SDCMS Partners With Health Butler
Health Butler is an online preventive health information organization founded by longtime San Diego County physicians Drs. Murray (SDCMS-CMA member since 1987) and Danielle Reicher, along with their medical student son, Joshua Reicher. Health Butler’s mission is to gather research-backed preventive health information and organize it to motivate and educate individuals to actively participate in their own preventive care. A web-based wellness decision support engine is provided at HealthButler.com that presents and tracks information in three general health categories: screenings, immunizations, and healthy habits. Health Butler fundamentally believes that the best healthcare can be affordable for all only if we also develop a culture of health literacy and personal responsibility.
Health Butler offers healthy living email reminders, personal health information tracking, and a variety of health tools to users registered with the site. These tools help both physicians and employers increase the fitness and prevention compliance of their employees and patients. Health Butler can provide physicians/employers with aggregate data about their associated enrollees, but does not collect personally identifiable information and will not spam or intentionally distribute any user-provided email address to any third parties.
Health Butler’s recommendations are based on referenced and credentialed material published by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as multiple recognized U.S. professional societies. Health Butler aims to work collaboratively with healthcare providers. The information we provide is intended only to inform individuals of reasonable guidelines in order to encourage discussion of recommended measures with a doctor. There is no advertising at the Health Butler website; instead users generally pay a subscription fee of $14.95 per year.
SDCM and Health Butler Collaborate to Offer a New and Exciting Free Member Benefit
Health Butler is launching a pilot program for up to 50 physicians wherein members can now enroll themselves, their employees, patients, and families with Health Butler for free. Participating physicians will receive a sponsor I.D. number that they can provide to their sponsored employees and patients to gain access to the free benefits. What are the benefits of this program for participants?
- For you, your family, and employees: You will receive a free subscription to Health Butler, including e-reminders of your recommended measures and a place to track your compliance history.
- Provided you have more than 15 sponsored enrollees, sponsor physicians will receive aggregate data that can tell you about the preventive health issues of your affiliated individuals. That means you will see compiled information to help you assess the wellness issues facing your population of patients and employees. Your sponsored enrollees will be more motivated to see you at appropriate intervals and stay healthy.
SDCMS member physicians who are interested in receiving this free benefit should email Dr. Reicher at admin@healthbutler.com to learn more.