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Evidence Based Method to Improve Medical Care - Online Patient Education
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Current medical profession challenges that hinder patient education:

  • time constraints
  • insurance carriers
  • low reimbursement rates
  • medical malpractice risk
  • need to market
  • growing competition
  • time consuming education seminars
  • heavy schedules
  • increasing demand on staff

and more.

These pressures affect patient care and treatment outcomes. Patient Education Systems were developed to overcome these challenges and help health care specialists provide better care for their patients.

Research studies assert the need of convenient and effective web-based educational platforms for patients

Health specialists need methods to provide education to their patients. The best proven solution is a web-based educational platform that produces consistently high levels of learning retention. Listed below are just a few research excerpts that demonstrate the advantages of using this advanced educational approach.

Computer-based patient education has been shown to be very effective in improving knowledge and clinical outcomes.

Lewis, D. Computers in Patient Education, Computers , Informatics, Nursing 21(2):88-96, 2003

50% of research participants reported that using the internet made them feel more satisfied with their treatments.

Leaffer, T, Gonda, B. The Internet: An underutilized tool in patient education. Comput Nurs 1996; 14:235-238

69% of patients admitted to not reading the consent form before signing it.

Lavelle-Jones, C. Factors affecting quality of informed consent. BMJ 1993;306:885-890

50% of U.S. adults or 90 million Americans have difficulty understanding health information.

The Institute of Health's statistics

Four rock solid benefits of online patient education

  • Save money and time: requires minimal staff time, allows reallocation of valuable resources, reduces the frequency of marketing seminars, decreases the first office visit length, reduces the number of patient revisits
  • Enhance patient satisfaction: serves your patients well, engages your patients into the health process, provides tailored, comprehensive educational courses, better manages your rapidly increasing number of patient records
  • Improve risk management: reduces exposure to frivolous litigation, assesses patient comprehension, tracks patient participation, enhances informed consent process
  • Expand business reach: captures new patients from a wider geographic area, qualifies your prospective patients, personalizes and deliver your marketing messages, promotes your services online, optimizes the competitiveness of your website

Who can benefit?

Surgical practices of single and multiple surgeons, medical groups, hospitals, insurance carriers, and other entities in the medical field.

If you would like to find out more about online patient education systems, please visit http://www.info-surge.com

Marina Enachi is the Public Relations Director and Writer for Info-Surge, a premier patient education company offering a comprehensive and fully customizable e-learning system to physicians and hospitals. Driven by the need to fulfill a void in clinical practice, Info-Surge improves patients' access to accurate information by harnessing the convenience and broadcast power of the internet.

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