HealthExec October 10, 2023
The past several days have seen a series of noteworthy healthcare developments involving brick-and-mortar consumer stores. Here are three (plus one).
1. Best Buy is entering the diabetes care business and expanding Best Buy Health.
The consumer electronics player will soon be selling continuous glucose monitoring systems and delivering them to patients’ homes.
Product selection will be limited to a single CGM make and model, the Dexcom G7, and the retailer is partnering with virtual care platformer Wheel and pharm-tech company HealthDyne to pull off the market entry.
Best Buy—which operates more than 1,100 brick-and-mortars in the U.S. and Canada while moving around 33% of its wares online—says the move aligns with Best Buy Health, which it launched in...