Home Care Tech Report

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Why Should You Advertise in Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report?

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Have your conference booth numbers publicized.

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Contact an advertising advisor today by writing to kristin@RowanResources.com
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Tech Buyer’s Guide

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What is The Technology Guide?
"The Healthcare at Home Guide to Technology Vendor Selection" is a free online service created by 25-year industry veteran Tim Rowan. It helps home care and hospice providers compare their specific needs with the offerings of 100+ technology vendors.
What Does The Guide Do?
  • Describes 100+ home care & hospice technology companies.
  • Matches product functions to your needs.
  • You will be far more likely to contract with the right vendor for you.
  • Sends an RFP via email to the vendors you want to contact. (nominal fee)

Plus...


  • Complete descriptions of participating vendors, with contact information and links to web sites.
  • Valuable articles on the vendor selection process.
  • PowerPoint presentations from leading home care technology experts.
How to Use: Home Care and Hospice Providers

Find the perfect technology partner in 4 simple steps:


  1. Create an agency profile.
  2. Search by category: EHR, Telehealth, Telephony, OASIS Analysis, Clinicians' Tools, Education, CRM, more...
  3. Name your feature/function requirements and instantly see a list of vendors that match your needs.
  4. Click on each vendor's name to research company and products before contacting them.
How to Use: Tech Companies

Every home care and hospice EHR, Home Telehealth, EVV, and Data Analysis Software company should be listed in The Healthcare at Home Buyer's Guide.


  1. Contact us
  2. Complete the questionnaire we send you.
  3. Choose your participation level. (Basic listing is free; higher levels offer greater prominence.)
  4. Sit back and wait for your phone to ring. Participating vendors receive qualified leads by email every time a Guide user identifies them as having the products they need.
Contact “The Guide”

We have made every effort to make The Healthcare at Home Guide to Technology Vendor Selection easy to use and self-explanatory but if you need help, have a question about your membership, or if you are a vendor wanting to be added to our list, contact us at: guide@rowanresources.com

About Rowan Consulting

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Serving Home Care and Hospice Providers Since 1993

This web site is your portal to all of the services we offer to the home care community.
Click on the titles below, on the left and on the right to find:
  • Home Care's most-respected technology journal
  • Expert IT consulting services
  • Our free online technology buyer's guide
  • Online education for clinicians and administrators
  • Important upcoming conferences
  • An affordable tool to enhance your online reputation and build your census
  • A Healthcare at Home jobs board
Consulting Services

Since 1999, Rowan Consulting Associates has helped dozens of home care agencies and hospices improve outcomes and efficiency through carefully guided technology selection.
  • Financial/Clinical Software Selection
  • Home Telehealth Vendor Selection
  • Agency Startup Assistance
  • Operations and Process Design
Our consulting team includes experienced Home Care and Hospice clinicians and former agency owners, CIOs and reimbursement experts.


CLICK HERE FOR CONTACT AND OTHER INFORMATION
Conference Presentations

State Association Meetings
Vendor User Group Meetings
Vendor Sales Staff Trainings
Agency Retreats and In-Service Seminars

 Tim Rowan consistently earns evaluation comments naming him the "best presentation of this conference," "entertaining and engaging" and "a wealth of useful information." Call early, Tim's spring and fall schedules fill quickly.

DETAILS, FEES AND CONTACT INFORMATION

 
Discreet Investment Inquiries

Investors and fund managers often ask our assistance in identifying successful, growing software companies for discreet, off-the-record discussions. We help such parties find each other.
Contact Tim

To discuss any of the above services, write to us directly or simply pick up the phone. Office hours are 8:00 - 6:00 Mountain Time.

719-573-5090
tim@rowanresources.com

Homecare Conferences

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National Associations

The Association for Home Health Quality and Innovation
http://www.ahhqi.org

National Association for Home Care & Hospice
http://www.nahc.org

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
http://www.nhpco.org/mlc2016-0

Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare
http://www.homehealth4america.org/

Visiting Nurse Associations of America
http://www.vnaa.org/

Tim Rowan Seminars

Once per year, in the spring or fall, we call the industry's top consultants together to share their knowledge and forecasts with Healthcare at Home provider executives. Keep watching this space for announcements of the next in our series of "Healthcare in Transition" seminars.
Join Our Mailing List

Do not miss our next "Healthcare in Transition" seminar. Click here to be notified of our next dates, venue and speaker lineup.

Why Healthcare in Transition
Seminars are Special

No other conference offers you these benefits:


  • One room, all keynote sessions and all exhibit tables are together all day, every day
  • 2-minute commercial: Tim interview every exhibitor on Day One while attendees are present. Briefly tell your story and every attendee will hear it and be driven to your booth.
  • Breakfast and lunch and all breaks keep people in the exhibit hall.
  • Tuesday night dinner gala gives you ample time to socialize with, even dance with, prospective clients.
  • Option to place your logo on hotel key cards, water bottles, name badges, and meals and breaks.
  • Sponsors receive free passes to distribute to customers, a $399 value per pass.
  • All Exhibitors receive a discount coupon code to distribute to customers, a $100 value per attendee.

Contact event coordinator Kristin Girard at kristin@RowanResources.com to request your exhibitor/sponsor prospectus.

Upcoming Events
Open this box to see our calendar of events

2018 National Leadership Conference

Home Care Association of America

September 22-25
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington DC

Information for Providers and Exhibitors



MHHA Annual Conference

Michigan Home Care & Hospice Association
April 25-26
Amway Grand Plaza
Grand Rapids
Information and Registration



New England Home Care and Hospice 2018 Conference
Presented by Home Care Associations of:
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont

April 25-27
Cliff House Maine Hotel
Cape Neddick

Information and Registration



2018 Annual Conference

AHHC of North Carolina

May 7-9
Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center

Register



Reputation Resources

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Rowan Reputation Resources

Rowan Consulting Associates helps Healthcare at Home providers support their sales and marketing efforts — the ones where you say positive things about yourself — by introducing "Inverse Marketing" practices — the ones where you get your patients and clients to say positive things about you online. Why? Because this is where most people are doing their shopping today.

