WATERLOO, Iowa (October 23, 2017)—VGM officials announced they are now accepting proposals from prospective speakers for the 17^th annual Heartland Conference.

With more than a dozen education tracks to fill, conference organizers are looking for presenters to offer their expertise on a variety of topics including business leadership and management, retail, sleep and respiratory, rehab, operations, sales and marketing, home accessibility and regulatory to name a few.

Salvaging MACRA Implementation Through Medicare Advantage
Recently, Peter S. Hussey and colleagues considered the effects of MACRA on Medicare spending and use and how the effects might differ under various scenarios. (John O’Shea/Health Affairs Blog)

ATLANTA (October 20, 2017)—The rumor is true. Show organizers are concluding this year’s Medtrade with a $5,000 cash giveaway. Qualifying to receive the prize is fairly easy.

To enter the cash giveaway drawing, attendees will receive cash giveaway cards at registration, along with their badges. Attendees must take their cards to the booths of 10 sponsors and get the cards stamped at each sponsor’s booth. The list of sponsors will be shown on the cards.

ATLANTA (October 19, 2017)—Brightree LLC, a leading provider of cloud-based software to improve business and clinical performance of post-acute care organizations, announced the launch of Brightree ConnectPRO, a powerful resupply management program that combines all of its technology, services and data analytics into one time-saving solution.

Brightree ConnectPRO includes:

BOSTON (October 18, 2017)—Orbita, Inc. announced a major upgrade to its Orbita Voice platform that enables health care organizations and service providers to create and maintain powerful applications for voice-assistants and conversational AI platforms such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. This latest version of Orbita Voice adds important new features to accelerate development and streamline maintenance of voice-first, enterprise health care applications, including: