Justin’ s guest is Rama Juturu (ramaonhealthcare.com), healthcare strategist discussing 2016 top strategies for #physician practices and #hospitals.
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Justin’ s guest is Rama Juturu (ramaonhealthcare.com), healthcare strategist discussing 2016 top strategies for #physician practices and #hospitals.
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ATLANTA, GA–(Marketwired – December 28, 2015) – On December 16, 2015, Health Connect South Radio welcomed to the studio Wende Parker with the Cobb-Douglas Department of Public Health and Mark Anderson with the Cobb County School District. Host CW Hall sat down with these guests to learn more about Sharing Spaces and Power Up for 30, programs under the Cobb 2020 Initiative.
The Cobb 2020 initiative, created and implemented by the Cobb-Douglas Department of Public Health under the direction of Dr. Jack Kennedy, aims to address a number of public health concerns that erode level of health and quality of life for many of the over 850,000 resident who live there. The Sharing Spaces program and Power Up for 30 program both aim to facilitate more physical activity among student-aged populations.
Childhood obesity is rising among young people at alarming rates. According to the American Heart Association, about one in three American kids and teens is overweight or obese, nearly triple the rate in 1963. Among children today, obesity is causing a broad range of health problems that previously weren’t seen until adulthood. These include high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and elevated blood cholesterol levels. There are also psychological effects: obese children are more prone to low self-esteem, negative body image and depression. And excess weight at young ages has been linked to higher and earlier death rates in adulthood.
Wende Parker serves as the District Director of Chronic Disease & Injury Prevention for the Cobb-Douglas Department of Public Health. Parker works closely with Mark Anderson, Supervisor, Health & Physical Education with the Cobb County School District, to manage the Sharing Spaces and Power Up for 30 programs.
“The Sharing Spaces program seeks to partner with community organizations that have playgrounds, gyms, tracks and trails, giving area residents access to these resources, particularly young people,” explained Parker. “In this way, the community will see declines in rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and others, and students enjoy academic performance upticks to boot.”
To learn more about these Cobb 2020 Initiative programs, 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.
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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://lucas-brx-site-speed.sprod01.rmkr.net.
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Ira Weiss / The Startup Box Group
Ira is a corporate executive with over thirty-five years of decisive and successful financial management experience. His extensive finance and operations expertise, audit and procedural accounting background, along with extensive information systems and analytical skills have enabled him to meet corporate goals and produce results on time and within budget. He is currently a co-founder and board member of BioDtech, Inc. a life science company located in Birmingham, Alabama. In addition, Ira is a senior mentor for the Co.Lab and the Life Science TN mentoring program. He has recently mentored several GIGTANK program participants including The Ark Labs and 3D Ops Chattanooga, TN. He has also sat on numerous non- profit boards having initiated successful fund raising and corporate sponsorship programs. Ira and his business partners advise and consult with accelerators/incubators throughout the Southeast.
Stacey Crisp / Regus
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Erica Newman / The Speech and Hearing Center
Erica Newman is a graduate of the University of Miami where she earned degrees in both Broadcast Journalism and English. She began her career in the television news industry and lived in California, Nevada, and Georgia before moving to Chattanooga for a reporting job with a local news affiliate. Her passion for helping people led her into the world of healthcare and non-profit work. She has extensive experience working with both non- and for-profit healthcare agencies, including OT/PT/Speech services, as well as serving on several boards for education resource groups, area Chambers of Commerce, and developing relationships with area physicians and medical institutions. Erica has a personal connection with the mission of the Center, as both her sister and brother-in-law were born deaf and communicate through text, email, FaceTime, and American Sign Language (ASL). Erica has always been passionate about helping those with hearing challenges and is fluent in ASL herself. She continues to be an active member of many deaf and hard of hearing groups in the Chattanooga area. Erica is originally from Boston but now lives in Chattanooga with her husband, and their family.
