Current Health

Person sitting in a chair while holding a phone and a cane and wearing headphones
By  Jessica Hagen 11:02 am September 14, 2023
Best Buy Health announced it is expanding its partnership with Pennsylvania-based healthcare system Geisinger to improve chronic disease management at home by combining their expertise.  In 2021, Geisinger launched ConnectedCare365, its chronic care management platform, and enrolled patients in remote patient monitoring programs. Patients received devices such as blood pressure cuffs and glucose...
An Atrium Health community paramedic consults with patient in his home.
By  Emily Olsen 12:10 pm March 7, 2023
Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health and Best Buy Health are partnering to develop new hospital-at-home offerings, the latest move in remote patient monitoring for the tech retailer. The partners said their deal would pair the health system's established telehealth and hospital-at-home programs with Best Buy's in-home services and supply chain. Best Buy's Geek Squad will assist with device set-up...
Adam Wolfberg, chief medical officer at Current Health
By  Jessica Hagen 10:40 am January 3, 2023
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...
One person lying in a bed and the other sitting beside the bed
By  Jessica Hagen 11:03 am November 16, 2022
Coeus.health, a cloud-based IT and logistics platform that coordinates in-home digital health devices and data, announced its receipt of an initial investment from consumer electronics retailer Best Buy. In its latest step to expand into the connected home healthcare space, the retail giant will use the remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform's Home Health Hybrid Cloud (H3C) to help customers...
Doctors looking at screen
By  Laura Lovett 03:00 pm March 8, 2022
Current Health is dipping into the chronic care space with new platform features that are designed to help healthcare organizations manage care for patients with a range of long-term health conditions.  The first feature lets clinicians integrate a larger ecosystem of third-party devices, including those that manage hypertension, asthma, COPD, CHF and diabetes. The second feature gives care teams...
An older couple talking to a doctor via telehealth
By  Emily Olsen 11:11 am October 12, 2021
Best Buy announced Tuesday it has signed an agreement to acquire home care and remote monitoring platform Current Health. Current offers a healthcare-at-home technology platform that uses biosensors to monitor a patient’s condition and identifies when they might need help from a clinician. The acquisition builds on Best Buy’s previous purchases focused on remote monitoring and senior care.  “The...
Hires
By  Laura Lovett 02:40 pm September 7, 2021
This morning decentralized clinical trial company Medable named Dr. MaryAnne Rizk as its new chief strategy officer. A trained engineer, Rizk has previously worked at Oracle, Medidata, Merck and IQVIA.  Her main role at the Palo Alto, Calif.-startup will be expanding the company’s global strategic partnerships.  “We’re excited to pursue a series of distinct and complementary partnerships across a...
Stethoscope, money and a calculator.
By  Mallory Hackett 02:21 pm April 22, 2021
Remote care management platform Current Health has closed a $43 million Series B financing round. Northpond Ventures led the round, along with LRVHealth, OSF HealthCare, Section 32, Elements Health Ventures and existing investors. In addition to the financing, Current Health is adding Andrea Jackson, Director at Northpond Ventures, and Tripp Peake, General Partner at LRVHealth, to its board of...
Community by Current Health is now enrolling participants in a COVID-19 study that uses its FDA-cleared remote monitoring system.
By  Mallory Hackett 11:41 am February 16, 2021
Current Health, a remote patient monitoring platform, has launched Community, its latest initiative to build diverse longitudinal datasets for decentralized clinical trials. Using its FDA-cleared remote monitoring system, Current Health collects hospital-level data such as respiratory rate, heart rate, temperature, oxygen saturation and movement without asking the patient to leave home. The...
By  Dave Muoio 03:01 pm October 13, 2020
Digital check-in, insurance eligibility and automated patient collections technology company Clearwave today announced that it has purchased Odoro, the maker of a patient-scheduling and check-in tool. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal, but said that they plan to integrate Odoro's scheduling technology into Clearwave's platform so that both the patient and practice can...