May 2016 HME Business

May 2016


Feature

HME Dashboard

Information Technology

HME Dashboard Essentials

By Joseph Duffy

HME software systems offer many dashboard options to help providers monitor metrics. What performance indicators should be on your executive instrument cluster?


standard power mobility

Business Solutions

Reinventing Standard Mobility

By David Kopf

As reimbursement for standard power mobility has declined, mobility providers have learned that they have needed to broaden and diversify their offerings to those patients. Fortunately, there are a variety of product categories and business approaches that pair well with standard power mobility offerings.


HME Mobile Technology

Information Technology

Putting IT in the Field

By Joseph Duffy

Mobile technology has a come a long way in a short time, empowering providers to make better business decisions and improve satisfaction right at the patient’s doorstep.


sleep market

Products & Technology

Turning the Key of Sleep Success

By Joseph Duffy

Investing in the right tools to automate your business and keep track of both patient and operational metrics can help your business unlock expanded success in the sleep market. And if you cannot regularly report on these elements and share them with healthcare professionals and payors, your sleep practice could be left out in the cold.


Column

Editor's Note

Lowered Expectations

By David Kopf

Is one of competitive bidding's nasty unintended consequences the accidental establishment a 'class system' among Medicare beneficiaries?


Observation Deck

Industry Intersections

By Georgie Blackburn

Regular updates on the reimbursement policy with a good friend helped put the industry's challenges in perspective.


Article

Problem Solvers

Catering to Wound Care Customers

By David Kopf

Support surface providers can wield their in-depth product knowledge to great effect when helping wound care clinicians and their patients.


Afflovest Oscillation Therapy

Product Spotlight

Afflovest Shakes Up Oscillation Therapy

By David Kopf

High frequency chest wall oscillation vest lets providers offer new therapeutic approach to a variety of patients while also tapping into an important Medicare code.


Product Solutions

Compression

Compression products are an attractive opportunity to help a lot of people while growing additional revenue streams. Let's look at some of the latest solutions on the market.


Sidebar:

Technology and Sleep Therapy

Cape Medical Supply has built a sleep therapy program the grew from 33 percent of the business in 2012 to 55 percent by the end of 2015. How did Cape do it?


Information Technology

Sidebar: Empowering Providers

Mobile technology experts discuss how mobile IT can help providers and their staff in the field.


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