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Best Buy to sell continuous glucose monitoring systems

Healthcare Dive

Best Buy plans to start selling continuous glucose monitors in the next few weeks, in the tech retailer’s first foray into prescription-based medical device sales.

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Best Buy Health & Mass General Brigham Strike Landmark Partnership To Expand Healthcare At Home

Forbes

Two esteemed names in their respective industries, Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham (MGB), announced today that they will be collaborating to expand healthcare at home services.

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Geisinger doubles down on collaboration with Best Buy Health, Geek Squad to support tech-driven care in the home

Fierce Healthcare

As at-home healthcare becomes more tech-driven—think wireless biosensors and connected blood pressure cuffs—it creates more logistical challenges for providers.

This is where Best Buy Health sees an opportunity for its Geek Squad, historically known more for fixing computers than working with patients.

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Best Buy grows in-home care presence with assistance services

McKnights Home Care

Technology retailer Best Buy is expanding its home care offerings with services to keep older adults healthy, connected and comfortable in their homes.

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SXSW 2022: Best Buy, Samsung placing big bets on home health care as more seniors want to age in place

Fierce Healthcare

The number of households headed by people age 65 and older is expected to grow from 34 million to 48 million in the next two decades, according to studies from the Urban Institute.

This opens up the potential to use technologies to help seniors age at home, and it's a business opportunity that isn't lost on technology company Samsung and retail giant Best Buy.

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Best Buy Health president shares growth plans

Modern Healthcare

As president of Best Buy Health, Deborah Di Sanzo leads three focus areas for the company’s at-home health strategy: wellness at home, aging at home and care at home. She joins Modern Healthcare to discuss Best Buy’s plans for growth and why it sees big opportunities in healthcare.

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‘Project Pink Floyd’: Best Buy Health, Atrium Health team up on hospital at home | ViVE Conference

Chief Healthcare Executive

While having some fun, Shrestha and Deborah Di Sanzo, the president of Best Buy Health, touted their new partnership on improving the hospital-at-home experience. Best Buy Health is working with Atrium Health – which recently merged with Advocate Aurora Health to form Advocate Health.

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How major retailers are trying to change how America consumes health care

Axios

Amazon, Walmart, CVS, Dollar General and other big retailers are elbowing their way into health care delivery, pushing a customized consumer experience driven by digital health products. Yesterday, Best Buy Health launched a hospital-at-home program with North Carolina-based Atrium Health.

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Best Buy Pushes Deeper Into Healthcare With ‘Hospital At Home’ Partnership

Forbes

Best Buy is partnering with a large U.S. healthcare system to develop “new hospital at home offerings,” pushing deeper into developing new healthcare services and products.

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Best Buy’s Geek Squad is now going to start setting up virtual hospital rooms in your home

Fortune

Best Buy’s Geek Squad has been handed a task that’s a lot more sensitive that setting up your living room’s surround-sound system. The electronics retailer has partnered with Atrium Health to set up virtual hospital rooms in people’s homes.

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Best Buy will set up in-home hospital care through a new deal with Atrium Health

CNBC

Best Buy is best known for installing TVs and home theater systems. Now, its Geek Squad is helping to set up virtual hospital rooms.

The consumer electronics retailer said Tuesday it has struck a three-year deal with Atrium Health, a North Carolina-based health-care system, to help enable a hospital-at-home program.

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Best Buy, Walmart, other major US retailers tout health services

Reuters

Major U.S. retailers including Best Buy, Walmart and Amazon are increasing their offerings of healthcare and health-related products as inflation-wary Americans shift more of their budgets to services and away from goods.

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Hearing aids are now available over the counter at Walmart, Walgreens, CVS and Best Buy

CNBC

Millions of Americans with hearing loss can now purchase hearing aids without a prescription or medical exam from Walgreens, CVS and Best Buy, according to the companies.

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HIMSS23: Best Buy, VillageMD execs on tech not getting in the way

Modern Healthcare

Technology vendors and providers agree that digital health needs to improve provider workflows, increase access to care and avoid getting in the way.

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