Wired. MD Introduces Only Video-Intensive, Multi-Lingual Patient Education Portal
Health Literacy solution company introduces new product in family of digital media streaming products. Hospitals and physicians worldwide are adopting this technology for patient education.
(PRWEB) June 14, 2004
wired. MD, the leader in video patient education solutions, today introduced Patient Portal Internet health education site. Patient Portal breaks the language barrier in patient health literacy as the first to serve a culturally diverse patient population.
The new portal site, available only through physician prescription, includes the most comprehensive inventory of videos including 300 consumer health videos viewable in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Russian and Polish.
Designed for simplicity, Patient Portal is a single-paged site that includes graphical images of the body for searching information on ailments and displays all content in a single-screen format. Patient Portal is engineered in Flash, the most ubiquitously used technology for streaming media, fostering quick information loading times of 10 seconds on DSL and 60 seconds on dial-up.
“Patient Portal extends the combined power of video, audio and written learning to improve the health of virtually all patients, regardless of their native language,” said John Friess, wired. MD Vice President of Marketing. “Patient Portal offers both the patient and the medical community a solution for improving health education across a wide assortment of populations.”
The new site also features 1,300 text-based, health-related handouts available in three languages and links to more than 260 health-related websites including some bilingual in English and Spanish. Targeted at healthcare organizations and corporate-based health websites, Patient Portal extends the value of wired. MD to its customers with a solution that can improve or maintain a hospitalÂ’s JAHCO compliance related to serving non-English speaking patients.
Patient Portal also facilitates the administrative aspect of healthcare by integrating education and patient record tracking solution for Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Health Information Application (HIA) partners. The product features tracking capabilities that report on videos played, handouts printed, emails sent, and websites visited by users in real time.
Patient Portal is compatible with Internet Explorer 5.0, Netscape, Mozilla and Safari Internet browsers and operates with both broadband and dial-up services. wired. MD products are sold on a licensing and access basis; more information about pricing for Patient Portal can be obtained by contacting the company direct.
About wired. MD, Incorporated
Wired. MD, Inc. was founded in Portland, Oregon in March 2000. The company's mission is to empower healthcare professionals to improve patients' healthcare experience and reduce costs by making patient education more engaging, effective, and efficient to deliver. The companyÂ’s marquee product, streaMed streaming video education solution is currently used by 150 physician and hospital customers throughout the Unites States and viewed by patients in 150 countries.
Wired. MD is located at 317 S. W. Alder Street, Third Floor, Portland, Oregon, 97204, and can be contacted at (503) 889-0010, info@wired. md, or www. wired. md.
Wired. MD and the wired. MD logo are trademarks or registered trademarks, in the United States of wired. MD Corporation.
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