Patient Edu's Patient Education System

An interactive computer-based educational delivery system to help patients learn.

Patients can learn about their medical conditions, recommended treatment options, and post-operative regimens. The system uses broadcast quality, full motion video and animated graphics to explain complicated medical conditions and procedures in a highly understandable and engaging format targeted to people with a 6th to 8th grade education. It's rich format, interactivity and scripting has proven to be highly effective in improving patient comprehension and retention.

Patient Edu is system-friendly.

Content can be delivered on any video-based or interactive television system including bedside computers, tablet PCs, kiosks. Even DVDs. What’s more, Patient Edu software can read HL-7/ADT feeds and can be integrated with all major EMR systems.

Patient Edu can now be viewed at home on the web.

Pre-admission and post-discharge, patients can now watch their assigned patient education content at home using the Patient Edu Home and Family Solution. Clinicians can assign patient education content in the hospital and have patients watch it at home. All patient use of the home solution is tracked in the hospital's Patient Edu SQL server database, so when the patient comes in for a follow-up visit, the nurse can check the patient report to see if the patient has watched the content and understood it. The Patient Edu Home and Family Solution is accessed on the hospital's website and gives the hospital a distinct marketing advantage.

Patient Edu is easy to learn, simple to use.

With just two clicks, a nurse can assign patient education content. Two more clicks provides access to check patient progress in real-time. Our built-in training tutorial gets nurses using the program in minutes.

Patient Edu's Patient Education may be customized for each patient.

A patient's program may be customized to include information relating to examination, diagnosis, treatment, pre-operative preparation, hospitalization as well as a recommended post-operative regimen that may include drug treatment, physical therapy, and life-style modification.

The programs may be used interactively to test patient understanding, document informed consent, gather health status and patient satisfaction data.

Patient Edu provides:

• Interactive clinical patient education programs
• Board certified education
• Over 30 hours of interactive video*
• Course validation through testing
• On-demand availability
• HIPAA Compliance

*Spanish translations in process

Printouts of the Cardiology content may be viewed or printed and handed to the patient.

Patient Edu's Patient Education System Documented Benefits:

• Proven to save Physicians and Nurses an average of 16 minutes per patient.¹
• Insurance companies are granting users of Patient Edu's Patient Education system significant discounts in their medical malpractice premiums.
• In a study of 137 hip replacement patients, patients who used Patient EDU’s Patient Education system experienced 31% fewer post-operative hip dislocations than those who did not use the system.²

¹ Massachusetts Institute of Behavioral Science Total Joint Replacement Study 1997

² Pentagon City Hospital Study 1997.

Patient Edu's Patient Education system modules are available for the following specialties with many more in development:

• Cardiology – over 70 topics including a full spectrum of diagnostic tests, conditions, procedures, and post-operative regimens.
• Chronic Pulmonary Diseases - over 30 topics dealing with Asthma
• Diabetes – over 60 topics focused on types of diabetes, diagnostic testing, treatment options, prevention, and lifestyle modifications.
• Orthopaedics – over 300 topics including a wide range of orthopedic diseases, injuries, procedures, and physical therapy exercises.
• Otolaryngology - over 140 topics including laryngectomy, gastric pull-up, neck dissection, maxillectomy, transoral cavity & oropharynx resection, mandibulotomy, mandibulectomy, parotidectomy, thyroidectomy, skin cancer, skull base surgery, flaps, and tracheotomy covering anatomy, diagnosis, treatment, recovery and lifestyle modification
• Men’s Health – over 100 topics dealing with diseases of the male reproductive tract, prostate and testicular cancer, diagnostic testing, treatments, recovery, and more.
• Stroke - over 30 topics including diagnosis, diagnostic tests, treatment, recovery and lifestyle modification
• Women’s Health – over 200 topics detailing gynecological and obstetric tests, conditions, treatments, and wellness regimens as well as pre-natal and post-natal information.

Our patient education information is based on national standards of care from nationally recognized organizations. In the cardiovascular service line, for instance, this includes such organizations as the ACC, AHA, STS, Heart Rhythm Society and others. A multi-disciplinary committee of physician and nurse content experts and educators review and approve each script. In addition, our institutional content developers report outcomes yearly related to current care practices.

The system is also available with ExitCare® Patient Education printable discharge instructions in multiple languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Vietnamese.