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A new app allows seniors enrolled in the Lively Health & Safety offering to access in-home support services through Apple's wearable.
Lively, Best Buy's aging-in-place brand, comes to Apple Watches
By Dave Muoio | 02:49 pm | March 04, 2021
A new app allows seniors enrolled in the Lively Health & Safety offering to access in-home support services through Apple's wearable.
Best Buy health launches a new flip phone aimed at the senior market
By Laura Lovett | 02:18 pm | September 29, 2020
The phone is able to connect with Amazon Alexa voice services. 
Peloton wraps up its lawsuits, Best Buy launches Lively Wearable2 for seniors and more digital health news briefs
By Dave Muoio | 04:26 pm | February 27, 2020
Also: Snapchat to surface mental health resources during user searches.
Health Scholar's VR training for cardiac care, Wolters Kluwer's mobile CME management and more digital health news briefs
By Dave Muoio | 02:58 pm | April 10, 2019
Also: New funding rounds for Enlitic, Diameter Health and Candid.
GreatCall's health tech strategy: Meeting seniors where they are
By Jonah Comstock | 11:19 am | March 28, 2019
GreatCall CEO David Inns talks to MobiHealthNews about remote monitoring, predictive analytics and why wearables aren't for everyone.
Greatcall deploying remote monitors to CNA policyholders, OptimizeRx's app joins IllumiCare's platform, and more digital health deals
By Dave Muoio | 04:39 pm | January 29, 2019
Also: Quartet Health, BCBS of North Carolina launch mental health initiative; Push Doctor deploys Datix's modules.
GreatCall launches senior ride service with Lyft, Cognetivity joins dacadoo's digital platform, and more digital health deals
By Dave Muoio | 11:24 am | November 13, 2018
Also: Renown Health taps PeriGen's surveilance and analysis software; Premier Inc. acquires CDS toolmaker Stanson Health
GreatCall launches Jitterbug Smart2, its new UX-focused smartphone for seniors
By Jonah Comstock | 11:01 am | August 30, 2018
This is the company's first new phone since 2016, and since its $800M acquisition by Best Buy earlier this month.
Best Buy acquires aging in place tech company GreatCall for $800M
By Jonah Comstock | 05:33 pm | August 15, 2018
San Diego-based GreatCall — an old guard digital health company which started out making smartphones for seniors in 2006 but now offers a suite of connected safety products and services for aging in place individuals — has been acquired by retail chain Best Buy for $800 million.
GreatCall unveils Lively Wearable, an activity tracking, personal emergency response device
By Aditi Pai | 05:48 pm | January 05, 2016
Only a month after GreatCall announced that it had acquired the assets of aging in place startup Lively, GreatCall unveiled the Lively Wearable by GreatCall.