Home Health Care News October 12, 2021
Andrew Donlan

Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) has signed an agreement to acquire the home-focused technology platform Current Health in an effort “to help make home the center of health,” according to the company.

Along with the likes of Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Best Buy has been one of the retail giants that has steadily increased its interests in both health care and the home over the last few years.

In 2018, Best Buy acquired GreatCall — a company that specializes in helping seniors age in place through smart phones, medical alert devices and other technology – for $800 million. Since then, it has been mostly quiet on the acquisition front, but has still signaled through earnings calls that it...

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