How to Automate LymphaTech

Lymphedema is managed by measuring the same limb again and again

LymphaTech is a handheld 3D scanner and the software that reads it, built for one clinical question: is this limb bigger this month than it was last month. Tactile Medical acquired the company in February 2026.

Lymphedema is not cured. It is managed, and management is measurement. A scan of an arm or a leg produces a volume and a set of circumferences, and the software matches segments and landmarks the same way on every later scan, so today's numbers line up against the baseline rather than against a tape measure held differently by a different therapist.

The same measurements do a second job. Compression garments are made to a set of numbers, traditionally taken by hand with a tape. LymphaTech takes them from the scan and passes them into the garment order instead. Physical and occupational therapy departments, oncology rehab, hospitals, and the manufacturers and fitters who make the garments all use it.

The measurement is the quick part of the appointment

Taking the numbers is a fraction of the visit. Everything the numbers set in motion takes weeks, and none of that is in the scanner.

A garment has to be paid for, which means checking whether the patient's plan covers compression at all and, often, getting a prior authorisation out of a payer's portal. Then it has to be made, which means an order placed with a manufacturer and a wait, tracked through confirmation emails landing in a shared inbox. Then it has to fit.

Around that sits the follow-up. A garment has a working life of a few months before it stops providing the compression it was sold as, and somebody is meant to notice. A patient who came weekly for manual lymph drainage stops coming and nobody spots the gap. A limb stable for a year quietly is not, and the scan that would show it is booked for a date nobody has set.

So the therapist's admin time goes on portals, an inbox and a spreadsheet, in a clinic where the treatment is hands-on and the diary is full.

LymphaTech

Volume changes flagged the same week Each new scan compared against that patient's own baseline, with anything past your threshold named to the treating therapist.

Garment orders followed to the door Authorisation status and vendor shipping confirmations matched to the order, so nobody is booked to be fitted for a garment still in production.

Reorders and rescans surfaced early Garments near the end of their useful life and patients due a repeat scan, listed with the message already drafted.

A scan proves the limb changed and stops there

What LymphaTech does, it does precisely, and the precision is the reason to use it.

One pass produces volume and circumference measurements for a limb. The algorithms identify and match the same landmarks and segments across consecutive scans, which is what makes a comparison over months meaningful rather than merely suggestive. Automated reporting turns the result into a document that can be printed or exported and attached to the patient record. The measurement feeds garment ordering directly, with a connection into the manufacturers' own ordering platforms.

That is a measurement and documentation platform, and it is honest about being one. It is not the clinic's scheduler, it is not the payer, and it is not the manufacturer's order desk.

So the ceiling is everything that happens between two appointments. Whether the authorisation came back. Whether the order shipped. Whether the patient's coverage still exists. Whether anyone booked the next scan. Those answers live on a payer's portal, in a vendor's confirmation email and in the clinic's own calendar, and none of them arrives on its own.

The limb that changed gets acted on the week it changes

Measure that precisely and the next question is what happens to the number, which is where most of the value has been sitting unused.

Every new scan compared against that patient's own baseline, with any limb that has moved past your threshold flagged to the treating therapist that week, rather than at whatever visit somebody happens to scroll back through the history.

Garment prior authorisations tracked on the payer's own portal against the order they belong to, so a garment is ordered against an approval that exists. Coverage checked for new patients before the first fitting rather than after it. Vendor shipping confirmations matched to the order, so a patient is not called in to be fitted for a garment that has not left the factory.

Patients whose garments are near the end of their useful life, listed with a reorder note already drafted. Poor-fit garments turned into a corrected remake order built from the latest scan. Patients due a repeat scan found. Patients who quietly stopped coming for drainage surfaced while a warm message is still all it takes.

Nothing bends here: a therapist acts on these numbers. The gathering and the comparing run unattended. Anything that changes a record, places an order or reaches a patient waits for a qualified person.

The follow-up runs itself between the appointments

All of that is chasing rather than treating, and it lands in the gaps between patients, so it gets done unevenly or not at all.

WebRun is an AI agent that drives a real Chrome browser, signed in as your clinic signs in. It opens LymphaTech, the payer's portal, the garment manufacturer's ordering site and your own inbox and calendar, reads what each holds, and brings back the volume alerts, the authorisation list or the reorder queue already assembled.

It runs on your schedule inside your own private environment, a workflow can be restricted to a named list of domains, and sessions are not shared between the sites it touches.

The workflows below are already built, and each one names what it opens and what it leaves for you.