REVERE and REVERB are the two components of our Inverse Marketing system, which enhances your reputation and helps you compete. Continue reading in the boxes below for descriptions of both services. Reputation Management using Inverse Marketing is a new concept in marketing and Rowan Reputation Resources is leading the way. To contact us for more information and begin your marketing transformation, click here.

What is Reputation Management?

When we learned that 88% of people look you up on Google, Yelp, or other review sites before they call you up, we decided to develop a tool to help you rise to the top of these search sites. To grow your census, you need search engine prominence. To gain search engine prominence, you need:

  • More reviews than your competitors
  • More positive than negative reviews
  • More recent reviews
Reputation Management is knowing what your customers are saying about you online, engaging the unhappy customers, and asking the happy ones to put their positive comments on the right review sites. This would be a time consuming task if you had to do it manually. Our tool makes it simple. You will dominate all the review sites and your census will immediately start to grow.

Our new service, which we have dubbed Rowan Reputation Resources, can help you find and address negative reviews and solicit positive reviews from patients. Our monthly fee is a fraction of what it would cost to assign an FTE or two to this task. Write to us for more information or to sign up for our Reputation Management Service. Drive your company to the top!
About "Home Care Reviews"

Improving CAHPS Response Rates: 2 Free Webinars

Sponsored by HEALTHCAREfirst
Featuring: Liz Silva, Director of Home Health & Hospice, HEALTHCAREfirst

Hospice CAHPS: Wednesday, May 2
2:00 pm EDT
Free Registration

Home Health HHCAHPS: Thursday, May 10
2:00 pm EDT
Free Registration

With greater visibility into quality through public reporting on Hospice Compare and Home Health Compare, hospice and home health providers have an even greater incentive for performance improvement. During each 45-minute webinar, we will discuss methods and activities that have been instrumental in improving CAHPS survey response rates, a key element of implementing a data-driven approach and improving your scores. To be discussed:

  • Hospice CAHPS Regulations
  • Response Rate Calculation
  • Available Benchmarks
  • Effective Strategies to Improve Response Rates

 

Good Ways to Break Bad News: Social Worker Edition

Presented by Curaport
Featuring: Heather Calhoun, RN, BSN, COS-C, HSC-D

Date: Tuesday, May 1 
Time: 2:00 p.m. EDT

Fee: $79
Information & Registration

*This education session is pending approval from the National Association of Social Workers for one (1) contact hour of Continuing Education for Social Workers.

 

 

 

Clinical Impact of OASIS-D

Presented by HEALTHCAREfirst

Featuring:
Deanna Loftus, HEALTHCAREfirst Director of Regulatory Compliance
Mary St. Pierre, RN, BSN, MGA, Regulatory Consultant

Tuesday, May 1
2:00 pm EDT

Free Registration

In March 2018, CMS released the draft of the latest version of the OASIS data set, OASIS-D. Modifications are being made to OASIS in order to comply with the IMPACT Act, to reduce data collection burden, and to improve formatting throughout the document. CMS is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget for a January 1, 2019 implementation date. Topics:

  • Addition of six new standardized items
  • The removal of 28 OASIS questions that will no longer be assessed.
  • Modification to M1311 to support a new standardized pressure ulcer measure.
  • Addition of responses to M1028, M1311, M2102 and removal of responses to M2310.
  • Review of additional changes to OASIS

 

About "Home Care Social"

Home Care Social is a service that gives you daily, professionally-written content that you provide to the public on your social media sites. With a REVERB subscription, you can position yourself as a source of healthcare and business knowledge, all without having to hire someone to do it. You will build your reputation in the community and be top of mind when home care or hospice needs arise.

How it works: At least 45 times per month, proposed content will be delivered to you for posting on your social media pages, such as Facebook Business, LinkedIn, and Twitter. You may upload it as is, edit it before posting, or disregard it until the next one comes. Building a professional, expert social media page has never been easier.
See the RRR web site for more details
RowanReputationResources.com

Online Education

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Online Education Services

Rowan Consulting Associates has partnered with Relias Learning to bring Healthcare at Home providers a complete catalog of online courses at VIP discount pricing. Open the boxes below for a full description of the course titles available to your clinicians and administrators.
Academy All Access
Academy All Access is the most cost-efficient and convenient way to access Relias Learning's massive library of online continuing education.* With over 1,200 courses at your fingertips and one-click enrollment, you can not only take CE you need, but CE you actually want!

Benefits of All Access include:
  • 12 months access to 1,200+ accredited online training courses.
  • One-click instant enrollment into courses approved by major boards: ANCC, AOTA, APA, APTA, ASWB, NAADAC, NAB, NADSP, NBCC, dozens of state licensing bodies, and more!
All for only $299!
Home Health Course Categories

  • Administration & Management
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Behavioral Health
  • Clinical Skills
  • Communication
  • Diabetes
  • Disease & Condition Management
  • Ethics
  • Infection Control
  • Medical Errors Prevention
  • Palliative Care
  • Rehabilitation
  • Therapy
Hospice Course Categories

  • Administration & Management
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Behavioral Health
  • Clinical Skills
  • Communication
  • Diabetes
  • Disease & Condition Management
  • Ethics
  • Infection Control
  • Medical Errors Prevention
  • Rehabilitation
  • Therapy
Academy Web Site
RowanResources.Academy.ReliasLearning.com