Parachute Health White Paper Calls for Industry-wide Collaboration to Build a More Connected HME Ecosystem

New White Paper Outlines How Transparent Digital Infrastructure Can Support HME Growth, Reduce Administrative Burdens and Improve Quality

NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Parachute Health, the technology platform connecting clinicians, HME providers and health plans across the home medical equipment (HME) ecosystem, today released a white paper outlining how greater collaboration can help organizations overcome fragmented systems, reduce administrative complexity and improve the delivery of patient care.

In "A Vision for a More Connected Future of HME," Parachute examines the growing need to modernize healthcare infrastructure as rising demand, mounting cost pressures and advances in digital technology reshape the industry. With more than 61 million Americans age 65 or older and the growing U.S. home durable medical equipment market, the paper highlights an industry poised to grow in both size and importance to the U.S. healthcare system, creating greater urgency for more efficient, coordinated processes.

Despite growing investment in healthcare technology, HME orders still move across disconnected systems and organizations, requiring clinicians, HME providers and health plans to rely on manual follow-up and repeated documentation. The paper argues that modernizing HME requires more than automating existing, disconnected workflows. It calls for a more connected, transparent infrastructure that enables information to move across organizations and supports greater collaboration throughout the HME transaction.

"The healthcare industry has spent years working toward greater interoperability, but HME remains one of the areas where disconnected workflows create unnecessary complexity," said David Gelbard, founder and CEO of Parachute Health. "We're at a point where technology can do much more than automate faxes and phone calls. It can help clinicians, HME providers and health plans work from better information, reduce administrative friction and make quality a more meaningful part of how the industry operates."

Parachute outlines an industrywide approach centered on three priorities:

• Connect the full HME transaction: Move beyond standalone digital ordering tools to improve coordination across prescription, HME provider intake, authorization, fulfillment and ongoing health plans communication.
• Make quality and performance more visible: Give clinicians, HME providers and health plans better information to understand order status, identify bottlenecks and recognize HME provider performance beyond price alone.
• Build infrastructure that supports collaboration: Enable information to move across organizations while preserving each participant's responsibility for clinical decisions, fulfillment, coverage and network management.

By connecting these workflows, clinicians gain simplified discharge processes, HME providers receive clean orders upfront with faster reimbursement, health plans gain earlier visibility into utilization, and patients experience fewer delays receiving critical care at home.

Parachute Health continues to expand its digital network, which connects more than 300,000 clinicians and 3,000 HME provider locations nationwide, with health plans increasingly participating in the ecosystem. As its network evolves, Parachute is working to connect information and workflows across the HME transaction, bringing clinicians, HME providers and health plans together through shared digital infrastructure. The white paper emphasizes that meaningful industry transformation will require continued collaboration across the ecosystem.

The full white paper, "A Vision for a More Connected Future of HME," is available for download at www.parachutehealth.com/connected-future-of-hme/.

About Parachute Health
Parachute Health connects clinicians, HME providers and health plans through a single digital network that makes it easier to get people the home medical equipment and care they need. Connecting more than 300,000 clinicians and 3,000 HME HME provider locations, Parachute brings together the people, information and workflows required so patients can live healthier lives at home. Parachute helps automate complex work, reduce administrative burden and create greater visibility and trust across the HME ecosystem by combining AI with the context and connections across its network. To learn more, visit Parachute Health at parachutehealth.com and LinkedIn.

Jared Wasserman
Parachute Health
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.parachutehealth.com

SOURCE Parachute Health