Clearwater, Fla. Most people active on the Internet have seen the spammed e-mails about a Nigerian prince promising rich reward in exchange for a relatively

 

 

Electronic document exchange (EDE), including the electronic certificate of medical necessity, or e-CMN, has been inching through the HME pipeline for several years.

One of my favorite television commercials shows a professional woman at a business meeting. When the camera pans down, you see that she is sitting at her kitchen table in fuzzy slippers, looking at a computer screen.

What’s the One Product that can help you control your future? Your computer.

E-commerce, encompassing everything from electronic ordering to just-in-time inventory management, has improved supply-chain logistics in various industries--but not HME, at least not on a wide scale.

 

While it’s clear that information technology can improve the operations of any HME, the challenge is figuring out how to begin and where to spend your money.

In answer to requests from both government officials and industry stakeholders, the National Supplier Clearinghouse has drafted new written guidance for