Insights from RCJ’s First Informal Vendor Roundtable

🎉 Congratulations — you secured the RHTP grant. Now what?

That was the core question behind today’s Rural Care Journey Featured Vendor Roundtable.

As RHTP moves from awards into implementation, the challenge changes quickly. It is no longer just:

“How do we win the funding?”

It becomes:

“Who can actually help us deliver the program?”

🏥 Rural organizations may need technology, clinical services, workforce support, equipment, implementation partners, procurement expertise, and compliance support — often on very short timelines.

🤝 That is why RCJ is building more than a vendor directory. We are building an implementation-ready network to help rural health organizations find best-fit partners across telehealth, RPM, AI, interoperability, EMS, care coordination, equipment, workforce, behavioral health, chronic disease management, project implementation, procurement, and compliance.

💡 Today’s discussion reinforced an important point:

Funding alone does not create transformation. Execution capacity does.

👏 Thank you to the leaders and teams who participated, representing organizations across the RCJ vendor community:

Empowered-Home, Savvik Buying Group, PowerTrain, Julota, AISAP, Elemeno Health, OnMed, Solutionz, Aquila Health, Predoc, EtherMed, eDermatology, Osleri, Telemedicine.com, Rainbow Health, GrandPad, and WellCheck.

🙏 Special thanks to Brandon Wagner, Tracy Gordon, Joshua Cast, Kristin DeProspero, Eric Bacon, Sushmi Kosuri, Nick Torres, Shailendra Sinasni, and Ayushi Patel for sharing their perspectives.

🧭 We also came away with practical priorities for RCJ:

• Better awardee intelligence
• Clearer vendor registration guidance
• Compliance and reporting timelines
• Improved program taxonomy
• Targeted alerts
• Stronger connections between vendors and implementation needs

🚀 The next phase of RHTP will not be defined only by who receives funding. It will be defined by who can turn that funding into something that actually works in rural communities.

🔎 Explore the RCJ Vendor Network:
https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/vendors

Winning the grant is the beginning. Implementation is where transformation happens.