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Business Writers Mixer 2016

September 1, 2016 by Danny

The Business Writers Mixer took place at the Concourse Athletic Club Grille on September 1, 2016. This event was a first of it’s kind featuring succesful business writers and aspiring authors brought to by Business Writers Exchange.

Fadi Malouf / Professional Consultant

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Lativah Greene / Lativahs Home Care
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Sherry von Klitzing / Virtual Properties Realty

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Gary W. Patterson / Fiscal Doctor

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Melissa Smith / The PVA
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Chris Butsch / Millennial Wellness Expert

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Naomie Banatte / Dreams Are Really Epiphanies

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Peter Bowerman / The Well Fed Writer

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Shani Leccima and Samuel Leccima / Get Access to Capital

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Ricky Steele / Steele Technology Partners

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Tanya D. Bryant / Just Lovely
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Tina L. Greer / Greer Business Solutions, LLC

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Business Writers Radio Episode One: James Dallas And Joyce Bone

September 1, 2016 by Danny

Business Writers Radio Episode One

Joyce Bone / Bone Up On Business

Joyce Bone, MBA is an accomplished entrepreneur and author of Millionaire Moms-The Art of Raising a Business and a Family at The Same Time. She is recognized for her business acumen and ability to develop others.

Featured on CNBC’s “The Squawk Box,” and in Kiplinger, Money, Woman’s Day, Forbes, Atlanta Business Chronicle, and CEO magazines she is who others turn to for sound business advice. Joyce co-founded and led EarthCare, a non-hazardous liquid waste environmental company traded on NASDAQ (ECCO) ultimately achieving $125 million annual revenues.

Since that time, she has successfully scaled a variety of businesses from start up to millions including BLAMtastic, a retail consumer products goods company located in 25,000 stores and growing.

Joyce teaches entrepreneurship to undergraduates at Gwinnett Tech. She coaches and consults with individuals and organizations on refining their winning edge to reach unprecedented levels. Joyce believes the person you become as an entrepreneur is as valuable as the monetary gains. Her goal is to help others reach their full potential personally and financially.

James Dallas / James Dallas & Associates

H. James Dallas is an accomplished senior executive with extensive experience as an agent of change in large domestic and international corporate settings. He has successfully implemented over 10 transformation and turnaround initiatives, 15 acquisition integrations, and 5 operations/quality shared services centers of excellence.

James has over 30 years of experiences in General Management/Business Operation roles as well as a Chief Information Officer positions. A recent retiree of Senior Vice President of Quality, Operations and IT at Medtronic, Inc. in September 2013, James had the responsibility for executing cross-business initiatives to maximize the company’s global operating leveraging.

James also served as a member of Medtronic’s executive management team. Prior to joining Medtronic, Inc. in 2006, James was Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Georgia-Pacific Corporation, a global forest products company that employed over 55,000 people. In his 22 years at Georgia Pacific, James held a series of progressively more responsible information technology and operating roles. He also served as a member of Georgia Pacific’s executive management team.

He began his career as an internal auditor for C&S National Bank, a large regional bank in Atlanta, Georgia, and has experience as a cost accountant with a focus on profitability and key profit drivers. The majority of his career has been focused on bridging the gap between strategy and execution; specifically, leading large, enterprise-wide projects and acquisition integration; using IT for competitive advantage, and leadership development. In addition, he has years of experience with IT security and data privacy.

Upon retirement in 2013, James began to speak to various individuals, organizations and businesses on how to effectively lead large projects, turn around unsuccessful ones, turning strategy into reality and achieving organizational alignment. After noticing the growing need for leadership guidance, James started James Dallas & Associates in 2014.

Lastly, James serves on the boards of for-profit and non-profit organizations, including civic and community organizations. He has been named one of the most powerful black men in corporate America several times in his career by Black Enterprise and Savoy magazines.

KSU Shrimp Tank With Innovative Outsourcing CEO Cindi Filer

September 1, 2016 by Danny

Where can a young entrepreneur figure out how to turn their dreams into reality? Just take a step into the Shrimp Tank. The Shrimp Tank brings you interviews with some of the most successful business owners in the United States to learn the do’s and don’ts of starting and running a successful business. Then, the fun really starts when we bring in high school and college students to pitch their business ideas to the Shrimp Tank. We don’t fund any business, but we do teach kids how to turn their business ideas into a successful business.

Hosts of The Shrimp Tank Chris Hanks and Ted Jenkin.

Cindi Filer / Innovative Outsourcing

Cindi has spent 26 years helping companies acquire talented part-time professionals and learn how to work with them to their full potential. Cindi graduated from Wake Forest University with a degree in Mathematical Economics. She spent the early days of her career at Delta Air Lines and Worldspan (A Delta Company) in the Human Resources space.

