partners country united states headquarters 7844 woodland center blvd tampa florida formerly called better health network 1998 website http www.accenthealth.com accenthealth is a healthcare media company providing patient education at the point of care in physician waiting rooms . accenthealth s service currently reaches 30 000 medical offices and over 70 000 medical practitioners and features a doctor office waiting room television network with exclusive programming produced by cnn and co hosted by cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta and hln morning news anchor robin meade . accenthealth provides service at no costs to physician s offices and the service is supported by advertisers in the health and wellness categories . accenthealth was founded in tampa fl in 1995 by philip m. cohen and richard ruth . it was acquired by two private equity firms 1 m c partners and ridgemont equity partners formerly bank of america capital investors in 2008 from john malone s ascent media corp. the ceo of accenthealth is daniel stone formerly ceo of imaginova corp. accenthealth s healthy lifestyle programming 2 is designed to educate patients by exploring a variety of topics including medical breakthroughs condition specific segments parenting issues nutrition safety and wellness . accenthealth s programming has been recognized in multiple award categories by the health information resource center . 3 the company recently acquired two competing point of care networks in november 2012 it acquired the wallboard division of the havas impact group 4 and in february 2013 the in office television network of everwell . 5 in may 2013 accenthealth was a co founder of the point of care communication council poc3 . 6 on behalf of its healthcare media and information company members the poc3 advocates for the effective use of the point of care channel to advance health and healthcare outcomes . the company s website provides further information about their programming and as well as a list of members of its medical advisory board . references edit whitmire sarah pinckney . m c venture partners and banc of america capital investors acquire accenthealth pdf . retrieved 14 november 2013 . vega tanzina . accenthealth puts medical content on waiting room tvs . the new york times . retrieved 14 november 2013 . about the national health information awards . health information resource center . retrieved 14 november 2013 . accenthealth acquires havas impact . medical marketing & media . retrieved 14 november 2013 . accenthealth boosts digital reach with everwell buy . medical marketing & media . retrieved 14 november 2013 . rosen lori . top health media and information firms form point of care communication council pdf . retrieved 14 november 2013 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title accenthealth & oldid 664620506 categories companies established in 1995health care companies of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 29 may 2015 at 21 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view