Current Health

Christopher McGhee, Co-founder and CEO of Current Health, took part in the Converge programme in 2014, ultimately winning first prize in the KickStart Challenge category for his AI-enabled wearable which monitors patients remotely both in hospital and at home. 

A computer science graduate, Chris went onto medical school at the University of Dundee where he identified a key problem with the monitoring of patients. He noticed that some patients deteriorated because warning signs were detected too late. This lightbulb moment led to the development of Current Health and Chris subsequently left medical school to focus on the company full-time.  

After raising £48m in funding over six rounds, from VCs based in both Scotland and overseas, the hospital-at-home solution was acquired by US retail giant Best Buy in 2021 for $400million. 

Now, some four years later, Chris McGhee has reacquired the Boston-based business with plans to build the company into the “world’s largest health care organisation”. Explaining his motivation, McGhee share on LinkedIn: “I came back to build Current Health into a globally significant company. The future of healthcare is in the home and the community and we have a role to play in that transformation”.