health,” according to the company. Along with the likes of Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Best Buy has been one of the retail giants that has steadily […]
Elara Caring hires chief operating officer Elara Caring has named Ananth Mohan its chief operating officer. “Ananth is joining Elara Caring at a time when his expertise is needed most,” Scott Powers, CEO of Elara Caring, said in a statement. “The addition of his strong health care operations background to our leadership team comes as […]
As the regulatory landscape continues to incentivize home-based care, health system leaders plan to beef up their investments in the space. Along these lines, 81% of decisionmakers intend to increase their investment in remote care technologies in the next 12 months. That’s according to a recent survey conducted by Current Health, a Boston-based company with […]
Current Health joins Moving Health Home Boston-based Current Health, a company that offers a remote care management platform to help health care providers conduct home-based care, has joined the Moving Health Home (MHH) coalition. MHH was created in March to influence lawmakers and advocate for legislation favorable to all sorts of home-based care. Its member […]
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