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As a healthcare innovation executive and strategist, Justin is a corporate, board and policy advisor who also serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC). Justin mentors and provides strategic entrepreneurial advice as well as key business connections to help grow a wide range of organizations including healthcare and IT companies, industry collaboratives, health systems and physician practices. In addition, Mr. Barnes is Chairman Emeritus of the HIMSS Electronic Health Record (EHR) Association as well as Co-Chairman of theAccountable Care Community of Practice where he assists both organizations with industry strategy and leadership. Justin is also the host of the weekly syndicated radio show “This Just In” on Healthcare Radio.
Barnes previously was a member of the leadership team at Greenway Health where he worked for 11 years primarily serving as Vice President of Marketing, Industry Affairs, Government Relations and International Affairs.
In addition, Barnes was a member of the founding team and Vice President of the patient-provider communications and engagement company, Healinx Corporation. Today, Healinx is known as theRelayHealth Division of McKesson. Before joining Healinx, Barnes held several National Operations positions with HBO & Company that subsequently merged with McKesson in 1999.
Justin has formally addressed and/or testified before Congress as well as the last two Presidential Administrations on more than twenty occasions since 2005 with statements relating to value-based medicine, accountable care, interoperability, EHR meaningful use, consumerism, health IT innovation, health information exchange, patient engagement, quality, HIPAA and the globalization of healthcare. Barnes is a regular public speaker on these issues and has appeared in more than 800 journals, magazines and broadcast media outlets relating to national leadership of healthcare and health IT. In addition, Barnes has advised several U.S. Presidential campaigns on healthcare public policy, HIPAA, health information exchange, health IT and EHRs.
Barnes majored in Legal Studies and holds a BA & BS from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and served Rotary International as a Board Member and Chairman of Public Relations for the Amherst Rotary Club. He also served in the U.S. Army in Infantry & Communication Units.
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ATLANTA, GA–(Marketwired – December 18, 2015) – On November 6, 2015, DeKalb Business Radio set up shop at the first ever RAISE (Retention and Advanced Investment for the Southeast at Emory) Forum for investors at Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business. Host Jason Becknell interviewed innovators and thought leaders from around the southeast as they came to DeKalb County to find the millions of dollars they need to grow their brands.
RAISE believes Atlanta can become the next hub for Entrepreneurship and is doing all it can to ensure the success of growing businesses in the Southeast with the highest potential. The Forum was organized to identify the region’s leading entrepreneurs seeking funding. RAISE is working to keep early-stage companies in the Southeast, funding them locally, and building a strong, collaborative culture in the region.
“By coming alongside the best companies to find the right backers, provide training, perfect their presentations, and introduce them to active investors, we’re increasing their chances of success,” explained Dr. Klaas Baks, Executive Director of the Emory Center for Alternative Investments & Associate Professor in the Practice of Finance at Emory University.
During the Forum, the selected entrepreneurs with post-revenue companies presented to the RAISE panel of investors, seeking an investment between $1MM and $5MM and the opportunity to learn from major university and regional business leaders. Negotiations continue to be managed between the presenters and investors as a result of the Forum.
The intention of the RAISE Forum is to bring more resources and coordination to the funding process, establish greater ties in the Southeast for the Southeast, enable more collaboration between government and the process, and create more and better outlets for good companies to get funding. Organizers are planning another RAISE Forum for the Spring and hope to make this a twice a year event at Emory.
To learn more about the RAISE Forum and hear interviews from participants of the event, tune in to DeKalb Business Radio.
About DeKalb Business Radio:
Broadcasting live from beautiful downtown Decatur, DeKalb Business RadioX is the voice of business news in DeKalb County. Each week on DeKalb Business Today, hosts Matt Holms and Jason Becknell interview top business leaders and entrepreneurs to help them get the word out about their businesses and help them connect with other industry leaders. DeKalb Business Today airs on Fridays at 10am Eastern.
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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://lucas-brx-site-speed.sprod01.rmkr.net.
