Wellness

Thrive 4-7: Teaching Wellness Skills

June 2, 2015 Janet Kennedy 3 Comments

Do companies and corporations finally get the importance of wellness programs for their employees? Connie Mester is betting her startup on the idea that they are. She has taken 16 years of experience in healthcare and health insurance to found a company focused on helping individuals learn how to achieve emotional wellness. That may sound esoteric but their work is based on evidence based medicine that fills a gap in emotional health support. Thrive 4-7’s first product is Mevii – a mobile tool to teach and support personal skills to manage wellness. Listen to our conversation or drop in to the time stamps below.

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Meet Connie Mester
02:38 An educational potpourri
04:10 A gap in emotional health support
04:56 Learning how to deal with stress
06:10 What is Thrive 4-7
06:20 Mind-Body Connection
07:29 Research based application to teach skills
09:29 Wearables
12:09 Mevii
12:27 Designed for the individual
15:35 Cognitive behavioral therapy
19:50 Mobile and privacy
21:28 Female Audience “Who knew!”
23:10 Future plans for Seniors & Adolescents
23:50 Journaling
29:20 Building a wellness ecosystem
31:05 Always in beta
37:45 Can an individual sign up?
38:20 Business model
38:44 Growth plan
40:13 What does Thrive 4-7 mean?
41:55 What does Mevii mean?
43:20 Social media tip: Dr. David Stukus

Patients Like Me: Sally Okun

March 31, 2015 Janet Kennedy 00:41:06 1 Comment

Patients Like Me is a health data-sharing platform that is transforming the way patients manage their own conditions. Sally Okun, VP Advocacy, Policy & Patient Safety at Patients Like Me visited Get Social Health to talk about how they want to change the way industry conducts research and improve patient care. The numbers of PatientsLikeMe.com are impressive:

300,000 members
2,300+ conditions
50+ published research studies
25 million data points about disease

Numbers aside, Sally shared the Patients Like Me mission to help patients connect in a peer-to-peer network. Through their mutual sharing and support patients can also share their personal health data with researchers and pharma companies to help find health solutions and improve outcomes. Listen to the podcast or catch specific moments by following the time stamps below:

00:00 Introduction
00:50 Patients online
02:15 “Dr. Google: What is “Patients Like Me?
05:00 Getting from Patients Like Me to medical research
05:58 Results: Epilepisy seizure metering
06:50 How do patients share their data with their physicians?
08:01 Are physicians using this data?
08:50 Seeking balance of data overwhelm vs. data useability
11:50 320,000 patients in database, 40,000 Multiple Sclerosis patients
13:15 Participation in pharma research
15:58 Patient benefit for participating in Patients Like Me
18:15 Impact of “connectedness”
18:37 Caregivers in Patients Like Me
21:43 Moderation by clinical specialists?
26:50 Persona based design for PatientsLikeMe.com community
25:32 Closed community sharing or social sharing?
28:05 Hospital private communities compared to Patients Like Me
30:38 What are the biggest misconceptions about online patient communities?
33:15 HIPAA
33:30 Is Patients Like Me growing?
35:50 Wellness apps
36:30 Demographics of Patients Like Me
38:45 Patient sharing is critical
40:05 Social Media Tip: Phyllis Khare “4 Ways to increase your online reach”

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The Yoga Nurse Annette Tersigni

February 17, 2015 Janet Kennedy 00:35:59 0 Comments

It’s not often you’ll hear the expression “I felt a calling” when someone tells you why they became a medical practitioner. In the case of Annette Tersigni, it happened when she was in a yoga class for health professionals. After participating in a class with stressed out, overworked nurses, she realized she needed to share her knowledge of yoga with them – by becoming a nurse herself. At age 48 she attended nursing school and in 2005 launched The Yoga Nurse program.

What is Yoga Nursing? Yoga Nursing® is a new brand, trend & movement in health care, nursing and yoga created by Annette Tersigni, holistic RN, stress relief, back safety expert and medical yoga therapist. Yoga Nursing unites the ancient wisdom of yoga with the modern science of nursing. Its mission is to train and create a global army of modern nightingales, yoga nurses, who will learn and teach the Yoga Nursing Sacred Remedy— in order to enlighten the ailing health care system and relieve stress, anxiety, pain and suffering for both nurses and their patients.

Listen in to the conversation or jump into the conversation at the time stamps below.

00:00 Introduction
00:40 Meet Annette Tersigni
01:08 Yoga, Yoga, Yoga
02:15 A Calling for Yoga Nursing
02:45 5,000 year of yoga
04:10 (we really did mention Yoda!)
04:32 Taking a class from Deepak Chopra
05:19 Which came first – the Yoga or the Nursing?
06:50 The marriage of yoga & nursing
08:45 Taught 5,000 sessions
09:28 Foot behind head is not required
10:25 What is Yoga Nursing like in the clinical setting?
13:20 Duke Cardiologist – Dr. Mitchell Krucoff TEDxRTP Speaker & the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences
15:09 Energy in the room
17:10 A movement whose time has come
20:20 Evangelizing Yoga Nursing
22:25 Approved by AANC
24:50 Carry on plan?
26:30 “The Yoda of Yoga Nursing”
28:00 When should Yoga be used?
32:00 “Quantified Self” – Dr. Bertalan Meskó & Yoga. Are they compatible?
35:00 Social Media Tip: Jackie Ryder, “Good Content drives action”

The Yoga Nurse Twitter

Annette Tersigni’s LinkedIn page

The Yoga Nurse Website

The Yoga Nurse Facebook page

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From Corporate Stress to Wellness Entrepreneur

September 16, 2014 Janet Kennedy 00:25:32 0 Comments

Population health discussions often revolve around breaking the chain of illness by focusing on wellness. Many innovations in patient wellness are being driven by entrepreneurs and startups. One such entrepreneur is Farnoosh Brock. She recently served as a judge at Triangle Startup Weekend Health where we caught up on her entrepreneurial journey that led her to her founding her company Prolific Living.
To drop in on specific parts of our conversation, refer to the time stamp below:

00:00 Welcome
00:43 Introduction to Farnoosh Brock
01:30 Judge for Triangle Startup Weekend
02:40 Holistic Health
03:02 Wellness concepts
04:02 “Too busy to be well?”
04:50 “If you don’t make time for wellness now, you’ll need to make time for illness later.”
05:58 Look at your life – What can you eliminate?
07:00 Transition from corporate world
08:20 Juicing
09:10 Publishing “The Health Juicers Bible”
10:00 Building an online community
11:10 BlogWorld (Now NMX – New Media Expo)
13:35 Engaging with online community
15:08 Relationships were key to building online business
16:45 Dealing with patient/health questions
20:00 Victim mentality helps no one.
22:18 Positive thinking and health outlook
24:00 Love yourself first
24:45 Social Media Tip: Dr. Gia Sison “Responsible Tweeting”

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