MEDITECH  
Patient Education & Internet for Patients
product brief

MEDITECH's Patient Education and Internet for Patients product enables health care consumers to manage their health proactively. The application both educates consumers about common medical diagnoses, treatments, and medications, and enables patients to communicate with caregivers electronically through the Internet. Organizations using MEDITECH's Patient Education and Internet for Patients product are assured that their consumers have both relevant, easy to understand information about medical conditions and treatments, and a convenient tool for communicating with health care providers.

Patient Education Features
MEDITECH's Patient Education content is readily accessible from any location with Internet access, including physicians’ offices and the patients' homes. Information is presented with easy-to-read text, colorful graphics, and animated movies with closed-captioning for the hearing impaired.

The product includes both Patient-Centered and General Diagnosis content. The Patient-Centered Education content provides patients with the information most necessary for them to learn about their medical conditions and treatments. Care providers enter patients' conditions into brief, on-line profiles. MEDITECH's product then compiles education information specific to the patients' conditions and treatments, including procedures and tests they will undergo, medications to be administered, and any post-visit care they may require.

MEDITECH's General Diagnosis content, meanwhile, serves as a medical resource to the entire community, providing easy-to-understand information on conditions and allowing local health organizations to function as the main point-of-contact for on-line medical information.

Information on Common Diagnoses
The product provides more than 90 educational topics on the leading diagnoses and treatments. 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 patients' anxiety and increase their involvement in the care process. Easy-to-read text, colorful graphics, and animated movies 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
A 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.

Joint Commission Compliance
MEDITECH's Patient-Centered Education content helps organizations to meet Joint Commission patient education requirements. Patients can continue to access their profiled information and prescribed treatments from home. For those patients without Internet access, information can 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.

Patient Communication Features
The Patient Education and Internet Access for Patients product optimizes the speed and convenience of the Internet to help health care organizations to develop and maintain effective electronic relationships with their patients. Consumers have quick, secure access to information in a familiar browser format.

Patients using MEDITECH's Internet Access features can:
• Verify appointment schedules and view a log of past visits
• Request appointments
• Update demographic and insurance information
• Confirm health plan and billing information
• Pay bills on-line via electronic bill pay
• Request prescription renewals
• Review educational materials through MEDITECH’s Patient Education application
• View their own test results and reports through the organization’s Web site
• Communicate sensitive medical information to providers at any time, in complete confidence
• Check an access log that lists the names of all users who have viewed their information, as well as the dates and number of times viewed.

MEDITECH ensures that patient data communicated using this product is secure and encrypted when transmitted via the Internet.

Please contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative for further information about this product.

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