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AAHomecare: Registration is Now Open for the Washington Legislative Conference 2017
Each year the HME community comes together in Washington, D.C. to advocate and strengthen relationships in Congress. It is a critical gathering, made stronger by greater numbers of participants demonstrating how important our relatively small share of the Medicare...
Highmark layoffs hit Harrisburg area and Pittsburgh
Highmark Health Solutions laid off 52 people this week, with 21 occurring at the Higmark operation in East Pennsboro Township in Cumberland County, and a similar amount occurring in Pittsburgh. The remainder affect Highmark locations elsewhere in Pennsylvania and in...
Telemedicine Comes to Georgia College Campus
Illustrating once again that the world of college education is fertile ground for deployment of cutting-edge healthcare technologies and telemedicine, one college campus in Georgia is about to experience the benefits of telehealth. On Wednesday, the Georgia...
3D Printing in Healthcare
No matter how much precision and care the prosthetics experts at Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) put into crafting an accurate prosthetic leg for one healthy, young female patient, she never felt quite right in it. It wasn’t until recently, with the aid...
Salesforce survey: Millennials want telehealth and mobile apps
Just ahead of the closing enrollment period for Obamacare, tech behemoth Salesforce released a report titled “The State of the Connected Patient 2015,” detailing the potentially huge shift in how patients interact with their providers, particularly younger patients,...
Telemedicine startup Avizia raises $4M to expand staff, explore acquisitions
Just a couple of months after it acquired Emerge.MD, telemedicine startup Avizia has raised fresh capital for an aggressive expansion plan this year. It raised $4 million, according to a Form D filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In an interview with...
7 ways tech can help fix the US healthcare system
From R&D to patient care, technology has the opportunity to drastically improve the US healthcare system. Here are seven important ways it can happen. It's no secret that the US healthcare system is broken. A report released by the Commonwealth Fund, a US think...
How Cloud Computing is Changing the Health Care IT Industry
Cloud-based services are steadily becoming more widely adopted by healthcare organizations. The past year alone has seen a surge of interest regarding the potential of cloud computing with many players set to start moving healthcare-related applications across to...
Diabetes Patients Using Mobile Reports Better Health Conditions
In a recent survey done on American Adults by digital health agency Klick Health says diabetes patients using digital tools to manage their health feel much better. A Survey Sampling International (SSI) was used by the Klick Health to take responses of 2,000 American...
Missouri Using Pharmacists to Improve Health Outcomes
MO HealthNet, Missouri’s Medicaid program, is a proponent of encouraging health education of its participants. By giving them information about their health issues and how to manage them, the participants can avoid more serious issues later on. One example is the...
The ResMed AirView System now Integrates with Brightree
Last Week ResMed and Brightree announced ResMed’s AirView patient management system will directly integrate with Brightree’s leading home medical equipment (HME) billing and business management software solution. “Since 2013, Brightree and ResMed have partnered to...