Tag: Best Buy Health
In brief: Best Buy’s move, Quantum’s Roll Models, Amigo Mobility’s bookÂ
October 11, 2023HME News Staff
RICHFIELD, Minn. – Best Buy will sell the Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitoring system (CGM) to eligible customers through BestBuy.com, where they'll transition to a new platform, Wellness.BestBuyHealth.com, to complete the process.
It’s the first time the electronics giant will offer prescription-based medical devices to customers.
“Through our health and wellness categories at Best Buy, we make it easy to purchase any of our thousands of carefully curated...
Best Buy cracks into prescription-based medical devicesÂ
October 10, 2023HME News Staff
RICHFIELD, Minn. – Best Buy will sell the Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitoring system (CGM) to eligible customers through BestBuy.com, where they will be brought to a new platform, Wellness.BestBuyHealth.com, to complete the process.
It’s the first time the electronics giant will offer prescription-based medical devices to customers.
“Through our health and wellness categories at Best Buy, we make it easy to purchase any of our thousands of carefully curated...
In brief: Best Buy Health expands partnership, senators question ‘in the home’ requirementÂ
September 20, 2023HME News Staff
MINNEAPOLIS and DANVILLE, Pa. – Best Buy Health and Geisinger will expand their work together to bring in-home care for patients with chronic conditions.
Beginning in July 2022, Best Buy Health and Geisinger began deploying specially trained Geek Squad Agents to deliver, install and activate remote care management devices in a program that now involves 300 Geisinger patients. While in the home, agents educate patients on the technology in their care plan, answer questions about...
Best Buy Health, Geisinger partnership ‘makes difference,’ execs sayÂ
September 18, 2023HME News Staff
MINNEAPOLIS and DANVILLE, Pa. – Best Buy Health and Geisinger will expand their work together to bring in-home care for patients with chronic conditions.
Beginning in July 2022, Best Buy Health and Geisinger began deploying specially trained Geek Squad Agents to deliver, install and activate remote care management devices in a program that now involves 300 Geisinger patients. While in the home, agents educate patients on the technology in their care plan, answer questions about...
As they say, watch this space
March 31, 2023Liz Beaulieu, Editor
As we were working on the April issue, Best Buy Health announced a new partnership with Atrium Health to provide remote patient monitoring, telehealth and patient management technology for the health system’s hospital-at-home program.
It turns out Atrium Health, which reportedly has the largest such program in the country, is just the tip of the iceberg.
Best Buy Health’s care-at-home solution, Current Health, also has partnerships with five of the 10 largest health...
Reaction to Best Buy Health partnerships: ‘HME companies must innovate’Â
March 31, 2023Liz Beaulieu, Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – Best Buy Health’s recent partnerships with five of the 10 largest health systems to provide remote monitoring, telehealth and patient engagement services in the home is a sign the big box retailer is crossing over into HME territory, according to 77% of the respondents to a recent HME Newspoll.
Most recently, Best Buy, which acquired Current Health in 2021 and before that GreatCall in 2018, announced in March that it had a new partnership with Atrium Health,...
Atrium, Best Buy Health partner on hospital-at-homeÂ
March 7, 2023HME News Staff
CHARLOTTE, N.C., and MINNEAPOLIS – Atrium Health, an integrated, nonprofit health system with 40 hospitals and more than 1,400 care locations, and Best Buy Health are combining their strengths to develop new hospital-at-home offerings, they have announced.
The partnership takes advantage of Atrium Health’s leadership position in telemedicine, including a well-established hospital-at-home program, and Best Buy Health’s existing expertise and abilities, as well as its strengths...
Best Buy invests in Coeus h3c to expand access to home health
November 17, 2022HME News Staff
LAS VEGAS – Best Buy has made an investment in Coeus h3c and will use the Home Health Hybrid Cloud (h3c) to accelerate customer access to the full benefits of its home health devices and solutions. h3c is an end-to-end solution that manages the procurement, provision, delivery, installation and maintenance required for a successful home health experience. “Living independently, living well and accessing health care at home have clear and compelling benefits for people,” said Deborah...
Best Buy to acquire health technology platform
October 12, 2021HME News Staff
MINNEAPOLIS – Best Buy has signed an agreement to acquire Current Health, a technology platform that brings together remote patient monitoring, telehealth and patient engagement into a single solution for healthcare organizations.
“The future of consumer technology is directly connected to the future of healthcare,” said Deborah Di Sanzo, president of Best Buy Health. “We have the distinct expertise in helping customers make technology work for them directly in their...
Best Buy makes big healthcare buy
August 16, 2018HME News Staff
MINNEAPOLIS - Best Buy has signed a definitive agreement to buy Great Call, a San Diego-based provider of connected health and personal emergency response services to the aging population, for $800 million in cash. Great Call says it has more than 900,000 paying subscribers. “We know technology can improve the quality of life of the aging population and those who care for them,” said Hubert Joly, chairman and CEO of Best Buy. “Now, we have a great opportunity to serve the needs...