Patient Education Solutions

As healthcare costs continue to rise, hospitals must look for ways to cut costs without cutting patient care.  Couple this with a nationwide nursing shortage and increases in nurse-patient load and efforts that can improve nurse efficiency and maximize their time can be a winner for both hospitals and patients.

The Medical Media Delivery System or MMDS is designed to help healthcare facilities improve patient teaching and patient education as a way to improve patient outcomes and maximize nursing's efforts with patient interactions.

The MMDS hospital patient education system helps nurses and patient educators improve patient outcomes by combining their knowledge of the patient's current level of understanding as well as an assessment of their learning skills to easily incorporate appropriate patient education videos and on-going consultations to improve the patient's comprehension, reduce misunderstandings and improve adherence to discharge orders.

Studies show that more than 50% of patients do not understand the information they are given during their hospital stay and 60% of patients do not understand the information they are given about an upcoming procedure.*  The inclusion of patient education videos before and during discharge can provide improvement.

Patient-centered educational videos can help improve learning and retention and supplement information from doctors and nurses because it uses pictures and simple language to illustrate complex health related topics in easy to understand concepts that help improve understanding and retention.  Nurses can also use video to help patients ask questions.  As an example, to further the teaching process before discharge.  Simple things like providing pen and paper with instructions to "write down questions for later discussion" will help focus the patient or family member so that when they watch the video they do so in an active versus passive manner.

MMDS also helps hospitals with Joint Commission standards with our ADT-HL7 interface to electronic medical records.  The HL7 interface enables the MMDS system to update the patient's hospital record with every video intervention to further document educational activities.

MMDS is the most cost-effective patient education broadcast system and provides hospitals with flexibility for video on demand or a multi-channel patient education system.

For more information on how MMDS can work in your hospital call 800-601-6991.