Workweek March 14, 2023
Best Buy partners with major health systems on hospital-at-home initiatives
In the ever-advancing encroachment of retail players onto healthcare, Best Buy announced a 3-year deal with Advocate Health to partner on legacy Atrium Health’s hospital-at-home (HaH) program, one of the largest in the country having served 6,000+ patients since the program began. The Atrium HaH program will provide care coverage to a population of around 6 million people while serving around 100 patients at a time as an extension of the hospital. Along with Atrium, Best Buy’s Current Health now holds “‘relationships’ with 5 of the top 10 largest health systems in the US including Geisinger, Mount Sinai, NYU Langone Health, and others” according to comments from their Q4 earnings...