Software/IT
There are various ways in which HME software offerings improve HME providers' workflow to create more efficient and more cost-effective business processes. Additionally, there are other technology offerings available to providers, such as delivery management systems and outsourced financial services, that offer workflow features, as well. Let’s take a look at what’s available:
Ossur
Empower
Service assists prior auth compliance for braces
Össur’s Empower practice and workflow management system
now complies with CMS’s new prior-authorization
requirements for commonly
prescribed knee and spinal orthoses,
which the agency has been rolling out
this year. Empower offers an automated,
customizable web-based solution that
helps physician practices, HME providers,
and prosthetic and orthotic suppliers with
day-to-day practice management solutions
by combining reimbursement, real-time
inventory management, and consulting
services within a single paperless platform.
Computers Unlimited
TIMS Patient Subscriptions
Software update helps providers enroll patients in resupply at intake
Computers Unlimited has announced its latest product for HME providers:
TIMS Patient Subscriptions. TIMS Patient
Subscriptions is designed to give providers
an intuitive and easy-to-implement
application that lets them enroll their
patients in a resupply subscription during
the initial intake. This application is fully
integrated with all the RCM features TIMS
already offers. Key integration points
include, easy patient auto enrollment;
automated compliance checks (eligibility,
utilization, documentation, and
authorizations); patient contact options
(phone, email, text, or IVR); and auto-generated
qualified orders.
Atlas Enterprise Software
ATLAS e-Script Portal
e-Script portal gives HME and CRT providers seamless, efficient electronic order processing
ATLAS Enterprise Software’s new ATLAS e-Script Portal facilitates electronic prescriptions
for HME and CRT providers. Using a web
browser to access the ATLAS e-Script
Portal, the referral process can begin and
be completed quickly and accurately. The
e-Script Portal is also built into ATLAS
Enterprise Software at no additional fee to
its HME or CRT provider users. The addition
of e-Scripts facilitates seamless, efficient,
end-to-end order processing management
for HME and CRT providers.
Computers Unlimited
TIMS Patient Subscriptions
New software automates and streamlines patient resupply
CU’s latest software innovation, TIMS
Patient Subscriptions, streamlines and
automates the patient resupply process.
The new application is designed to
be easy to setup, intuitive to use, and
designed to significantly reduce labor costs. Key integration points
include easy patient auto enrollment; automated compliance
checks (eligibility, utilization, documentation, and authorizations);
patient contact options (phone, email, text, or IVR); and auto-generated
qualified orders.
Medtech Solutions
Appoint360
Appoint360 provides a smart, intuitive
appointment booking solution to help HME
providers schedule appointments faster
and more easily. Appoint360 provides
customized scheduling page for both
DME users and patients to view real-time
availability of therapists and location for
booking appointments. The system helps
both the patient and DME to schedule,
confirm and follow up via texting, calling,
and emailing, and a single dashboard can
track and monitor appointments to gain
scheduling insights. This helps provider
staff to spend less time managing appointments
and instead focus on value-based
care.
van Halem Group - A Division of VGM Group, Inc.
Compliance Package
Compliance packages and HIPAA software protect providers
Medtrade West attendees will receive 10
percent off The van Halem Group’s monthly
compliance package rate for the first 12
months. The packages are designed to
protect HME businesses from unnecessary
compliance issues. Also on display at the
Medtrade West show is HIPAAwise, The van Halem Group’s
HIPAA compliance software, which offers a
comprehensive, cost-effective solution to
help HME companies manage a successful
HIPAA compliance program.
McKesson Medical-Surgical
McKesson Biomedical Solutions
Inventory management services designed to cut providers' costs
McKesson Biomedical Solutions, an offering of McKesson Medical-Surgical Inc., is a solution to HME providers’ equipment needs,
offering rental of infusion, enteral and respiratory devices while
providing high-quality services, including preventative maintenance,
biomedical equipment repairs, asset management
programs and equipment tracking with our McKesson OneTrack
technology. Outsourcing these needs helps you reduce capital
expenditure, maximize equipment utilization, and stay compliant
with equipment repair and service needs, allowing you more time
to focus on your business and patient needs.
Universal Software Solutions, Inc.
Healthcare Data Management System
A complete, fully integrated practice management solution
Universal Software Solutions’
Healthcare Data Management System (HDMS) offers a complete, fully integrated practice management
solution with complete operational software for post-acute
healthcare, specialty pharmacy and home infusion providers. USS also
offers StowPoint, a modern content management solution. StowPoint
can capture and house all of a provider’s scanned hardcopy documentation,
as well as many other formats to create virtual customer
files. The company developed its solutions with an eye on helping its
clients run successful operations in the healthcare industry.
Curasev
Curasev
Curasev is a cloud-based management
platform to help HME providers
streamline their business and better serve their patients. Recently,
Curasev partnered with CardConnect to allow for merchant integration
and automatic credit card processing and billing. It has also
added ERA auto-posting which will let users auto-post payments
rather than manually posting them. A companion mobile delivery
routing solution app Curapro helps delivery drivers view and
change their routes as well as automatically send SMS notifications
to patients to allow for smoother delivery processing.
ATLAS Clinical Evals Software ACES
ATLAS Clinical Eval Software ACES
Single platform for patient mobility evaluations and seamless referrals
ATLAS Clinical Eval Software (ACES)
increases E2D, revenue cycle, and annual revenues to the ATP and
provider. With ATLAS Clinical Eval Software (ACES), the ATP can
prepare the integrated patient mobility and home evaluations
within the software and refer it seamlessly to the therapist’s ACES
secured portal. The Therapist can use ACES for clinical mobility
evaluations that allows a mobility evaluation to be conducted in
person or remotely at the patient’s home. ACES manages the therapist’s
report and other necessary documentation that supports the
patient mobility equipment to insure it is complete and accurate.