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                                        The Right Tools for the Job
 Providers face a number of challenges, and fortunately a broad range of technology tools have been developed to help them tackle those tasks.
 BHy David Kopf
aving the right tool for the job can make all the difference. Sure, you might be able to bodge a  x using something else, but nothing works better than a solution that’s been tailored speci cally for the problem at hand.
For HME businesses, software has become their primary tool for tackling the multiplicity of marketplace, billing and regulatory challenges they face. But it has evolved to offer a variety of very unique, nuanced solutions.
For starters, there are the broad HME management systems that help providers manage the entirety of their businesses. These systems offer everything from billing and claims management to advanced reporting tools to retail point of sales solutions to inventory management in hopes of giving providers a complete business management system. And those systems keep adding features to ensure their users can respond to industry changes.
And there are highly speci c software tools designed to help providers deal with particular problems. There are task-speci c tools for provider management challenges such as optimizing deliveries, inventory operations, document imaging, responding to audits or managing the sales team.
To help you stay on top of the various tools available to help you ensure your business always has just the right solution, we’re once again publishing
our annual software roundup. And like last year, we have expanded that roundup to include not just the large HME management offerings, but the various specialized tools and systems to help providers deal with speci c challenges.
This year, we’ve collected information on systems in these categories: • HME Management Systems
• Accounts Receivable
• Audits
• Billing/Claims
• Business Analytics
• Delivery Management/Route Planning
• Document Imaging/Management
• E-Commerce/Digital Marketing
• Inventory Management/Asset Tracking
• Sales Management
Take a look at this year’s listings, and learn more about the variety of software systems that are available to help your business adapt to an ever- changing healthcare and funding environment. You just might  nd some- thing you’ll want to add to your toolbox:
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