{"id":11230,"date":"2018-08-18T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11230"},"modified":"2018-08-17T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T15:02:43","slug":"best-buy-expands-work-in-senior-healthcare-with-800m-greatcall-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11230","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy expands work in senior healthcare with $800M GreatCall acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Spitzer for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Best Buy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20180815005630\/en\/Buy-Acquires-GreatCall-Leading-Connected-Health-Services\">signed<\/a>\u00a0a definitive agreement to purchase GreatCall, a provider of connected health and personal emergency response services targeting the senior population, for $800 million in cash Aug. 15. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/healthcare-information-technology\/best-buy-expands-work-in-senior-healthcare-with-800m-greatcall-acquisition.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_99900767sold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10006\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_99900767sold-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_99900767sold-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_99900767sold-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_99900767sold-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Spitzer for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Best Buy\u00a0signed\u00a0a definitive agreement to purchase GreatCall, a provider of connected health and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11231,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230\/revisions\/11231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}