Sureshow founder Dr. Shelley Cooper EdD tells the 4thEst8 that most of a $10,000 grant she landed for a pilot program launch will go to parent incentives, but a new app for the pilot is a lot like her existing technology. Her SureShow app helps doctors fill no-show appointments with billable tele-medicine visits. The new app, Come On Now, targets parents of preschoolers and is a lot simpler.
Shelley Cooper, SureShow CEO
“It’s just not necessarily restricted to tele-health for this endeavour,” Cooper said. “It still replaces open slots on the clinic schedule with either a tele-health visit, or scheduling a clinic visit or scheduling a mobile medical visit.”
The P-4 Challenge is an Health Resources and Services Administration funded collaborative effort between Swope Health Services in Kansas City and Mid-America Regional Council Head Start. The purpose is to encourage families to bring in their preschoolers for their early wellness visits, immunizations and lead testing prior to preschool and kindergarten. Cooper says her part came in making an app that is a simplified version of SureShow. If theHSRA likes the results, SureShow and it’s partners could qualify for a $25,000 Phase II grant this fall, and may see a nationwide push of the application.
This weekend Cooper is testing the new app, with a soft launch scheduled for Monday. She expects to start enrolling parents on Tuesday at Emmanuel Family Daycare in Kansas City, followed Wednesday in Excelsior Springs, Mo.
Founded in Kansas City, KS in Dec. 2019 SureShow Inc. sprang out of Cooper’s tele-health service business when she saw the need for an app to fill no-show doctors appointments with billable tele-medicine visits. She’s the only full time employee.
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