Tag: Pacware
Brightree buys CareAnyware
January 4, 2013HME News Staff
ATLANTA - Brightree has acquired CareAnyware, a Raleigh, N.C.-based home health and hospice software provider, according to a press release. As a result of the acquisition, Brightree will have a bigger presence in the post-acute care market at large, with 500 employees serving nearly 3,000 companies. David Cormack, president and CEO of Brightree, said the company plans to leverage CareAnyware's clinical expertise to develop new point-of-care and outcomes-tracking capabilities for HME providers....
Brightree does right by providers
July 26, 2011Liz Beaulieu, Editor
ATLANTA - Close to 200 of Pacware's 750 customers have committed to or are already in the process of converting to Brightree, company officials said in June.
"The acquisition's going well," said Brightree CEO Dave Cormack.
Brightree acquired Pacware earlier this year. It continues to support Pacware's client-server product, but it's also giving the company's customers the opportunity to convert to its web-based platform.
While software conversions make most providers cringe, Pacware's leader,...
Taking stock
July 26, 2011Liz Beaulieu, Editor
ATLANTA - Four months after software vendor Brightree bought Pacware, some HME providers are elated, some are distressed and some don't know what to think.
Provider David Baxter switched from Pacware to Brightree in October of 2009, just before the acquisition. He says Brightree's advanced reporting capabilities have helped him increase his collection rate from 85% to 96%, adding about $500,000 to his bottom line in the first year alone.
"Everybody's doing Excel spreadsheets to data mine, trying...