Best Buy has struck a deal to sell devices and handle installation for a program that allows patients to get hospital care at home.
CEO Corie Barry said on an earnings call that Best Buy expects sales in its health division will grow faster than the rest of the business this fiscal year.Best Buy's Geek Squad will install health-care devices that power a hospital at home program for Atrium Health, a North Carolina-based nonprofit.is best known for installing TVs and home theater systems. Now, its Geek Squad is helping to set up virtual hospital rooms.
Best Buy's Geek Squad will go to patients' homes, set up technology that remotely monitors their heart rate, blood oxygen level or other vitals and train the patient or others in the home how to use the devices. The data would then be shared securely with doctors and nurses through the telemedicine hub from Current Health.
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