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Health Connect South Radio on Midtown Business RadioX Spotlights Cobb2020 – Business RadioX

October 1, 2015 by angishields

ATLANTA, GA–(Marketwired – October 01, 2015) – On September 9, 2015, Health Connect South Radio welcomed to the studio Dr. Jack Kennedy and Lisa Crossman with the Cobb-Douglas Department of Public Health and Becky Shipley with the YMCA of Metro Atlanta. Host CW Hall sat down with these guests to learn about the Cobb2020 health initiative.

The Cobb2020 Partnership is a partnership of community organizations and individuals dedicated to promoting healthy lifestyles and the delivery of essential health services in Cobb County. As a health initiative coordinated through the Cobb-Douglas Department of Public Health, this far-reaching effort aims to improve the health of this region that hosts over 800,000 residents across a number of health and lifestyle markers such as smoking, obesity, access to primary care, and many more.

Through a strategic process called Mobilizing Action Through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP), Cobb2020 has assessed the current health status of the County and is developing a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) that will help create significant changes in building a healthier community.

“The overall goal is to implement strategic changes throughout Cobb County over the next five years,” explained Dr. Kennedy. “These changes will build a foundation for reducing and preventing chronic disease such as diabetes, stroke, heart disease and cancer by promoting healthy lifestyles and better access to health and prevention services for the community.”

Some of the highlights of programs implemented by the CHIP include three new Farm Fresh Markets that opened in the Spring of 2014 in a food desert in Austell, GA, and several Cobb2020 partners established regular mini-markets onsite for their employees and clients. Additionally, a no-smoking ordinance for parks and cemeteries in the City of Kennesaw passed in June 2014. A new Childhood Obesity Grant was obtained from Healthcare Georgia to support work on joint use agreements and work with school wellness councils. And Good Samaritan Health Center of Cobb, a Cobb2020 partner, was approved as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) bringing more resources to improve access to health services.

To learn more about the Cobb2020 program, listen to the entire interview on Health Connect South Radio.

About Health Connect South:

The mission of Health Connect South is to serve the health community as a sustainable platform for regional health collaborations. Through our collective work, we seek to broadly define and advance the Southeast’s role in the future of health. Serving as a gateway between health industry silos, we seek to provide unique and meaningful partnership opportunities in health. We will advance our mission by bringing together top-tier health leaders and innovators across disciplines to engage each other in collaborative conversations focused on meeting identified health needs through leveraging supporting ideas and institutions. Join host CW Hall every Tuesday at 9am Eastern to listen LIVE to Health Connect South RADIO, sponsored by ShareWIK Media Group, a health and wellness content creation company.

About Business RadioX®:

Business RadioX® interviews dozens of innovative entrepreneurs and successful leaders each week. Its mission is to help local businesses Get the Word Out about the important work they’re doing for their market, their community, and their profession. With a pro-business slant and a long-form interview format, guests don’t have to worry about being ambushed or talking in “sound bites.” Guests have enough time to tell their whole story and to share their insights and experience without interruptions. Business RadioX® hosts are business professionals interviewing their peers, drilling down on the critical issues, and delivering practical information to an engaged business audience. Business topics that are frequently covered include: Law, Finance, Healthcare, Technology, Trade Shows, B2B Marketing, Venture Capital, Training and Development and other issues impacting the business community. For more information, visit: https://businessradiox.com.

ShareWIK, Bioscape Digital, and ER Express – Top Docs Radio

October 29, 2014 by angishields

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ShareWIK, Bioscape Digital, and ER Express

This week I sat down with the CEO’s of ShareWIK, Bioscape Digital, and ER Express. With the recent implementation of the Affordable Care Act, new requirements came into effect that placed emphasis on patient satisfaction as a component of reimbursement. As it happens, these innovative companies had been developing and implementing their innovative platforms that dramatically improve patient experience and engagement before the law came into effect. That positions them as leaders in the space and I was pleased to have them join us to talk about what they’re doing.

ShareWIK.com provides licensed health information to a wide variety of organizations seeking to provide useful health content to their website and social media visitors. The writers who contribute to the ShareWIK content are journalists who have a true understanding of the topics they are covering. Content is vetted for accuracy before distribution. That means companies and healthcare organizations seeking to control health costs through helping employees and patients make better choices in their daily lives now have an effective, engaging tool to do just that. The team at ShareWIK is also collaborating with the Bioscape Digital platform to provide content that will be served to their patient-users.

