Inside Best Buy’s big bet on the Home

Although Best Buy is leaning into Current to develop enterprise partnerships with health systems, let’s call this what it is – a way for Best Buy to retain and grow retail sales through sticky vendor relationships. Healthcare revenue amounts to nothing in the larger Best Buy organization. It’ll be a while until Best Buy Health is taken seriously. From the Q4 commentary: “We are essentially nurturing a startup within a large-scale organization and leveraging Best Buy’s core assets, including the Geek Squad to incubate a new business. The revenue contribution is currently very small and will take time to ramp as the Care at Home space matures and expands over the coming years.”

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More Hot Takes on Physician Owned Hospitals

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I’m happy to present the first Hospitalogy guest post from Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, who recently began writing his newsletter Dem Dry Bones which pontificates on healthcare and health tech from a physician perspective.

I’ve also added in some interesting subscriber perspectives on the physician-owned hospital debate at the end of this post.

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Physician-Owned Hospitals: Good or Bad?

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There’s been discussion around physician-owned hospitals (POHs) after Senator James Lankford reintroduced a bill – the Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act (PAHQHCA – unreal) – that would repeal the ban on POHs. So I figured, why not dive into the two sides of the debate today?

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