What Does Patient Edu Offer?
- An engaging interactive audio/visual education system that uses video narration, animation and clinical imagery to explain in lay-person's terms, a patient's condition and treatment.
- Content authored and reviewed by physicians/clinicians from the nation’s leading institutions.
- A database-driven library of instructional segments that allows providers to tailor specific segments to the needs of individual patients.
- An interactive delivery system that tracks usage, compliance and understanding.
- A flexible technology platform that can be used in a hospital, physician’s office or a patient’s home.
Who Is Patient Edu?
Patient Edu is a leading developer and marketer of patient education software programs for healthcare providers.
Patient
EDU's products aim to enhance patient/provider communication
throughout the continuum of care. From the waiting room to the
exam
room, during pre-op, post-op and beyond, Patient Edu's programs
promote understanding, consent, compliance and recovery.
The Patient Edu Interactive Delivery Software is easy to learn and simple to use. With just two clicks, a nurse can assign patient education content to a patient. Two more clicks provides access to check patient progress in real-time. Our built-in training tutorial gets nurses using the program in minutes.
Our Patient Education Philosophy
A well-informed patient impacts the continuum of care.
Patient Edu understands the many challenges facing the health care delivery system. Significant among them is the education of patients before, during and after treatment. The incentives to improve patient education are evident throughout the care delivery system. First and foremost is the opportunity to match patient expectations to care delivery. A patient who fully understands the procedure(s) he or she is about to undergo and what is required of them, becomes a partner in the process. Patient understanding helps reduce medical errors, improves outcomes and increases patient safety; the benefits are evident throughout the healthcare continuum.
Patient Edu provides a step-by-step approach to patient education
and one that works in tandem with your existing processes. By adding
new levels of efficiency to patient education, the Patient Edu
system frees up your nurses resulting in improved staff satisfaction
and retention.
Educational Content
We begin with engaging board certified interactive patient education in video format. Then, we deliver it using easy-to-use software that tracks compliance, while saving nursing time and providing performance measurement data.
Patient Edu reduces:
- Clinical administrative costs
- Risk of litigation
- Complications due to lack of patient understanding
- Calls to physicians and follow-up care
Educational Awards
Patient Edu's programs have been awarded the American Medical Association's prestigious "Freddie Award" for Excellence in Patient Education, the highest form of recognition that can be received for such a program.
Patient Edu's Leadership and Production Team
Patient Edu's management team and board of directors
are made up of individuals with extensive leadership experience in the
healthcare
industry including corporate, clinical, and institutional settings.
Patient
Edu's award winning production team operates with integrated
scripting, design, illustration, videography, medical animation, programming
and editing
capabilities.
Patient Edu's Partners
ExitCare® Patient Instructions in multiple languages including Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Vietnamese. ExitCare's over 1700 printable documents can now accessed, as an option, from inside the PatientEdu software delivery system.
The LodgeNetRX™ Interactive Patient Television System provides healthcare facilities with an end-to-end interactive solution that will bring new life to your television system and turn good patient experiences into great ones.
LodgeNet
CEO Scott Peterson interviewed on
CNBC - 4/4/07