22 years ago, she founded Innovative Outsourcing – a staffing and recruiting firm dedicated to helping professionals seeking part-time long-term work (such as Moms and Dads) with small businesses who need excellent talent just not for full-time hours.

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Launching Soon ! Business Writers Radio

August 31, 2016 by Danny

Launching Soon ! Business Writers Radio

Brought to you by Business Writers Exchange . . .

Our first episode Airs Live Thursday 9/1 1:30 Eastern.

In the meantime, enjoy the interviews below from our most recent Conference, and consider joining us for our next Boot Camp.

Alexa Chilcutt / University Of Alabama

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Ann McIndoo / So, You Want To Write !

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Camille Ferond / La Forma Del Cuore APS

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Halelly Azulay / TalentGrow, LLC

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Helen McPhun / Learn Plus

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Lisa Hillenbrand / Stragility Change Management

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Maureen Orey / Workplace Learning & Performance Group

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Paul Smith / Story Makers, LLC

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Suzanne Schell / ROI Institute Canada

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Tonya Moore / Middle GA Community Healthy Marriage Initiative

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Katherine Hyatt / Reinhardt University

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Norma Davila and Wanda Pina / The Human Factor Consulting Group

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Stephen Power / AMACOM

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HealtheParadigm

August 31, 2016 by Danny

Susan Moore and Laura McCrary

HealtheParadigm

I hosted a special edition of Top Docs Radio with MAG this week, to talk about healthcare information exchanges with MAG’s Susan Moore, and Laura McCrary, SVP of KaMMCO Health Solutions (KHS) and the executive director of the Kansas Health Information Network, Inc. (KHIN).

KHIN is a non-profit organization that provides health information exchange technology services to over 1,350 health care organizations throughout Kansas. KHS incorporates the KHIN formula for success with the valuable lessons learned and provides health exchange information and analytics services to physician-led organizations across the nation. Laura has been instrumental in developing the new HealtheParadigm health information network that is available in Georgia.

Susan Moore is the Medical Association of Georgia’s Director of Third Party Payer and Health Policy. She will serve as MAG’s primary contact for HealtheParadigm.

MAG and KaMMCO Health Solutions (KHS) have established a partnership that is called HealtheParadigm that is transforming the state’s health care system with a health IT solution that enables physicians to generate sophisticated patient data reports that they can use to improve outcomes and fulfill the new quality-based payer metrics.

It features a private, statewide health information network that participating physicians can use to share key patient data. HealtheParadigm will appeal to a lot of physicians and other health care providers who have remained on the sidelines because they haven’t found the right ‘fit’ given the options that are currently available in Georgia.

With the new alternative payment models that have been developed by CMS as a result of federal law – including the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and a number of Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) – it is imperative for physicians to be able to secure and submit the data they need to demonstrate they are delivering quality care.

Physicians who participate in the HealtheParadigm network will have access to actionable, real time data and meaningful reports which can help identify high-risk patients and chronic disease populations and improve patient outcomes through enhanced care coordination. Physicians have indicated they want a proven technology for connectivity that also delivers actionable intelligence while also providing patients with access to their own health data.

This new suite of health information tools not only provides physicians with seamless, real-time access to their patient’s full longitudinal medical record at the point of care but also prepares them for the transition to the MACRA/MIPS alternative payment models. MAG has established a HealtheParadigm advisory committee that consists of physicians and MAG’s executive director, Donald J. Palmisano Jr.

Physicians can contact Susan Moore with MAG at smoore@mag.org or 678-303- 9275 for details on how to begin using HealtheParadigm.

Special Guests:

Susan Moore, Director of Third Party Payer and Health Policy, Medical Association of Georgia

Laura McCrary, EVP, KaMMCO Health Solutions
Executive Director, Kansas Health Information Network

Author Dr. Jay Faber and Enduring Hearts

August 31, 2016 by Danny

Ankur Chatterjee

Author Dr. Jay Faber and Enduring Hearts

Founded as a nonprofit organization in 2013, the mission of Enduring Hearts is to fund research that both increases the longevity of pediatric heart transplants and improves the quality of life for transplant recipients. The results of funded research projects contribute to the clinical and scientific knowledge about many important aspects of organ transplantation, e.g. the mechanisms of long-term organ deterioration, the consequences of tissue injury, and opportunities to intervene, postpone, and eliminate these rejection processes.

