[September 25, 2014]

Brightree Delivers New Mobile Point of Delivery Solution with Apacheta

Brightree^®, the leading provider of cloud-based clinical, business management and billing software solutions for the post-acute care industry, announced today a strategic agreement with Apacheta Corporation, a provider of mobile workforce management solutions that streamline field force operations. The agreement will enable home medical equipment (HME) providers to deploy tablet-based wireless mobile workforce technology with direct integration to Brightree to reduce costs, eliminate paper, optimize productivity and accelerate time to revenue for medical claims. The integrated solution will provide native support for smartphones, tablets and rugged devices with Android™, Apple (News - Alert)® iOS and Windows® Mobile operating systems.

"Creating point of delivery efficiencies addresses one of the largest cost components of patient care for HME providers," said Steve Rogers, vice president product management at Brightree. "As reduced reimbursement rates continue to put pressure on providers, this integrated solution chips away at increasing costs by removing manual processes, eliminating duplicate data entry and automatically processing documents through a paperless workflow."

According to Don Grust, CEO at Apacheta, "Today's HME providers need to transform their logistics operations to stay competitive and profitable. Apacheta's mobile wokforce management solution helps HME providers realize best practices in logistics management and integrates seamlessly with Brightree to accelerate time to revenue."

How it works

The integrated, cloud-based mobile delivery solution enables providers to create electronic orders in Brightree and schedule and track those deliveries using Apacheta's dispatch system. These orders are immediately sent to a technician carrying Apacheta's tablet-based application. At the point of delivery, the technician walks through a series of mobile forms and captures the patient's signature electronically, making the order immediately available in Brightree for claim processing-accelerating time to reimbursement and eliminating staff time required for data entry. The integrated solution supports automated delivery notifications, exception management, offline synchronization, map-based driver and delivery tracking in real-time, key delivery metrics reports as well as custom forms based on provider-specific needs. Delivery tickets and other provider-specific forms, such as required documentation, can be automatically uploaded and stored into Brightree Document Management for providers using both systems.

The solution will be generally available to HME providers in early 2015. For more information regarding the integrated mobile delivery solution, please contact Brightree at [email protected].

Brightree will be exhibiting its application solutions in Booth #2245 at the Medtrade Fall Conference on October 20-23 in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Ga.

About Apacheta Corporation

Apacheta Corporation provides mobile workforce management solutions that bring best-practice workflows to transportation, medical, consumer packaged goods, and field service businesses. Apacheta solutions improve customer satisfaction, reduce costs, and increase revenue with next-generation mobile applications that run on Android (News - Alert), iOS and Windows Mobile devices and streamline delivery, sales, and service operations. Apacheta software is the foundation for mission-critical mobile applications for Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Bimbo Bakeries USA, G&K Services, United Rentals and many others. For more information, visit www.apacheta.com.

About Brightree

Brightree is the leading provider of cloud-based software to improve clinical and business performance in the post-acute care industry. The Company serves more than 3,000 organizations in the home medical equipment (HME), home health, hospice, orthotic and prosthetic (O&P), HME pharmacy, home infusion and rehab home care segments. Brightree's solutions follow the natural workflow of providers to automate and improve how they manage their businesses, serve patients, and protect reimbursements. The company is ranked as one of the top 100 healthcare IT companies in the U.S. on the prestigious Healthcare Informatics (News - Alert) 100 (HCI 100) list. For further information, visit www.brightree.com or call 1-844-GET-BTRE (438-2783)

Brightree is registered trademark of Brightree LLC.

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