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ATLANTA, GA–(Marketwired – December 17, 2015) – On November 16, 2015, Top Docs Radio welcomed to the studio Donald Palmisano with the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) and Dr. John Rogers with Coliseum Northside Hospital. Host CW Hall led this month’s MAG special to talk about the challenges and concerns arising from recently-proposed mergers between large health insurance companies that will significantly reduce the amount of competition in the space for Georgians to choose.
Donald Palmisano is the CEO and Executive Director of MAG. The Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) is the leading advocate for physicians in the state. MAG focuses on legislative, legal and third party payer issues. Serving as the Co-Medical Director of Coliseum Northside Hospital, Dr. John Rogers is also a MAG delegate from Bibb County. The studio discussion focused on the fact that Aetna/Humana and Anthem/Cigna are in the process of merging. At the same time, health insurers are offering insurance policies to the public that do not have adequate coverage, resulting in more out of network charges by physicians.
Aetna/Humana and Wellpoint/Cigna have proposed mergers in the health insurance market. If these inadequate policies are being offered in the current environment, MAG is concerned about how patients will be negatively impacted with a further narrowing of the networks and increased physician reliance on out of network charges.
MAG recently sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice to call for it to scrutinize the mergers for antitrust violations. According to Palmisano, “We believe the mergers would reduce competition and place physicians and their patients at an even greater disadvantage as a shrinking number of health insurance companies gain increasingly-dominant positions in the marketplace.”
“Physicians have little-to-no leverage to negotiate contract terms with these multi-billion dollar conglomerates,” explained Dr. Rogers, “which are imposing take-it-or-leave-it agreements and unilateral, mid-term amendments with growing impunity.”
Gone unchecked, a few insurers will be in a position to manipulate the marketplace to institute policies that will exacerbate the physician shortage and undermine the economic viability of the practice environment in the state, and limit the accessibility of care and individual patient choice.
To learn more about MAG’s position on healthcare mergers, listen to the entire interview onTop Docs Radio.
About Top Docs Radio:
Top Docs Radio is a forum for conversations with leading doctors and thought leaders. Discussions are about cutting edge trends and topics in health, wellness and lifestyle issues. Top Docs Radio is presented by Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia and is hosted by Charles “CW” Hall. The program airs live every Thursday at Noon Eastern.
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://lucas-brx-site-speed.sprod01.rmkr.net.
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Lakweshia Ewing / Biz Boom Apps
A native Memphian has resided in Chattanooga, TN for 9 years. Mrs. Ewing is a graduate of Austin Peay State University where she majored in Psychology with a minor in Africana Studies. She also holds a Masters in Education from Tennessee Tech University and is currently an Organizational Leadership Doctoral candidate. Mrs. Ewing served a as the District Family Engagement and Community Partnerships Director for Hamilton County Dept. of Education for the past 7 years.
Currently, she most recently served as the Deputy Executive Director of UnifiEd a community led public education advocacy organization. As a national facilitator, she has given presentations at educational conferences across the nation. She holds memberships in several educational, civic, social, and religious organizations such as the National School Reform Faculty, Black Alliance for Educational Options, Pi Lambda Theta Honor Society. She also has served the Chattanooga community for years as an active member of the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Board of Directors, OnPoint Board of Directors, Chattanooga Cares Board of Directors , Junior Achievement of Chattanooga Board of Directors and Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy Board of Directors.
Mrs. Ewing has received many notable awards such as The City of Memphis Award of Merit, Girls Incorporated Pioneers, Leaders, and Role Models Award, University of Pennsylvania Research Scholars Award, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Ronald McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Award. Most recently Mrs. Ewing was selected as a Next City Vanguard 2014 Class member. This is a national Think Tank that selects 40 of the top 40 up and coming young leaders across the country. Mrs. Ewing is also the Co-owner of a national technology company Biz Boom Apps, LLC which has had such success and growth that it has received the Emerging Business of the Year Award for 2014 from the Urban League of Greater Chattanooga. Lakweshia is a licensed Evangelist Missionary under the International Church of God in Christ Ministry. She is currently a member and Teen Leader at The New Holy Temple Cathedral Church of God in Christ in Chattanooga, TN under the TN Eastern 2nd Jurisdictional Prelate Bishop James Marion Scott, Sr. Mrs. Ewing also serves as the Jurisdictional COGIC Young Women of Excellence Coordinator a mentoring program for young ladies ages 13-25 in Chattanooga, Columbia, Knoxville, Nashville, Murfreesboro and Johnson City.