ER Express is an application/platform that enables participating ER’s and Urgent Care centers to post an estimated time they can expect to be seen at their location. This means a prospective patient can register and hold their place in line and do much of their wait time at home, work, etc. The application uses IP address and Geo-tagging for users on mobile devices to display nearby area care centers and their estimated Time To Be Seen. In this way patients can reduce their overall wait time as well as optimize ER versus Urgent Care utilization for non-life-threatening problems. The service is free for patients to use and is currently available for numerous major health facilities in the Atlanta metro (and elsewhere in the country).

Bioscape Digital is a tablet-based platform for use in the emergency department and urgent care settings. The platform is simple to use with a simple, intuitive point-click interface. It serves the patient with professionally-produced health content provided by ShareWIK that covers a variety of topics from what to expect with a given type of study or procedure to information about available services within the hospital. The platform provides an engaging way for patients to occupy their time spent waiting for care that improves their awareness of useful health information at the same time. Patients can use the platform to communicate positive and negative feedback in real time to hospital personnel, giving the staff the opportunity to potentially address and correct issues of concern. Their platform is already showing a dramatic improvement in patient satisfaction scores as well as staff morale in their client-user facilities.

These Atlanta-based companies are helping to improve the way care is delivered and the way the experience is perceived by patients. It’s exciting to get to introduce them to a wider audience and help them expand adoption of these helpful, innovative technology platforms.

Special Guests:

Diana Keough, CEO/Founder of ShareWIK.com

Journalism Instructor/Guest Lecturer, Emory University
Member, Koles College of Business Advisory Board, Kennsaw State University
Former Front Page Series Writer, The Plain Dealer
Former Reporter/Commentator, WKSU
Co-author, “Building a Business, Building a Life: The Incredible Life of a Woman Business Owner”

Sahil Patel, President of ER Express

Former VP Decision Support, MedAssets
Former Independent Consultant, CodeRyte
BBA, Emory University Goizueta Business School
MBA, Harvard Business School

Stuart Bracken, CEO of Bioscape Digital

MBA, Finance, Emory Goizueta Business School
Co-Founder, Knowledge2Work
Co-Founder, Phoenix Holdings
President, Goizueta Alumni Entrepreneur Network

Robotic Hair Restoration and ShareWIK – Top Docs Radio

October 15, 2014 by angishields

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This week I sat down with Dr. Kenneth Anderson, Atlanta’s only robotic hair restoration specialist, and Diana Keough, CEO/Founder of ShareWIK (What I Know). Dr. Anderson brought along Sara Kovac, his Patient Advocate who meets with prospective patients inquiring about available treatments for hair loss, and Jonathon Williamson, a satisfied patient of his. We learned how Anderson Hair Sciences Center places much emphasis on patient experience when they consult with the practice. Dr. Anderson personally meets with every patient and schedules only one procedure per day to allow for a thorough, unhurried approach to every patient. Patient Jonathon brought a before photo with him to allow for comparison with his now-full head of hair. It is virtually impossible to see where his procedure was conducted. He talked about how other hair restoration groups had him meet with a sales person rather than a physician and showed photos of results obtained by a procedure but the patients shown weren’t work done by that practice’s provider. Reasons for selecting their practice focused on discounted pricing rather than clinical qualifications and outcomes. We talked about the value of Dr. Anderson’s training (including board certification) in plastic surgery and how it contributes to the artistic component of achieving a natural-looking hairline for his patients.

Diana Keough of ShareWIK shared her story of how she decided to launch her company, having spent the bulk of her career as a healthcare journalist for a Midwest news paper. She leveraged her experience in healthcare journalism and knowledge of how to effectively tell a patient’s story to begin producing compelling content that shares helpful information that viewers can relate to. As their website, sharewik.com states, “ShareWIK Media Group produces and distributes health and wellness content that uses the power of personal storytelling to Engage, Educate & Inspire consumers to make better decisions that impact their health. With hundreds of “MyVoice” in-depth patient videos at the core of its product line, ShareWIK syndicates its content to media outlets and licenses its proprietary educational modules to employers, benefits providers, corporate wellness platforms, and other channels within the healthcare industry.”

Special Guests:

Dr. Kenneth Anderson, MD, of Anderson Hair Sciences Center

Doctor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Residency, General Surgery, University of Michigan
Residency, Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery, University of Michigan
Fellow, Facial and Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, University of Michigan
Assist. Clinical Professor of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Hair Restoration Specialist, Emory Facial Center, Dept. of Otolaryngology-Head/Neck Surgery, Emory School of Medicine

Diana Keough, CEO/Founder of ShareWIK.com

Journalism Instructor/Guest Lecturer, Emory University
Member, Koles College of Business Advisory Board, Kennsaw State University
Former Front Page Series Writer, The Plain Dealer
Former Reporter/Commentator, WKSU
Co-author, “Building a Business, Building a Life: The Incredible Life of a Woman Business Owner”