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.
Did you know that patients only remember 50-60% of the information given to them by their doctors? Video can reinforce the doctor's message and improve patient understanding.
The Medical Media Delivery System provides hospitals with video on demand education to improve patient education and information retention and compliment instruction and consultation. MMDS provides hospitals with a patient-centered education system that utilizes the existing cable system to save money and provide a convenient delivery solution.
MMDS is an interactive patient education system that includes simple and easy access to patient education videos. Patients use their in-room telephone (other interfaces available) to access MMDS and order a program. Patients can watch any time they are ready to learn. Family caregivers can also participate in education and care instruction and be better prepared to provide care after discharge.
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.
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.
*Information Sources: Inadequate Functional Health Literacy Among Patients, JAMA, Dec. 6, 1995, Vol. 274
