UnitedHealth, an insurance giant, just scooped up patient monitoring startup Vivify Health

CNBC October 30, 2019
Christina Farr

UnitedHealth Group‘s Optum division has acquired patient-monitoring start-up Vivify Health, according to two people familiar with the deal.

Vivify sits in the remote patient monitoring space, providing connected devices and other technologies to track at-risk patients at home. In theory, such interventions will help reduce the number of patients rushing to the emergency room, which is highly expensive for a health plan. Instead, remote patient monitoring companies claim that they can intervene earlier, when a patient might need less costly support, such as an in-person visit from a nurse to their home.

The market for these tools is large and growing, making it attractive to health care companies like UnitedHealth, which is the world’s largest health care company in the...

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