Today I speak with Manik Baht about Healthify’s answer to helping vulnerable patients, patients who need other help beyond the strictly clinical, to get better outcomes.

There’s a downside to paper forms I hadn’t considered until I spoke with David Perez from Seamless Medical systems today – paper is uni-directional. There’s no chance for interaction, like to feed the patient useful information about wait times or relevant patient information. Nor is there any opportunity to customize the form to remove questions that are irrelevant – like if you’re a man getting asked if you’re pregnant or breast feeding.

Almost half of insured Americans get their healthcare coverage from their employers, that’s probably not a shocker. But did you know that for employees of larger companies, the employer is actually the insurance company? The employer will use an in quotes “regular” insurance company like United or Aetna as an administrator, but the employer itself is paying the bills and taking the risk. That fact comes with a whole host of ramifications and opportunities that I speak about today with Jeff Scott from the DHS Group.

DataMotion is a leader in the provider to provider secure messaging space, and now patients can sign up with DataMotion for their own accounts to join the conversation with their providers. Today I talk with Bob Jancek from DataMotion about the current and future of moving information between healthcare stakeholders.

Dr. Richard Munassi and the team over at DocResponse see the savvy internet healthcare consumer as ultimately a good thing – engaged patients have better outcomes after all. We should be doing everything we can to help patients engage better with better information.