Executive Director for Enduring Hearts, Ankur Chatterjee joined me to talk about how the organization got its start and what it hopes to achieve by supporting research that will help extend the life

Dr. Faber is a veteran children’s and adult psychiatrist on staff at the Amen Clinic in Atlanta and in Costa Mesa, California. He has written a book entitled “Escape: Rehab Your Brain to Stay out of the Legal System,” so he’ll be talking about this publication and how he believes this will be a game-changer for those who find themselves constantly getting into trouble with the law, often to the point of incarceration.

I was surprised to hear that as many as 85% of incarcerated Americans suffer from some form of substance abuse/addiction and many also face mental illness. Dr. Faber’s book shares a road map for people who are dealing with substance abuse/addiction to be able to have a greater chance of recovery.

Karen Lawton and Barbara Bouldin of SJ Technologies

August 30, 2016 by Danny

Karen Lawton / SJ Technologies

Karen Lawton, CEO and Founder of SJ Technologies, has worked in information technology for over 15 years. She started her career by co-founding an Oracle-centric software company in 1997, during the dot com era. Karen was quick to learn critical aspects of running a business and rose to every challenge she faced, like raising the $12 million needed to grow the business through three rounds of venture capital.

Early in her career, Karen was fortunate to be mentored by experienced industry executives whose guidance helped her successfully obtain strategic accounts with organizations like GE, Fidelity Investments and the LA County Sheriffs’ Department. Since then, her focus has been on business development and account management in the areas of software solutions, platform and system architecture, and business systems.

Prior to launching SJ Technologies in 2009, Karen held leadership roles at several technology companies spanning many different industry segments and corporate cultures. Those experiences provided her with the network, experience and industry knowledge required to deliver outstanding service and technological solutions to her customers.

As someone who experienced entrepreneurship at an early age, Karen is passionate about mentoring young adults in her community and helping them find their paths to success. She is actively involved with organizations like Women in Technology and WBENC, through which she promotes a balance of business and family life to the women she mentors. As a mother of three, Karen intimately understands the demands working mothers face and serves as a role model to young women striving for success both at work and at home.

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Barbara Bouldin / SJ Technologies

Ms Bouldin, a veteran of the Information Technology industry, began her career as a software engineer and in this role developed software in diverse languages and on many platforms. As her career progressed she became involved in Business Development and spent several years in the Silicon Valley. This phase of her career culminated in the founding of her own company, InfoShark, Inc, in 1997. Infoshark’s business was focused on delivering data extracted from Oracle databases to the Internet in user-friendly form. Her daughter, Karen Lawton, the CEO and Founder of SJ Technologies, was a co-founder and the leading sales person at InfoShark, Inc. It is noteworthy and a tribute to mother and daughter that Ms. Bouldin is now employed at SJ Technologies, Inc. as a Business Analyst.

Ms Bouldin is an accomplished author and has published articles in technical journals as well as a book. The book, Agents of Change, describes her methodology for assisting organizations adopt new technologies.

She has also taught high school mathematics to students who have been suspended from their base high school. She found that many of these students struggled with special needs and learning disabilities in Mathematics and was therefore able to honor a commitment to help young people.

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Cobb County Chamber of Commerce, IAG Forensics and Valuation, Georgia Trade School

August 26, 2016 by Danny

Amy Selby, Pat Salem, Sean Quinton

Cobb County Chamber of Commerce, IAG Forensics & Valuation, Georgia Trade School

This week we continued our monthly series with Cobb County Chamber of Commerce. Cobb CoC’s Vice President of Marketing & Communications, Amy Selby, sat in with me as we hosted Pat Salem, CPA, CFE, Forensic Accountant, with IAG Forensics & Valuation, and Sean Quinton, Vice President, with Georgia Trade School. Both of these businesses are among the Top 25 Businesses for 2016 for the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce.

Pat Salem joined IAG Forensics in July 2010 as a forensic accountant. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). Pat previously worked in information technology as a software developer for Lockheed Martin for a number of years before she learned about forensic accounting. Intrigued, she set off on a new career, going back to school for an accounting degree. She has a Master of Professional Accountancy (MPA) from Georgia State University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont.

Email: pat@IAGforensics.com

Direct dial: 770.635.1698

The technical chair of the Skills USA Georgia Welding and Fabrication Competition since 2012, Sean Quinton is the Vice President of Georgia Trade School. Mr. Quinton’s career in welding education began in 2008 as the Director of Operations for the Center of Industry and Technology. In this role, Sean was responsible for increasing gross revenues by 152%, increasing net profits by 520% and student enrollment by 215%. A Certified Welding Inspector, Sean oversaw welding operations at CIT to insure quality assurance and to document all tests are conducted in accordance with industry standards. A member of the American Welding Society since 2009, Mr. Quinton has completed contract inspection and welding work for Rockdale Pipeline, McKinney Drilling, Work Installation Design Services and HEMI Systems. Prior to being named the Executive Chair of Skills USA Georgia, Sean served as a judge in the welding and fabrication sections from 2008 to 2012. In 2015 Mr. Quinton was named a National Judge at the Skills USA Welding and Fabrication Championship in Louisville, Kentucky.

