MEDITECH
Patient Education
product brief

MEDITECH's Patient Education application teaches patients and the community about common medical diagnoses, treatments, medications, and care. Patient Education is comprised of two complementary products: Patient-Centered Education and General Diagnosis Education. The Patient-Centered Education product presents medical information specific to a patient's diagnosis, while the General Diagnosis Education product allows a health care organization to provide generic medical information to the community. The browser-based, self-guided application is accessible through an organization's intranet or Internet Web site.

Highlights:
   • Information is quickly accessible from any location with Internet access, including physicians’ offices and the patient’s home
   • Patient-Centered Education includes information on over 30 of the most common diagnoses, while passwords allow patients to access only those diagnoses which are relevant to them
   • General Diagnosis Education serves as a medical resource to an entire community, allowing local health organizations to function as the main point-of-contact for information online
   • User-friendly features include animated movies, easy-to-read graphics, and closed-captioning for the hearing impaired
   • Helps organizations meet JCAHO patient education requirements.

Patient-Centered Education
The Patient-Centered Education content provides patients with the most necessary information to teach them about their medical conditions and treatments. A care provider enters the patient's condition(s) into a brief, on-line profile. The clinical profile then compiles information specific to the patient's condition(s) and treatment, including procedures and tests the patient will undergo, medications to be administered, and any post-visit care. This product ends the search for diagnosis-related information by patients. When more informed about their conditions, patients are less anxious, more involved in their treatments, and heal faster.

Standard Features

Information on Common Diagnoses
MEDITECH's Patient Education application provides information on more than thirty leading diagnoses. The following is a sample of some of the diagnoses provided:
• Angina
• Asthma
• Cerebral Vascular Accident
• Cholecystectomy
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Diabetes Type 1
• Diabetes Type 2
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Deep Vein Thrombosis
• Hypertension
• Myocardial Infarction
• Normal Vaginal Delivery
• Pediatric Asthma
• Pneumonia
• Total Hip Replacement
• Total Knee Replacement
• Unstable Angina.

Easy-to-Use Format
A multimedia design helps reduce patient anxiety and increase patient understanding of and involvement in the care process. Brief, animated movies and colorful graphics present information in an interactive, user-friendly format, which uses:
• Point-and-click navigation
• Narration
• Everyday vocabulary and definitions
• Closed-captioning for the hearing impaired.

Easy Access to Information
Users quickly access information about medical conditions and care via the hospital's Web site or intranet. The product is accessible from any location with Internet access, including:
• Physicians' offices
• Hospital locations (at patients' bedsides, hospital kiosks, or patient lounges)
• Affiliated facilities
• Patients' homes
• Hospital outreach.

Links to Relevant Information
The browser-based format allows organizations to link their own tailored guidelines and protocols, as well as favorite Web sites to the Patient-Centered Education product.

JCAHO Compliance
MEDITECH's Patient-Centered Education product helps organizations meet Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO) patient education requirements. Patients can continue to access their profiled information and prescribed treatments from home. For those patients without Internet access, information can also be printed and presented to the patient prior to discharge from the hospital or physician’s office.

Security
Password protection ensures that patients have access only to the information pertinent to their present conditions. A new clinical profile is created and a new password is assigned each time the patient visits the hospital.

General Diagnosis Education
Our Patient Education application includes a General Diagnosis Education component that helps hospitals provide general medical information to the community at large, positioning the organization as the local authority for health care. Medical content educates those at risk for illnesses and provides an essential resource to improve the well-being of the community. The product condenses and organizes the most important diagnosis-related content, eliminating the need to search through endless technical pages of information.

For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative

MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com