Since 1964, Brownmed has been a leader in manufacturing products designed to make recovery more comfortable.

From the introduction of Plastalume, the world’s first foam-aluminum finger splint, more than 60 years ago, Brownmed has manufactured quality, innovative medical products that make recovery more comfortable. Through consistent innovation, Brownmed has brought new brands and categories of products to market with one goal in mind: making recovery more comfortable.

Making Recovery More Comfortable

Brownmed’s patient-centered design process focuses on creating products that are effective, easy to use and comfortable to wear. The result is a higher quality product, improved patient compliance and increased overall product efficacy.

From established brands like Seal-Tight cast protectors, which are made in the United States and feature a category-leading guarantee, to IMAK Compression, with seven products commended for their ease of use by the Arthritis Foundation and designed for all-day comfort, Brownmed offers solutions for every stage of recovery. Its innovative lineup also includes more recent additions like Intellinetix Wearable Vibration Therapy, Spark Kinesiology Sleeves and the stretch-to-fit Joslin Arm Slings are all designed to make recovery from acute injury, a chronic condition or even a tough workout more comfortable.

Brownmed’s newest innovation is in Hot/Cold Therapy. Available this August, its Polar Ice Hot/Cold Relief Cap and Polar Ice Hot/Cold Sleeve provide therapeutic relief and relaxation from mild stress, chronic pain and acute injury.

Brownmed invites you to learn more at brownmed.com.

Outcome-Proving Advantage

In today’s shifting health care landscape, success for durable medical equipment (DME) and home medical equipment (HME) providers aren’t just about delivering equipment—it’s about delivering outcomes. With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s (CMS’s) finalized National Coverage Determination (NCD) for noninvasive ventilation (NIV) now in effect, providers across the country are scrambling to make sense of the new requirements, manage clinical complexity and adapt operational workflows. For many, it feels like the rules have changed overnight.

Encore Healthcare is here to help turn that challenge into a golden opportunity.

Since 2015, Encore Healthcare has been a national leader in respiratory management, serving HME providers with clinical tools, strategic guidance and outcomes-focused solutions that drive both patient care and business growth. At the heart of this transformation is Nexus, Encore’s proprietary respiratory management platform designed to help DMEs thrive in a world where proven outcomes are no longer optional—they’re expected.

Nexus

Nexus is more than just a software—it’s a clinical engine built specifically for respiratory therapists and HME providers. It centralizes all respiratory device data, automates critical documentation and provides real-time visibility into key outcomes like hospital readmissions, hours of use, patient adherence and more.

With seamless integrations to devices from major ventilator manufacturers—including React Health, Movair, Phillips and Breas Medical—Nexus empowers providers with connected care and automated reporting. When a DME provider adopts Nexus, they’re not just collecting data—they’re turning data into decisions, and decisions into outcomes.

Nexus customers have shown an ability to extend the average length of service from the industry baseline of eight to nine months to more than 20 months—a 2.5x increase. That’s not just good for patients—it’s good for business. For every 100 vent patients, Nexus users are seeing $1.3 million in new revenue (as a result of the drastically extended length of service), while simultaneously reducing hospitalizations and boosting quality of care.

Vent360

But Nexus is only part of the equation. For DMEs who are short-staffed, stretched thin or unsure how to implement high-acuity respiratory care at scale, Encore also offers its flagship telerespiratory services—Vent360.

Vent360 is a turnkey program that combines Encore’s Nexus patient management platform with respiratory therapist-led telerespiratory support. In a post-NCD world where documentation, therapy settings and re-evaluation windows must be met with precision, Vent360 provides the software and staffing needed to help DME providers stay fully compliant—“NCD Ready at the Flip of a Switch.”

Pioneered Door Automation

Open Sesame Door Systems are not only the most reliable and safest on the market, but attentiveness to the clientele truly sets this company apart. What began as a personal project to help a friend in a power wheelchair led to the invention of the first-ever residential, automatic door opener and a company committed to making a difference. Since 1991, Open Sesame has pioneered door automation for people with mobility challenges, offering reliable and tailor-built systems for residential and light-commercial applications.

For nearly 40 years, the company has produced the easiest-to-install door opener system on the market and built a reputation as the most trusted team in the industry. Safety, convenience and reliability are essential in any door automation system. These cornerstones are fundamental to Open Sesame’s design. Its system excels beyond others for many reasons, including its seamless integration with existing architecture and free-swinging design. An often-overlooked aspect of a good residential automatic door opener is preserving manual operation.

Made to Handle It All

Open Sesame is unique in the market due to its uninhibited, free-swinging motion when not in use. No fighting against a motor and gears to manually open the door! While convenient, this is actually critical to safe operation. Additional safety features include adjustable obstruction detection sensitivity and a dedicated long-life battery backup for when the power goes out. Together, these core attributes enhance safety while ensuring users can always open their door.

Open Sesame knows that every doorway—and every person—is unique. From the intricacy of double French doors to the demands of light-duty commercial doors and even weatherproofed outdoor gates or storm doors, the Open Sesame system is made to handle it all. To further customize the user experience, it offers over a dozen remote-control options, making it easy to match the ideal solution to the user’s specific needs. From handheld remotes, wall-mounted push-pads and coded key-pads, to Alexa voice-control integration or even proximity-activated tags—Open Sesame has adaptable activation options for any need.

