Current Health is partnering with Cardinal Health’s Velocare supply chain solution to support patients using Current Health’s in-home monitoring kits.
The new agreement will streamline “patient onboarding for hospital-at-home programs, while reducing strain on clinical teams,” the companies said in a joint March 31 announcement.
The announcement described the new process as providing “last-mile fulfillment, installation and retrieval of Current Health’s in-home clinical monitoring kits. This collaboration helps health systems simplify operations, lower program costs, and reduce vendor complexity so their programs can grow more sustainably.”
Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) Velocare, which debuted in 2022, “rapidly delivers and maintains supplies and technology and ensures device readiness needed for high-acuity care in the home” and has supported “dozens of health systems and hospitals across major U.S. metropolitan areas, completing tens of thousands of home deliveries from coast to coast.”
Current Health, with American headquarters in Boston, and Cardinal Health Velocare, based in Dublin, Ohio, will integrate their platforms to reduce patients’ duplicate data entry and to streamline the patient setup process. “Care teams will gain real-time visibility into supplies and equipment delivery within existing workflows while Current Health’s 24/7 nursing team delivers continuous monitoring, outreach, and timely care escalation,” the announcement said.
“Acute care-at-home programs only scale when the clinical and operational pieces work together seamlessly,” said Christopher McGhee, CEO, Current Health. “As the leading clinical platform for advanced therapies and hospital-level care at home, we see the last mile as one of the biggest constraints on growth. Working with Velocare gives health systems a simpler patient onboarding workflow, supporting more enrollments and higher patient census capacity.”
“Since Velocare’s inception, we’ve been proud to play a leading role in helping health systems address workforce shortages, capacity constraints, rising costs and patient preference for in‑home recovery through our last-mile supply chain solution,” said Alex Hoopes, general manager, Velocare. “Working with platforms like Current Health helps health systems launch and scale acute care-at-home programs more efficiently. Companies advancing these models have an opportunity to work together in ways that simplify the work for health system teams, and our investments are designed to help them move through the early hurdles and grow these programs with confidence.”