With a love for fabrication and motorsports, Mr. Quinton has immersed himself in the welding industry and gets to wake up every day looking forward to what he gets to do! Sean has attended FabTech the trade’s largest convention in each market (Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas) that it travels to. At GTS, Sean is responsible for the welding laboratory, welding instruction staff, curriculum and certification testing. Mr. Quinton has also worked on some high profile projects right here in the city of Kennesaw. The Metro areas first whiskey distillery, Lazy Guy commissioned Sean and GTS instructor James Spinner to build their tanks and barrel holders. The Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, A Smithsonian Affiliate had this combination build stairs for their attractions. Mr. Quinton has also starred in a national commercial for Jackson Safety’s Balder Welding Hood which was filmed at Georgia Trade School. Jackson Safety has also hosted Sean in their booth at FabTech in both the Chicago and Atlanta Markets where he performed welds in front of 25,000 plus convention attendees.

Special Guests:

Amy Selby, VP Marketing & Communications, Cobb County Chamber of Commerce

Pat Salem, CPA, CFE, IAG Forensice & Valuation

Sean Quinton, VP CWI, Georgia Trade School

Practice Transformation Networks Explained

August 26, 2016 by Danny

Practice Transformation Networks Explained

This week, on MAG’s ongoing Top Docs Radio series, I hosted two experts in practice transformation networks (PTN’s).

The Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI) is designed to help more than 150,000 U.S clinicians improve quality and reduce costs – keeping in mind that the Medicare is changing from a volume-based payment system to a quality-based payment system in the next several years. The four-year, $800 million TCPI initiative is being funded by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation.

It is aligned with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Medicare Access and Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). The TCPI includes a network of 29 “practice transformation networks” (PTNs) that are designed to 1) improve health outcomes and 2) improve care coordination and 3) better engage patients and families and 4) improve patient, clinician and staff satisfaction and 5) reduce the overall cost of care. There is no cost for clinicians or practices to join a PTN. There are four PTNs that support clinicians in Georgia.

QualityImpact PTN

The QualityImpact PTN provides medical practices with meaningful support and resources to help them thrive in a value-based delivery environment. The QualityImpact PTN is a conduit and agent of CMS to work locally with physician groups and practices to assist them in preparation and readiness for alternative payment models. It provides services across the southeastern U.S. and beyond. It has already surpassed its enrollment target of 3,400 clinicians. Practices that enroll in the QualityImpact PTN receive a “comprehensive, transformation ‘package’ that includes: MDinsight – A sophisticated, EHR-integrated, population health management platform; Care Delivery Consulting – Process improvement facilitation enabling improved efficiency, quality, and proactive patient management; Clinical Quality Improvement – Expert-led guidance tailored to care gaps/opportunities.”

National Rural Accountable Care Consortium

NRACC has recruited more than 7,000 providers nationwide and is leading more than 876 practices through transformation from volume-based to value-based care payment models. TCPI will equip practices and clinics with the education and resources to establish the necessary population health framework and infrastructure at no cost to participating physicians while improving revenue through new billable wellness and prevention services. The following TCPI services are delivered to each practice location free for four years: Health Data Analytics Software offering a Quality Improvement Program, Risk Stratification, Annual Wellness Visit Tracking and Care Planning Program; Training & Development for Care Coordinators, Practice Managers, Billers and Coders; Implementation of a Billable Chronic Care Management program; 24/7 Nurse Advice Hotline; Patient Satisfaction Program with computer tablets for each practice; and PCMH readiness assessments every six months and training in Quarterly workshops.

Debra Simmons is the project director for the Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control’s (COSEHC)QualityImpact PTN. She also serves as COSEHC’s executive director. COSEHC is a non-profit professional health care organization that is based at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina. Debra has a long history in health care – serving in such roles as clinical nurse, department director, chief nursing officer, and quality improvement program director in both pediatric and adult hospital settings.

Kathy Whitmire is the regional vice president of the National Rural Accountable Care Consortium. Her responsibilities include physician recruitment and oversight of continuous quality improvement for the Transforming Clinical Practices Initiative (TCPI) in the Southeast. Kathy’s experience is in health care reimbursement and education. She served as the managing director of a rural hospital network of 65 hospitals and their affiliated clinics and practices in the Southeast for 15 years. She holds a degree in business administration and is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Georgia Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.