A couple years back, UMass Memorial Health outlined new strategies and ideas for the future, with a hospital-at-home program being one of them. At the end of the exercise, that idea ranked 17th on its internal priority list. Fast forward to the end of 2020, and the installation of a hospital-at-home program had shot up […]
Current Health
Current Health — a remote patient monitoring platform that has increasingly turned its attention toward the home — has raised $43 million in Series B funding. The company announced the news on Thursday. Boston-based Current Health’s technology platform measures a patient’s vital signs in real time, allowing clinicians to provide enhanced virtual care for patients […]
Home-based hospital care has been a hot topic ever since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled its “Acute Hospital Care at Home” initiative in November. Seemingly every time the concept is mentioned, Mount Sinai Health System’s name comes up. The New York-city based health system launched Mount Sinai at Home in 2014 […]
Current Health — makers of an artificial intelligence-powered wearable remote patient monitoring platform — cleared a major regulatory hurdle last month in securing FDA approval. The U.K.-based technology startup now has its sights set on expanding throughout the U.S. market, largely by helping home health agencies adapt to the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) and by […]