Best Buy Stokes Healthcare Effort With Care-at-Home Platform Buy

Best Buy agreed to buy Current Health, a care-at-home technology platform that combines remote patient monitoring, telehealth and patient engagement for healthcare organizations, it said Tuesday. “The future of consumer technology is directly connected to the future of healthcare,” said Best Buy Health President Deborah Di Sanzo, saying the retailer has the expertise to help customers make technology work for them in their homes. Combining Current Health’s remote care management platform with Best Buy’s health products and services will allow it to create a “holistic care ecosystem” with quality care at low cost, she said. The platform integrates patient-reported data with data from biosensors -- including its own continuous monitoring wearable device -- to give healthcare organizations actionable, real-time insights into the patient’s condition, Best Buy said. Current Health CEO Christopher McCann cited Best Buy's reach, "world-class supply chain logistics" and support services that will allow the platform to provide a "high-touch consumer experience" at scale to help it move healthcare "into the home globally."