She is married to Mr. Julian Ewing, they have no kids of their own, but they have adopted her two half-brothers Fredrick age 15 and Emerson age 12 upon the death of their mother in 2010.
Penny Hughey / AIM
Penny Posey Hughey was born and raised in Dalton, GA and has lived in the greater Chattanooga area most all of her life. She currently lives on the shores of the Tennessee River in the new Cameron Harbor development of Downtown Chattanooga and loves having the vibrant downtown area as her back yard. She has 2 daughters, AnnaKate who is 9 and a 4th grader at Battle Academy and Kinsey who is 16 and a Junior at Collegiate High at Chattanooga State. Penny attended Presbyterian College in Clinton SC where she obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a Minor in Music. Both Penny and her 2 daughters have a passion for music and all sing in their respective choirs at Christ United Methodist Church.
Penny began a career in the banking industry at 17 yrs old as a part time teller while in school and continued working for various banks for more than 25 years eventually earning the title of Vice President of Business Development. Throughout her banking career she won several sales and outstanding customer service awards and was awarded the Young Careerist Award by the National Association of Business and Professional Women. However, her career took a different turn in 2013 when she accepted a position as the Regional Relationship Manager for AIM Chattanooga. AIM is a nonprofit community organization whose primary purpose is talent development from early student interest – to linking them to careers – to ongoing career development. Penny was drawn to AIM because of their strong connection in giving back to the community and the availability that this job provides for her to help coach people, both students just graduating from school and adults who are going through the difficult time of being unemployed. Penny is a sought after public speaker on a variety of topics from effective networking to building a personal brand to making a lasting first impression and enjoys coaching students entering the workforce for the first time on workplace ethics and business professionalism. Through her work at AIM she is active in the local Society of Human Resource Managers (SHRM) group and the Talent Acquisition Network Search (TANS) group as well as the American Association of Training and Developers (ATD) group.
She loves working with students and serves as a volunteer and teacher for the local Junior Achievement Chapter as well as for several programs through the Chamber of Commerce Workforce Development area such as “Get A Job” and “Reality Check”. Penny is a very active volunteer for the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce serving as President Elect for the Ambassador program, Vice President of Membership for the East Brainerd Council and has helped organize the Chamber’s Annual Membership drive for the past 2 years. She is a graduate of the prestigious Leadership Chattanooga program sponsored by the Chamber. Not only is she active in the Chattanooga Chamber, but Penny is also active in both the Dalton and Catoosa GA Chambers as well, serving as a Diplomat for both of those groups and is a 2001 graduate of the Leadership Dalton program. She is also an active participant in the Chattanooga Technology Council and Women In Technology. She serves on the Information Technology Curriculum Advisory Committee for Chattanooga State Community College and as part of the Business Advisory Board for Virginia College.
She is a member of Chattanooga Women’s Leadership Institute and a graduate of the 2013 class of their Women’s Mentoring training program and currently serves as the Chair of the Women Mentoring Women Alumnae council. She is a founding member and current President of the Board of Directors for the local Women Mean Business networking group. She worked with the Catoosa County Chamber to form the Catoosa Women’s Network and serves as a speaker and on the advisory board. In 2013 she formed her own networking group called The 40th Hour Social Club as a place for business professionals to connect on a monthly basis in a casual relaxed environment.
After undergoing a bi-lateral mastectomy and total hysterectomy followed by 2 full years of chemotherapy at only 40 years old, Penny became an advocate for women’s health. She is an active volunteer with the local American Cancer Society as well as serves on the board for the Friends of Memorial council that focuses on raising money for the Mary Ellen Locher Breast Cancer Center and Memorial’s two indigent care community medical centers.
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