Tag: Chris Kinard
Tech Talks offers solutions, enables adoption
January 22, 2025Liz Beaulieu, Editor
DALLAS – Tech Talks at Medtrade next month will feature an expanded number of time slots, and, at press time, 12 of those were confirmed by the likes of Tennr, Parachute Health and Valere Health.
Tech Talks, an area carved out on the show floor for companies offering various tech solutions, debuted at Medtrade in 2024 and was a “great success,” says Chris Kinard, COO at Valere Health, its exclusive sponsor.
“It’s a trade show – the whole goal...
Idustry in 'the shakeout phase'
September 26, 2014John Andrews
Provider consolidation, a “shakeout” of companies serving the marketplace through mergers, acquisitions and closings, has been dramatically reducing the number of players in the HME industry.Yet this trend should not be viewed with alarm, but as a natural progression in a maturing business climate, says Chris Kinard, director of corporate systems development for Columbia, S.C.-based LifeHME.Kinard refers to The Consolidation Endgame Curve, a four-stage lifecycle that plots the entry,...