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Reporter’s Notebook: Ingenuity Meets Workability at RESNA’s 2025 Conference at RehabWeek
Assistive technology of all kinds were the focus of the Chicago meeting.

CHICAGO — For the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America’s (RESNA) 2025 conference, it would be hard to imagine a more beautiful location than the city’s Riverwalk, where the Chicago River meets Lake Michigan. For the May 12-16 conference at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, RESNA members had company. The meeting was…

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Briefly: United Spinal Launches Health Access Group; Travel Insurance Company Names Best, Worst Airlines for Handling Wheelchairs
Featuring United Spinal Association and InsureMyTrip.

United Spinal Launches Health Access Working Group United Spinal Association is seeking members for its new Health Access Working Group, created to “advocate for improving access to health-care services for the disability community.” Members will work together “to identify health-care accessibility problems, key obstacles and societal barriers that prevent people with disabilities access to the…

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Take Mobility Management’s Survey on Pediatric Seating, Wheeled Mobility
The survey is open to clinicians, ATPs, and other seating and wheeled mobility professionals and service providers.

Mobility Management is seeking Complex Rehab Technology (CRT) professionals to participate in a new survey on pediatric seating and wheeled mobility. Seating clinicians, Assistive Technology Professionals, rehab technology suppliers, rehabilitation engineers, seating and wheeled mobility professionals working for manufacturers or service providers, industry/association advocates, funding/policy specialists, and seating and wheeled mobility technicians are eligible to…

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New CMMI Paper Lists Three ‘Strategic Pillars’ to Guide Medicare, Medicaid Strategies
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Director Abe Sutton published the paper on May 13.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI/Innovation Center) has revealed three pillars that will guide Medicare and Medicaid strategies as part of President Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) mandate. Abe Sutton, CMMI director and deputy administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), authored the paper, “CMS Innovation Center Strategy…

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Reporter’s Notebook: Ingenuity Meets Workability at RESNA’s 2025 Conference at RehabWeek
Assistive technology of all kinds were the focus of the Chicago meeting.

CHICAGO — For the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America’s (RESNA) 2025 conference, it would be hard to imagine a more beautiful location than the city’s Riverwalk, where the Chicago River meets Lake Michigan. For the May 12-16 conference at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, RESNA members had company. The meeting was…

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Chuck Witkowski to Become CEO of Permobil on July 1
Witkowski succeeds Bengt Thorsson, the manufacturer's CEO for the last seven years.

Chuck Witkowski, president of Permobil Americas, has been named the new CEO of Permobil effective July 1. Permobil’s board of directors chose Witkowski to succeed Bengt Thorsson, who has been CEO for the last seven years. Witkowski, the manufacturer said in a May 20 announcement, “has been leading Permobil’s operations and expansion in North America…

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Colours Wheelchair Announces ‘Soft Opening’ Plans After February Pause
The ultralightweight wheelchair manufacturer resumed processing orders and working with providers and customers.

Colours Wheelchair, manufacturer of ultralightweight wheelchairs for adults and children, has announced a “soft opening” after pausing operations in February. In a May 14 social media post, Colours said it would “begin to take quote request[s]” and would resume processing orders and providing services to its providers and customers on May 14. Because phones are…

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United Spinal Reacts to Proposed Medicaid Cuts, Urges Stakeholders to Act
The Congressional Budget Office said the so-called “one big, beautiful bill” would cut $715 billion from Medicaid over the next 10 years.

United Spinal Association is urging stakeholders to act swiftly to prevent sweeping Medicaid cuts that are part of the Trump administration’s so-called “one big, beautiful bill” that advanced out of the budget committee on Sunday night, May 18, according to a report from PBS. The association said in a May 16 bulletin that the bill…

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Sunrise Medical Announces New Colors for Manual Wheelchairs, JAY Backs
The new palette launched May 12; discontinued colors will continue to be available for spare parts for five years.

Sunrise Medical has updated its color choices for QUICKIE adult manual wheelchairs, ZIPPIE pediatric manual wheelchairs, and JAY backs. The new palette will be available across the manufacturer’s North American, European, and Asia-Pacific markets, Sunrise Medical said in a May 12 announcement. In introducing the set of 24 color/pattern options, the company said it is…

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New NIH, CMS Partnership Aims to Build ‘Data Platform’ for Research on Chronic Conditions
Despite assurances that patient privacy will be protected, some health-care stakeholders are wary about data sharing.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are partnering on a “real-world data platform enabling advanced research across claims data, electronic medical records, and consumer wearables,” the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) said in a May 7 press release. “We’re using this partnership to uncover…

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MaRS, Toyota Mobility Foundation Call for Startups to Join Mobility Unlimited Hub in Toronto
The program provides funding, technical and marketing support to cohort members.

MaRS (Medical and Related Sciences), which describes itself as North America’s largest urban innovation hub, is partnering with the Toyota Mobility Foundation to launch an open call for startups to join the second cohort of the Mobility Unlimited Hub in Toronto. “Ten applicants will be selected to participate in the hub, which has become a…

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