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• How Does DMEscripts Solve Everyday Challenges for Healthcare Providers? Prescribing DMEPOS orders is the most prevalent and long-standing challenge within our HME industry. HME providers must assess how they engage ePrescribe.
• Growing Your DME Business: What is an Ostomy? Many times, we as DME businesses work with patients that have an ostomy and may not know exactly what it entails or the reason for the ostomy.
• VGM Wound Care: News at Your Fingertips VGM Wound Care publishes blog posts and articles on a regular basis to keep you informed on the latest in wound care. Here are the top three blogs published for wound care providers in 2022.
• Therapeutic Support Surfaces: Diving Into the Business of Group 3 Air Fluidized Beds If Group 3 air fluidized beds are so needed, why isn't anyone diving into the business? If you are providing wound care in your DME business, adding air fluidized therapy beds to your mix is a great way to help serve your patients as well as increase your revenue.
• CGMs and the Diabetic Market Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) continues to be a hot topic in the wound care space. In a podcast by Industry Matters, Wayne van Halem, president of The van Halem Group, and Joseph Ault, sales manager for GEMCO, discuss CGM audits, qualifications for reimbursement and documentation, as well as the opportunities in the diabetic market.
• Wound Care and Compression: The Basics Within the wound care space are many different types of compression that can be used to manage wounds. When looking at which type to use, it depends a great deal on the person's disease state. The disease state we see most is venous disease.
• Emerging Market Trend: Bariatrics Providers don't have to offer everything at once. They are likely already serving bariatric patients. Simply asking them about the areas they need assistance will determine the best starting point. From there, just keep listening to the patients and focus on serving their needs. That's where the opportunity is.
• Nutrition: One Factor that Aids in Positive Outcomes for Wound Healing In wound care, we look at many factors to move positive outcomes to the goal of patient healing. Some factors we cannot change, but some we can change, which can actually aid in wound healing. Nutrition is one of those factors.
• Wound Awareness on Moist Wound Environment When thinking about wound care awareness month, moist wound healing popped in my brain! Keeping a wound moist during the healing process is one of the most important aspects of wound healing.
• Heartland Conference Sneak Peek: Wound Care Best Practices Looking to expand your wound care business? Look no further than the wound care expert panel discussion at Heartland.
• Does VGM Have a Turnkey Program for Surgical Dressings? Yes We Do! Heather Trumm receives many questions from Home Medical Equipment providers (HMEs) on surgical dressings. She addresses some of the topics in today's blog.
• Profitability in Wound Care: Is it Possible? As we begin a new year, now is a great time to look into new business opportunities, and one to consider is wound care. If your business does not have a wound care offering, you may be leaving money on the table.
• The Vital Role Nutrition Plays in Wound Healing In today's episode of Industry Matters, Heather Trumm, director of VGM Wound Care, talks with Dr. Nancy Collins, a Registered Dietician about the role nutrition plays in wound healing.
• VGM Wound Care Launches New Diabetic Program Guide The guide includes directions on how to get a diabetes program started and how to develop your program.
• The Q2 Buyer's Guide is Available Now VGM & Associates is excited to announce that the second quarter Digital Buyer's Guide has been released. The latest edition can be downloaded now.
• Cost Effective Wound Care Management Practices Director of VGM Wound Care, Heather Trumm talks with vendor partner, Dermarite about cost effective wound management without compromising the value of the products.
• VGM Wound Care Launches New Program Guide The Wound Care Program Guide is your resource on how to determine if a wound care program is right for your business, how to get started, developing your program, and provides resources and contacts.
• The First Quarterly Buyer's Guide Is Available Now VGM & Associates has released a new resource for our members, our Quarterly Buyer's Guide.
• VGM Wound Care and Permobil Discuss the Importance of Seated Posture In this episode of industry matters Director of Wound Care, Heather Trumm, talks with Stacey Mullis, Director of Clinical Marketing at Permobil, where “Every person has the right to have his or her disability compensated as far as possible by aids with the same technical standard as those we all use in our daily lives.” Heather and Stacy are going to dive right into dive into something that is often overlooked, and that is seated posture in wound care.
• Discover Why All Providers Need to Know About Wound Care Listen in as we talk with Heather Trumm, Director of VGM Wound Care about the importance of all DMEPOS providers paying attention to wound care. Heather also covers new education materials available for VGM Members, and resources that can help you get started in wound care.