Technology Companies Are Betting On A Healthcare Revolution: Bringing Hospital Care To The Patient’s Home

Healthcare-at-home is a concept that has increasingly become popular nationally, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic. Given stay-at-home restrictions and social isolation orders during the pandemic, patients realized the incredible potential value in receiving their healthcare services in the comfort of their own homes. Moreover, the pandemic also introduced a new layer of complexity for patients and their families: in many situations, patients that got admitted to the hospital during the pandemic could not have their family members in the hospital with them given the risk of infection; this was a significant source of distress for many. At the conference, Jean Olive, Chief Technology Officer at Best Buy Health, discussed how the technology and devices used in hospitals are not particularly complex or difficult to bring to home.