Telehealth and medical transportation company DocGo announced it is partnering with New York-based not-for-profit health insurer EmblemHealth to provide patients with in-home services, such as transitional care management, following discharge from the hospital.
Emblem and DocGo will work closely to offer New York and Connecticut-based patients access to A1C screenings, colorectal cancer...
Best Buy is one of several retail giants that has made its way into healthcare, with its health division dubbed Best Buy Health focusing on uniting home-based senior care and tech-enabled human interaction.
Diana Gelston, chief commercial officer at Best Buy Health, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss Best Buy's role in the healthcare ecosystem and what it looks for in a partner.
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California-based virtual care company Included Health is partnering with Denver-based in-home care provider DispatchHealth to add a virtual-to-in-home care model to its offerings.
Included Health delivers healthcare benefits and insurance navigation services as well as virtual primary care, behavioral health, specialty care and 24/7 urgent care appointments.
DispatchHealth allows patients to...
Home care and remote patient monitoring platform Current Health offers a technology platform that uses biosensors to monitor a patient's condition at home and identify when they might need help from a clinician.
Best Buy acquired the Boston-based company in 2021, adding to the retail giant's portfolio of remote patient monitoring and senior care companies.
Adam Wolfberg, Current Health's chief...
Across the U.S. and Europe, the population is rapidly aging. In Finland this "silver tsunami" is particularly true.
Roughly 22% of the country’s population is over the age of 65, a figure only expected to grow over the next decade, according to Statistics Finland. Moreover, in about 50 years over a third of the population will be classified as a senior citizen.
In the nation’s capital, the...
Medically Home Group, a services company that supplies remote care technology for at-home acute care, has added a $10 million strategic investment from Cardinal Health and other unnamed backers of its ongoing Series B funding round.
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The company pitches its “Virtual Hospital” service as an alternative to lengthy and expensive hospital stays. It deploys monitoring and communication...
In February, Edinburgh, Scotland-based Current Health (formerly snap40) received FDA clearance for clinical use of its artificial intelligence-enabled device and platform for remote patient monitoring in the hospital.
Taking things one step further, the company announced this morning that it has also received the regulator’s blessing for use in post-acute care — what Current Health is calling “...
