Episode 78: How to Stop Torturing Patients with Piles of Paper Forms with David Perez from Seamless Medical Systems
February 11, 201634:21

Episode 78: How to Stop Torturing Patients with Piles of Paper Forms with David Perez from Seamless Medical Systems

David Perez is the founder and CEO of Seamless Medical Systems and the inventor of the innovative SNAP Practice patient engagement platform. He is a successful and creative entrepreneur who has been working in the Internet industry for 20 + years. Throughout his career David has been at the forefront of innovation and change. In the early ‘90s he started working in the new field of internet marketing, 1999 founded a digital Hispanic marketing company and 2011 saw the opportunity to bring medical practice waiting rooms into the 21st century creating SNAP on the iPad.

Prior to Seamless Medical Systems David started a number of New York City based businesses including: Lumina Americas a digital marketing agency serving the US Hispanic and Latin American markets; Latin Force Ventures a internet incubator and The Latin Force Group a US Hispanic focused marketing services company. He has worked with a variety of clients including: Kraft Foods, Nickelodeon Networks, MTV, The NFL, Nike, Wells Fargo Bank and others. Before entering the world of marketing David spent 10 years in the investment management industry with Dean Witter Reynolds and Wells Fargo Asset Management.

David has been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences and recently spoke at TEDx Acequia Madre and IdeaMensch. He also gave the 2007 commencement address to the University of Vermont School of Business.

David is a graduate of the University of Vermont .


00:00 David discusses incorporating iPads into Doctors’ offices.
02:30 “To replace quill and parchment with 21st Century technology.”
03:30 The redundancy issue that can actually be very costly and inconvenient for both patients and providers by using paper as a capture device for patient data.
05:00 Why modern medical practices are still using paper forms to gather patient data.
10:45 How price transparency in a consumer-facing society is becoming a necessity for clinics and providers.
17:40 David explains Seamless Medical Systems and the services that the company offers.
20:50 The issue of paper forms as “unidirectional” and how Seamless Medical Systems is offering a multi-directional alternative.
24:00 David’s advice to provider offices wanting to manage the transition from paper forms to Seamless Medical Systems program.
25:00 How EMRs have created bumps in the road for Seamless Medical Systems.
26:00 Seamless Medical Systems’ training and proficiency program.
26:50 “It’s as easy as working an iPhone.”
27:50 What Seamless Medical Systems looks like functionally.
33:00 “There’s a very big difference between being busy and being productive.”
34:15 You can find out more at seamlessmedical.com or email David at David@seamlessmedical.com.

healthcare,health,marketing,seamless medical systems,
|
|

Episode Support Provided By

Special Thanks to Our 2026 Sustaining Monthly Donors

Marilyn Bartlett, Kimberly Carleson, Dylan Yahn, Benjamin Light, Matt McQuideAnn Kempski, Spencer Allen, Scott Tromanhauser, 
Steven Elkins, Matthew Bunte, and Lori Smith.

Recent Episodes

EP519: The Current State of Primary Care—Inevitable or Fixable? With Lisa Rosenbaum, MD
Relentless Health ValueJuly 08, 2026
519
40:0036.61 MB

EP519: The Current State of Primary Care—Inevitable or Fixable? With Lisa Rosenbaum, MD

Listen on Your Favorite App Hello, all you Relentless Tribe members. Today, let's start here. Right now, we are watching a very visible exodus of brilliant, consummate primary care (and other, honestly) physicians leaving traditional practice for concierge medicine or otherwise. For a full transcrip...

EP518: How Do You Explain the Difference Between an ASO Vendor and a TPA? With Claire Brockbank
Relentless Health ValueJuly 01, 2026
518
14:2513.2 MB

EP518: How Do You Explain the Difference Between an ASO Vendor and a TPA? With Claire Brockbank

Listen on Your Favorite App Dr. Alex Sommers: Hi. I'm Alex Sommers. I'm president of Astia Health, an advanced direct primary care organization, an emergency medicine and lifestyle medicine physician, as well as a licensed employer health plan advisor from Wisconsin. I'm curious how you explain the ...

EP517: The Business of Prior Auths: The 401-Level Financial Motive Behind Prior Auths
Relentless Health ValueJune 24, 2026
517
27:2325.07 MB

EP517: The Business of Prior Auths: The 401-Level Financial Motive Behind Prior Auths

Listen on Your Favorite App Hello, Relentless Health Value Tribe. Welcome to it. So, yeah … last week, I had a great conversation with Ophelia Johnson ( EP516 ) that is a companion show, I would say, to this one. So, listen to that one first. Listen to this one first. You do you. For a full transcri...

EP516: GLP-1s and Cash Pay From the Pharma Manufacturer Point of View, With Ophelia Johnson
Relentless Health ValueJune 17, 202644:0540.35 MB

EP516: GLP-1s and Cash Pay From the Pharma Manufacturer Point of View, With Ophelia Johnson

Listen on Your Favorite App Hello, all you Relentless Tribe members. Welcome to it. Today we have a show that will bend your mind in new directions. And yes, I have a head cold at a very weird time of year. I have trouble apparently doing things like normal people. Anyway, we talk a lot on this podc...

EP515: SNF (Skilled Nursing Facility) Fraud—Or Is It Fraud? With Michelle Cera, PhD
Relentless Health ValueJune 10, 202643:0739.47 MB

EP515: SNF (Skilled Nursing Facility) Fraud—Or Is It Fraud? With Michelle Cera, PhD

Listen on Your Favorite App Hello, all you Relentless Tribe members. Lately, I have been just obsessed with what's hiding in plain sight: the root cause glitches in how American healthcare is built. Not the symptoms now. Not the noise. The actual ground zero. I mean, what we call healthcare in this ...

EP514: Successfully Suing a Health System for Their Anticompetitive Contracts and Also Collecting Damages for Plan Sponsors and Members, With Matt Cantor
Relentless Health ValueJune 03, 2026
514
43:4340.02 MB

EP514: Successfully Suing a Health System for Their Anticompetitive Contracts and Also Collecting Damages for Plan Sponsors and Members, With Matt Cantor

Listen on Your Favorite App Hello, all you Relentless Tribe members. This is the third episode in our legal goings-on trifecta, starting with Doug Aldeen in episode 512 covering what amounts to the main reasons plan sponsors wind up suing their brokers or employee benefit consultants. For a full tra...

EP513: Revisiting Cunning Anticompetitive Hospital Contracts, With Brennan Bilberry

EP513: Revisiting Cunning Anticompetitive Hospital Contracts, With Brennan Bilberry

Listen on Your Favorite App If you are a large employer, union funds broker, fiduciary, or anyone responsible for a health plan that spends half of its dollars on hospital care (which most do), or if you have anything to do with policy or enforcement of policy, yeah … listen this week and next week....

Listen and Follow

Sponsored by Aventria Health Group
©2026 BD Bridges LLC. All Rights Reserved.