Let me start out by saying (writing?): The competitive bidding program, as it stands now, is a mess. No one in the industry disputes that (if there is, I haven’t heard from them).
It always catches me by surprise when I am reading an article in a mainstream magazine (in other words, pretty much anything but my de riguer copy of HME News) and I happen upon a story featuring someone I've interviewed for HME News.
There seemed to be quite a bit of healthcare-related buzz coming out of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This gigantic and glitzy show was more about technological advancements in TVs, computers and smart phones, of course, but it also included a Digital Health Summit on Jan.
Since it's January, let's have a look at the top Mobility stories from the past year.
I guess it's no surprise that HME News readers again kept their eyes on The Scooter Store as the industry's biggest mobility provider experienced a year of flux.
This year, encouraged (dare I say, excited, even?) by Diabetes Forecast mag's annual product update, I decided to download an app, the GlucoseBuddy, so that I could log numbers and track patterns (when you have diabetes, it's all about the patterns).
I seem to be sandwiched between the two versions of 90210. It was the kid-generation before mine that watched the show’s first run in the ‘90s. To put this in perspective, at the time, I was watching Hey Arnold and Clarissa Explains It All – definitely more PG than PG-13.
Below is a letter to the editor that I received from West Coast provider Dennis Kline. While there are more than a few providers exiting the HME industry these days, they usually go quietly, by closing their doors without fanfare or by selling to a larger provider. But not Kline.
I don’t know how many of you were able to tune in to yesterday’s Electronic Clinical Template Open Door Forum, but here's my take: I’d have to say it was kind of a mixed bag.
I really want to write about some news in this blog, but I don’t want to blow the cover on two stories that will appear in the HME Newswire on Dec. 24 and Dec. 31. So I shall not name names, though some of you will surely know whom I’m writing about.
