LAS VEGAS (March 9, 2018)—Advance registration rates for Medtrade Spring are in effect until Sunday, March 18, 2018. The spring version of the nation’s premiere HME trade show is scheduled for March 27–29, 2018, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.
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LAS VEGAS (March 8, 2018)—MobileHelp Healthcare, a provider of personal and enterprise health care technology solutions, recently collaborated with Samsung Electronics America to introduce MobileHelp Smart and expand its emergency response portfolio through integration of customized Samsung Gear S3 smartwatches.
An aging country can’t rely solely on families, friends and volunteers to provide everything dependent elders need, however well supported they are.
By Liz Carey
Dietary needs change with age and health condition.
In late January 2018, Dr. Mehrdad Ayati of Stanford University School of Medicine and board certified in family and geriatric medicine, spoke before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging about aging challenges.
STOUGHTON, Mass. (March 7, 2018)—Medical Specialties Distributors (MSD) announces they have been selected as the preferred distribution partner for Smiths Medical to serve non-hospital based infusion customers.
The MSD and Smiths Medical partnership unveils a new distribution model that simplifies the way providers order, receive and deliver care. CADD Infusion systems are available to non-hospital based infusion providers through a preferred distribution partnership with MSD.
Via CMS, WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 6, 2018)—Today, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma announced a new Trump Administration initiative—MyHealthEData—to empower patients by giving them control of their health care data, and allowing it to follow them through their health care journey.
AUSTIN, Texas (March 6, 2018)—Dozens of medical equipment suppliers in Texas rallied together to successfully prevent proposed reimbursement cuts by Superior HealthPlan. The cuts, which suppliers were notified of in a letter received in early February, would have been substantially lower than Texas state Medicaid, reducing rates for certain product categories from 85 percent of Texas Medicaid to 60 percent, with a few suppliers receiving a reduction to 65 to 70 percent.
