It’s rather unarguable at this point that 80% of health outcomes come from factors that are not clinical in nature. 80% of health outcomes come from social, environmental and physical/behavioral circumstances. What happens if incented communities work together to level up health before it comes to healthcare? What’s the ROI on that? Rick Brush, CEO of Wellville explains.

No one disputes the health benefits of walking. If you walk, you’re healthier than if you don’t. And populations who walk are healthier than populations who don’t. So walking matters if we’re going to affect population health in this country. But how do you get feet on the street? Today I talk to my dad, Fredric Richter, PhD about the matter.

On November 9th, I think many of us in the healthcare industry staggered backwards, clutching our foreheads and ever since have alternated between feeling like we’re hallucinating an alternative reality interspersed with acute episodes of dyspepsia. So let’s talk about the president elect and what’s likely to transpire with the ACA. Today I speak with Billy Wynne, who writes for Health Affairs and is the managing partner of Thorne Run Partners about five reasons the ACA won’t be repealed, with sidebars into MACRA, Medicaid and Medicare.

I told Michelle after our conversation that for every question I asked her, I crossed off three…but only because this is a 25 minute show and not a three hour Q&A marathon, which this interview easily could have turned into. Michelle is the chief marketing officer over at Welltok. Welltok’s customers are employers and payers mostly at this point. Amongst other things, they’ve developed the CafeWell Health Optimization Platform that uses artificial intelligence to deliver consumers personalized guidance and incentives to optimize their health.

Almost everybody these days is clued into the healthcare innovation Catch-22 – that is that no one will try or buy a healthcare innovation until it’s proven, but you can’t prove an innovation unless someone tries it and buys it. Today I speak with Laurance Stuntz, the director of the Mass eHealth Institute, about eHealth Institute’s work to foster collaboration and smooth out this unfortunate wrinkle.