Heart of the Mission

The first Open Sesame unit was created for owners Jon and Charles’ friend Kathi. Her story remains at the heart of their mission. Her first official door-opener was installed in 1990 and stands as a testament to the durability and thoughtful engineering from Open Sesame. Open Sesame understands how critical a reliable door access solution is to a person’s independence and quality of life.

As the demand for homecare and home health care services increases, so does the homecare and home health care industry’s need for professional liability protection. From patient falls that occur on a home health care provider’s watch to auto accidents that occur while a homecare provider is transporting a patient to appointments, there are numerous scenarios that put homecare and home health care agencies at risk from a liability perspective.

Serving the Home Health Industry

Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY) is a leading insurer of homecare and home health care agencies. With more than 20 years of experience providing insurance to the industry, PHLY offers specialized claims-handling expertise, allowing PHLY to deliver the best possible service to homecare and home health care organizations in their times of need. PHLY’s policyholders can find a wealth of risk management resources to help them prepare for and prevent common liability issues. Customers have access to resources for homecare and home health care-specific concerns, such as patient falls, patient transfers, patient scaldings or wheelchair securement.

For auto liability concerns, PHLY offers interactive training courses on distracted driving and defensive driving, bulletins addressing common auto hazards, and access to a “how’s my driving” program. In addition, PHLY has partnerships with best-in-class vendors to offer employee background checks, motor vehicle record checks and abuse prevention training to policyholders, either free of charge or at a discount.

Specialized Coverages

Homecare and home health care agencies will find specialized coverages offered by PHLY, including commercial general liability, professional liability and umbrella liability. PHLY provides separate limits of liability for each line of coverage, while many competing home health insurers only offer a single limit of liability, which could be a financial burden to policyholders at the time of loss.

A Partner in Respiratory Care From Hospital to Home

Sentec is a global leader in non-invasive monitoring and respiratory therapy solutions, and a committed partner to durable medical equipment (DME) providers. Since 1999, Sentec has supported clinicians across critical care, neonatal intensive care units and respiratory units with technologies designed to improve outcomes and streamline care.

Each Sentec intrapulmonary percussive ventilation (IPV) therapy treatment delivers high-flow bursts of air designed to mobilize secretions outward, open and recruit airways and enhance gas exchange, providing a unique combination of lung expansion and secretion clearance in a single therapy.

“IPV gives me the opportunity to customize therapy. It creates flexibility,” said Andrew Klein, MS, RRT, RUSH University Medical Center.

IPV therapy can:

• Help patients spend less time in the hospital
• Improve the daily life of people with COPD
• Remove more secretions than suctioning and assisted mucus clearance technique in people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
• Remove more secretions than a vest in people with cystic fibrosis
• Reduce hospitalization, respiratory infections and antibiotic use
• Enable proactive care at home

Sentec IPV Therapy at home is delivered with The Impulsator, designed for convenient use at home, enabling patients to benefit from ongoing airway clearance therapy and lung rehabilitation. It’s a self-contained device with a built-in compressor and easy-to-use interface.

Backed by Real Clinical Data

The advantage of using IPV therapy, a secretion clearance device developed by respiratory therapy pioneer Dr. Forrest Bird, is that it’s backed by decades of real-world use and clinical research.

“There’s no real clinical research on the other devices. Does IPV therapy actually remove mucus? The answer is a pretty resounding yes,” said Dr. Craig Swanson, medical director, Sutter Medical Center.

While newer, electronic secretion clearance devices are supported only by bench testing and simulation data, the performance of IPV therapy stands apart—it has been studied in real patients and shown to be safe and effective in leading peer-reviewed journals.

Unlocking Efficiency

Sentec has an established and growing network of hospital partners, which lets DME providers benefit from clinical familiarity and trust in its therapy.

When patients transition from acute to homecare, providers and patients often prefer to continue using the therapies they know. Continuity of care reduces the learning curve, streamlines onboarding and helps drive physician orders and adoption in the home setting.

For DME providers, it means fewer barriers to prescription, better alignment with hospital protocols, more consistent utilization across care settings—as well as happier patients at home.

Fueled and inspired by a passion and dedication for taking care of clients, TeamDME! provides superior software for superior care. Since 1988, TeamDME! has been perfecting its client care, developing a software solution driven by client and industry needs. This is what the company’s software and heritage are all about.

TeamDME! Provides All the Right Tools

Your software solution shouldn’t make running your business more difficult and take more people to run it. TeamDME! XL combines all the tools you need to manage and optimize your home medical equipment or durable medical equipment front and back-office functions.

• Cloud-based: Access your data from anywhere. TeamDME! worries about performance, security, backups and disaster recovery.
• Billing Features: The billing wizards make billing simple, fast and compliant. Easier billing makes your staff more productive.
• Monthly Billing Charts: Understand the rejections your staff are facing billing Medicare and other providers, and focus training on weaknesses.
• Mobile Delivery Tablet: Get electronic signatures and capture correct serial/lot numbers at the point of delivery.
• Online Payment Portal: Customers pay you faster when they can pay after hours with convenient options for check or credit card.
• Management Dashboard: Keep your finger on the pulse of your financials and which direction they are trending.
• Point-of-Sale: Cash drawer, pole display and scanner make any computer a cash register to speed your customer through the line. Accept credit cards at the register, by phone or online.
• Email Integration: Email forms to physicians and payers and reports to facilities, referral sources and coworkers.
• E-fax integration: Fax certificates of medical necessity or prescriptions to physicians, authorization forms to payers and more with a couple of clicks from your desktop.
• Security: Security is built into everything that TeamDME! does.