Lori Krukowski and Cathy Roberts know a good idea when they hear one. In 2004, Krukowski, general manager of Tunkhannock, Pa.-based Lech's Pharmacy, and

Murrysville, Pa. Harvard sleep professor David P. White has been named chief medical officer of Respironics. He will be responsible for leading the company's

Fraud and abuse. These two words represent to me everything that is wrong within our health care system. There are times when I get the impression that

Invacare Corp./Electric Bed IVC Full Electric Low Bed split spring for one-person delivery low bed design for situations where rails are not desirable

Las Vegas Sunrise Medical unveiled its new oxygen home filling system at Medtrade Spring. The DeVilbiss iFill Personal Oxygen Station extracts purified

I am often hired by suppliers who complain that their area hospitals are being unfair and favoring one HME company over all others. I am also hired by

The home care bed market is placing an increasing emphasis on fall prevention and patient safety. Mike Sedlak, product manager, beds, transitional support

Arcadia Resources, Southfield, Mich., has acquired the Florida operations of Regional Oxygen and Medical Equipment and Encore Respiratory. Both companies,

If you have been following your updates, you will have noticed that a lot of changes are in the works at the DMERCs (soon to become Medicare Administrative

I spent a weekend last month with my 84-year-old mother-in-law explaining the ins-and-outs of home health care. She had been bedridden, alone in her apartment,