The news: Best Buy-owned remote patient monitoring (RPM) company Current Health is teaming up with Zoom to add telehealth capabilities to its at-home care platform.
- Current Health doesn’t offer any telehealth features currently.
More on Current Health: Current’s platform is compatible with electronic health records (EHRs), and it partners with telehealth providers, health systems and home health agencies.
- It collects health data like respiration rate, oxygen saturation, heart rate, and body temperature and uses AI to predict disease progression, helping providers deliver more tailored and effective care.
The company saw major growth during the pandemic: RPM use was already on an upward trajectory, but the pandemic accelerated that.
- Our forecast found that around 30 million people used RPM tech at least once per month in 2020—and that’s expected to more than double to 70.6 million by 2025.
- Current rode the pandemic-induced RPM wave: Its revenues jumped 3,000% year-over-year in 2020, and its health system customer roster grew 400%.
- Current Health clients include big names like Mount Sinai, Geisinger Health, and the UK’s National Health Service.
Why Zoom? It’s HIPAA-compliant, can integrate easily with EHR systems, and is a leading telehealth option for providers.
- 34% of US physicians and healthcare practitioners said they were using Zoom to access telehealth, per The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition.