Health Care

60th Anniversary of the Birth Control Pill and You

 
 
Dr. Lakeisha Richardson, a leading Ob/Gyn based in Mississippi and a paid spokesperson for the maker of Lo Loestrin® Fe joins eHealth Radio and the Health News and Pregnancy Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Lakeisha Richardson discuss the following:
Why is it important to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the birth control pill this year?
How do women decide what oral contraceptive is right for them?
When will one be able to get pregnant if they stay on birth control for a long time?
How does somone get birth control if their annual appointment has been postponed?
What should one do if they miss a dose of their birth control pill?

Dr. Lakeisha Richardson, MD, FACOG is a leading obstetrician/gynecologist and women’s health expert based in Mississippi and a paid spokesperson for the maker of Lo Loestrin® Fe.
Website: www.Loloestrin.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/LoLoestrinFe  Instagram: instagram.com/loloestrinferx

How can you be sure you aren’t overpaying your medical bills? A Medical Claims Advocate can help you!

 
 
Susan Null, principal at Systemedic, Inc. a nationally recognized medical claims advocate based in New York joins eHealth Radio and the Healthcare and Health News Channels. Null and her company use their decades of experience detecting medical billing errors, inconsistencies, and unethical practices along with their hands-on coding and billing knowledge to ensure that consumers pay only for legitimate medical expenses.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Susan Null discuss the following:
What is a medical claims advocate?
Why do people seek out your services?  Why are those services needed?
What services do you provide as a medical claims advocate?
When someone receives a medical bill, what steps should he/she take to ensure that the bill is correct?
Given the Covid-19 healthcare crisis, are there any specific billing issues that people should be concerned about?

Sue Null is a principal at Systemedic, Inc. and brings more than 30 years’ experience in marketing and client service to the table. She has spent the last 14 years providing front-line support to the company’s medical billing and advocacy clients, focusing on negotiating with insurers and medical facilities and spearheading communications with insurance companies on behalf of her clients.
As the daughter of and sister to a general surgeon, pathologist, and orthopedic surgeon, Sue brings a lifetime of inside exposure to medicine, an insight used every day as she advocates for her clients. Her BA from the University of Pennsylvania, along with her early-career experience in public relations and marketing, provide the framework for advocacy efforts.
 
 
 
Website: www.get-meducated.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/SystemedicInc  Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/systemedic-inc  Twitter: twitter.com/SystemedicInc

How to Reach Mental Health Clients During the Pandemic

 
 
Avivit Fisher, the principal of REdD Strategy, a marketing consultancy that helps therapists to launch and grow their private practices joins eHealth Radio and the Health Marketing and Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Avivit Fisher discuss the following:
What do you see happening right now, during this pandemic, with mental health needs?
What challenges can you see right now for therapists in private practice in terms of attracting clients?
What mindset do you think that therapists need to adopt right now?
In your opinion, do therapists and counselors need to become tech-savvy now? 
What would you recommend to start doing immediately to start reaching more people that need help?

Avivit Fisher is a Marketing Coach and a principal at REdD Strategy, an agency that helps therapists to launch and grow their private practices. Avivit shows therapists how to master marketing and reach more people who really need help. She helps her clients create and deliver a marketing message that connects them to people's needs and converts them to clients.
 
 
Website: www.reddstrategy.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/reddstrategy  Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/reddstrategy  Twitter: twitter.com/reddstrategy

Health is Wealth: Covid-19 and the intersection of Public Health and Economic Wellbeing

 
 
Jack Plotkin, the CEO of Cardinal Solutions, a boutique advisory and investment firm based in New York City that has worked with firms across the healthcare, life sciences, consumer, and real estate sectors joins eHealth Radio and the Healthcare and Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Jack Plotkin discuss the following:
What's the nature of your background in healthcare?
Did you see the COVID-19 pandemic coming?
Do you think governments have taken the appropriate action to combat COVID-19?
What can individuals do to maintain their physical and psychological safety in this environment?
What about the economic fallout?
Do you have any final tips to help us stay healthy?

Jack Plotkin is the CEO of Cardinal Solutions, a boutique advisory and investment firm based in New York City. With an appetite for knowledge and a drive for success, Jack Plotkin has continuously found himself at the forefront of emerging technologies and industry change.
Jack has spent nearly 20 years working with healthcare companies and almost seven years in the cauldron of healthcare’s technological advancements. In that time, he has become a recognized industry thought leader and a driving force behind cutting edge healthcare technologies having advised more than a hundred Fortune 500 firms across all major industries.
Website: www.cardinalsol.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/jack.plotkin.1  Twitter: twitter.com/realjackplotkin

Oral Care and COVID-19 with Dr. Charles Sutera

 
 
Dr. Charles Sutera, the Founder of Aesthetic Smile Reconstruction, a leader in delivering advanced multidisciplinary dentistry again joins eHealth Radio and the Cosmetic Dental and Health News Channels. Dr. Sutera discusses safe guidelines and best bets for taking good care of our teeth during COVID-19.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Charles Sutera discuss the following:
First of all, what is the best daily care routine people should be engaging in to keep their teeth at their healthiest?
What can people due in lieu of their regular cleaning and checkups? Are there any at-home substitutes for this important regular care?
What about aesthetics? Are there things we can do to keep our smiles bright and white as well?
What are guidelines for when to seek dental care? Is there a list of symptoms or signs that indicates urgent care is needed?
There have been so many warnings to keep your hands away from your mouth and face. Can you tell us why this is so important?

Dr. Charles Sutera DMD, FAGD, is the Founder of Aesthetic Smile Reconstruction, and is a leader in delivering advanced multidisciplinary dentistry. He has completed post graduate education programs in the fields of dental anesthesiology, smile aesthetics, dental implantology, TMJ and oral surgery. Dr. Sutera is board certified in moderate parenteral sedation by the Massachusetts Dental Board. He completed the coveted Aesthetic Advantage program at New York University which is recognized as a leader in veneers, smile makeovers, and facial aesthetics training.
Dr. Sutera has also earned the distinguished designation of Fellow in the Academy of General Dentistry (FAGD) and is recognized in the dentistry field as a leader, exemplifying to other dentists the importance of quality continuing dental education.
Dr. Sutera completed his implant training at the Whitecap Surgical Center in Salt Lake City, extensive periodontal training at the GIDE Institute, and has trained in 3rd molar surgery. He continues to maintain certification in proficiency by the Academy of Laser Dentistry, and is a recognized Invisalign provider. He strives to make treatment a comforting process, encourages patient involvement, and is meticulous in achieving the highest level of results. He attended Gettysburg College where he earned the prestigious Presidential Scholarship each year of attendance. He studied dentistry at Tufts School of Dental Medicine, and after graduating he has practiced in Portland, Boston, and Waltham, MA.
 
 
Website: aestheticsmilereconstruction.com
Other Links: Blog: aestheticsmilereconstruction.com/blog  Facebook: facebook.com/aestheticsmilereconstruction

Unlocking the body's secrets, not drugging them down!

 
 
Claire Dunkley who is on a mission to educate as many healthcare professionals in ANF Therapy so that more people can become pain-free and live full and happy lives joins eHealth Radio and the Health News and Pain Management Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Claire Dunkley discuss the following:
The current healthcare system appears to focus health solutions on treating symptoms through either prescription pain-killers or through surgery. One of your foundation principles is working on the source of an issue. Can you explain how this works? 
Albert Einstein said that everything is energy, and that matching the frequency of the energy of what we wanted would see it materialise – it’s the basis of physics. Can you tell me how this works in regards to the human body?
So based off that everything is energy in the body, how does that impact the nine levels of health dysfunction you described?
So, the world-renowned Dr Mikel HG Hoff, PhD who specialises in the nervous system and the body’s biochemistry reactions invented and developed the ANF discs. What exactly is ANF Therapy and how does it work?
Claire, you are the first fully qualified ANF practitioner in Australia and have improved the lives of 500+ clients in the first 18 months of your clinic opening. How did you originally hear about it and what made you decide to go all the way in the education path?

With over 20 years’ experience in the healthcare industry, Claire has seen the best and worse of it (she believes the healthcare system itself is sick). Healthcare today is focused on symptom management with a ‘cut and drug’ approach (ie - surgeons cut the pain out, BIG Pharma masks any pain that remains). Claire strongly believes this focus needs to shift to treating the true cause of the problem and empower people to do the best for their body and health.
Claire nursed both her parents through their battle with HIV / Aids in the late 1980’s and 90’s. Seeing first-hand the damage pharmaceuticals can have on the body when symptoms are treated over causes.
She watched her parents endure years of side effects from the drugs that were supposed to be helping them, only to have them withdraw from ALL treatments to ensure her parents had some quality of life before their deaths.
Claire then went on to be a Clinical leader in the Victorian healthcare system and furthered her studies in radiology, gastroenterology, liver transplantation, orthopaedics, nurse and bed management with a strong focus on patient advocacy.
As the years went by, she witnessed more and more the adverse effects that a ‘cut and drug’ approach was having on the patients in her care. Her focus then became on finding a better solution.
In 2017, she found that solution – ANF (Amino Neuro Frequency) Therapy medical devices and dedicated the next two years to become Oceania’s first fully qualified ANF Practitioner. She established a holistic clinic to treat Clients with this specialty technology as well as an academy to train other healthcare Practitioners the advanced skills to apply ANF therapy to their patients.
Website: www.cluzie.com Facebook: facebook.com/cluzieclinic

Common household products and toiletries harming our hormones

 
 
Dr. Mel Schottenstein, a Naturopathic Doctor at Tutera Medical that offers both Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy as well as a Toxic Hormone Detox Program joins eHealth Radio and the Health News Channel. She has training in Swiss Biological Medicine, Integrative Oncology and Regenerative Medicine.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Mel Schottenstein discuss the following:
Is it true that many common household products and toiletries could actually be harming our hormones?
How can we find out if are being exposed to these toxic hormones?
Do people tend to feel symptomatic when they are exposed?
Why is it so important to eliminate these foreign hormones?
How do we get rid these endocrine disrupting chemicals?

Dr. Mel Schottenstein is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio and studied Women, Gender, Sexuality, and History of Science and Medicine at Harvard University for her undergraduate degree. Interested in learning skills of medical mediation and to promote cultural competency amongst health care providers, she completed a Master’s degree in Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. Subsequently, Dr. Mel acquired a Naturopathic Medical Degree at Bastyr University in WA. While in school, Dr. Mel received additional training in Biological Medicine under the direct tutelage of Dr. Thomas Rau, Chief Medical Director of the Paracelsus Clinic, Switzerland. Additionally, she completed training in Neural therapy, Biofeedback, Homeopathy, Naturopathic Oncology, BHRT, Botanical Medicine, Environmental Medicine, and IV Therapy.
Post-graduation, Dr. Mel entered a Masters of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine program as well as a Masters in Ayurvedic Medicine. She has received training in Medical Aesthetics from the National Laser Institute and the National Institute for Medical Aesthetics. Dr. Mel became certified as a Wahls Protocol Health Professional and is receiving post-doctoral training in Functional Neurology from the Carrick Institute. Dr Mel completed post-graduate certification as a Swiss Biological Medicine Provider from the Swiss Biological Medicine Academy. Her training at Swiss Biomed concluded with a one-on-one internship with Dr. Thomas Rau in Switzerland. While in Europe, Dr. Mel received training in use of the Weber Endolaser in Germany and PRGF therapies from the Biotechnology Institute in Spain. Dr. Mel has also completed the Integrative Cancer Therapy Fellowship from the American Academy of Anti-aging Medicine (A4M).  She is currently pursuing training on Peptide Therapy for various regenerative purposes.

 
 
Website: tuteramedical.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/TuteraMedical Twitter: @TuteraMedical
The beliefs, views, ideas, thoughts and opinions expressed on any program are those of the persons appearing on the program and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the eHealth Radio Network

Making Workplace Wellness Work for You

 
 
Pearce Fleming, President of StayWell, a health empowerment company that uses the science of behavior change and technology-driven programs to help people live healthier, happier lives joins eHealth Radio and the Health News Channel.
For more than 40 years, StayWell has been a pioneer in employee well-being solutions that lower health risks, increase program engagement, and reduce costs for large businesses and public sector clients everywhere.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Pearce Fleming discuss the following:
How has your own personal health journey impacted how you lead in business at StayWell?
What do you consider the most important elements that can help motivate individuals in making lasting changes to their health?
What is novel about StayWell in its approach to helping participants change their health and wellness?
What role do you believe patient education plays in terms of helping individuals take an active role in their health?
Wellness means so much more now than just healthy living, what is the impact of things like meditation, stress reduction, and proper sleep on an individual’s overall health?

As President of StayWell, a health care innovation organization, Pearce Fleming oversees operations, implementation, client service and product management across all of StayWell’s solutions and markets. He has more than 20 years of health care industry experience, and works with employers, health systems and payers to manage population health.
When he's not championing the latest health care investment or sharing the latest research outcomes with clients, you may spot him running across your town in his own personal journey for improved health and well-being.
 
 
Website: www.staywell.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/TheStayWellCompany  Twitter: @StayWellCompany

The importance of people-led design in Digital Health

 
 
Guy Cooper, Managing Director of Wave Digital, an app development company in Melbourne, Australia joins eHealth Radio and the Health News and Technology Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Guy Cooper discuss the following:
Can you tell me a bit about yourself and your role at Wave Digital?
What’s your involvement in Australia’s digital health industry?
What is people-led design and why is it important?
Can you provide some practical examples of apps you have designed including the impact of a people-led design approach?
What is your advice to digital health startups looking to develop an app?
Tip: If you are thinking of developing an app, make sure you put time and energy into understanding the target audience for your product. The better you understand users frustrations, needs and fears, the more useful your product will be and therefore the more likely it will succeed.
Guy Cooper is Managing Director of Wave Digital, an app development company in Melbourne, Australia. A business owner and tech entrepreneur, Guy works with founders, executives and fellow business owners to bring their app idea to life. After spending a decade in business and a decade in technology, Guy knows how to use apps to drive business growth and improve lives.
Guy started his career as an accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He later moved into the tech industry as Chief Financial Accountant of 99designs (and the broader Sitepoint Group). Under his financial oversight, 99designs grew from a team of 5 to over 100, culminating in a $35m financing round from Accel Partners. Since 2013, he has successfully owned and managed Wave Digital, an app development company that has delivered custom software to Startups, Business and Government for the past 19 years. In 2019, Wave Digital has been ranked the Top Melbourne App Developer by Clutch, a premier ratings and reviews platform for B2B service providers.
Throughout his career, Guy has worked with a wide array of businesses in a variety of industries from healthcare, education, transport and property development to agriculture, hospitality, book publishing and world-wide ‘.com’ technology companies. He uses this breadth of experience to provide refreshing advice and industry insights that make people want him as their adviser, partner and mentor.
Guy is a Chartered Accountant, jazz enthusiast, Dad and French language student (not in that order).
 
 
Website: wavedigital.com.au
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/wavedigitalaus  Twitter: @wavedigitalaus

Open Enrollment what you need to know

 
 
Jan Dubauskas, Vice President and Senior Counsel at HIIQ, a leading developer and distributor of affordable, web-based individual health insurance plans and ancillary products joins eHealth Radio and the Health Insurance and Health News Channels to discuss the importance of Open Enrollment.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Jan Dubauskas discuss the following:
What is open enrollment for benefits and what are the key dates?
What kinds of health insurance plans are available under open enrollment?
What happens if I decide not to enroll in a health insurance plan?
How does one learn more about available health insurance plans if they do not have one supplied by their employer?
What are 2 or 3 things consumers should look for when selecting a health insurance plan?

Jan Dubauskas is Vice President and Senior Counsel at Health Insurance Innovations, Inc. (NASDAQ:HIIQ), a leading cloud-based technology platform and distributor of affordable individual and family health insurance and supplemental plans. Ms. Dubauskas has more than ten years of experience managing legal and compliance for life and health insurance carriers. Prior to joining HIIQ in February 2019, she served as General Counsel for IHC Specialty Benefits, Inc., a member of The IHC Group whose carriers provide individual and supplemental health insurance. At IHC, she managed many of the company’s operations including legal and compliance and regularly interacted with both federal and state agencies.
Ms. Dubauskas previously served as General Counsel and Secretary for Oxford Life Insurance Company, an insurance carrier focused on providing life, health and annuity products to the senior market. Ms. Dubauskas earned her law degree from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University where she was a Pedrick Scholar. She achieved the LOMA designation Associate, Insurance Regulatory Compliance (AIRC) certificate and is a licensed life and health insurance producer in Arizona.
She is a renowned expert and has been on Fox News and quoted in top publications.
 
 
Websites: hiiq.com | agilelifeinsurance.com | agilehealthinsurance.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/healthinsuranceinnovations  Twitter: @HIIQInc