ATLANTA (September 20, 2018)—Industry advocate and leader Regina Gillispie, president and owner of West Virginia-based Best Home Medical, will be honored as the recipient of the 2018 Van Miller Homecare Champion Award at the upcoming Medtrade show in Atlanta, Georgia.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 20, 2018)—Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) has released a Congressional sign-on letter to leadership at CMS, HHS and OMB asking for additional relief for the HME community in the proposed ESRD/DMEPOS Rule currently under consideration. The letter is expected to close by Friday, September 28. AAHomecare asd HME providers and other stakeholders to ask their Representatives in the House to join the letter.
Relationships Enable Client-First Care
It’s no secret that America’s population is aging rapidly. According to the United States Census Bureau, by the year 2030, all baby boomers will be older than age 65—1 in every 5 U.S. residents will be retirement age. With age comes the potential need for some type of care. The Home Care Association of America reports that around 70 percent of adults aged 65 and older will need assistance at some point in their lives. This could include personal care, such as help with bathing, hygiene and mobility, assistance with daily tasks around the home, and even dementia care.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (September 20, 2018)—Bridge Connector, which delivers streamlined integration solutions for health care organizations, announced a partnership with PointClickCare Technologies, a cloud-based software vendor for the long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) industry. Together, the companies expect to accelerate seamless integration in the health care technology industry, solving the critical problem of transferring patient data across disparate systems.
ATLANTA (September 18, 2018)—Medtrade attendees looking for help to compete with Amazon and other online retailers have a new place to go—The eRetail Experience by Health Mobius. There will be two one-hour sessions Tuesday, October 16 (11 a.m.-noon and 4 p.m.-5 p.m.) and Wednesday, October 17 (10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.). All four sessions are free, identical and attendees may select one session.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (September 18, 2018)—Help Unlimited, a locally-owned and operated homecare agency, and Honor, founder of the Honor Care Network, have announced a new partnership.
SAN CARLOS, Calif. (September 17, 2018) WHILL, Inc., the company behind next-generation personal electric vehicles (PEVs), announced today that it has completed procurement of $45 million dollars in funding led by investors SBI Investment Co., Ltd., Daiwa PI Partners Co. Ltd., and Daiwa Corporate Investment Co. Ltd (affiliates of Daiwa Securities Group Inc.), and WHIZ Partners, Inc., as well as Endeavor Catalyst and others.
EXETER, Penn. (September 17, 2018)—Pride Mobility Products announces growth in provider retail sales through its in-house support services with CareCredit promotional financing for consumers.
Having one of the mobility industry’s longest partnerships with CareCredit consumer financing for mobility products, Pride has seen an increase in its CareCredit-associated providers’ retail sales.
AMSTERDAM and PARIS (September 14, 2018)—At the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress 2018 in Paris, France (September 15–19), Royal Philips a provider of health technology, will showcase the company’s growing portfolio of advanced connected care solutions designed to foster effective and efficient care for chronic respiratory and sleep conditions.
SAN DIEGO (September 13, 2018)—ResMed introduced its first minimal-contact full-face CPAP mask, AirFit F30, the latest addition to its AirFit mask portfolio, which helps users reduce facial marks, wear glasses in bed and curl up closer to their bed partner.
AirFit F30 sits below the nasal bridge, preventing top-of-the-nose red marks and irritation, and reducing feelings of claustrophobia for some full-face wearers.