With wired.MD®, Cognecy offers a series of solutions for all types of medical libraries and resource centers from general health resource centers to combined patient and medical libraries open to the public. The right solution for either a medical library or a resource center is usually dependent on three differing criteria including initiatives, platforms and budget. These three criteria are always key as they answer the questions of what is the library or resource center's patient education goals? What ways can the library or resource center deliver patient education? What patient education can the library or center afford to implement at this time?

Most medical libraries and resource centers have interest in implementing a patient education system that allows them to educate more of their patients, to provide education before, during and after encounters, to increase patient compliance and satisfaction, to garner greater JCAHO scores and to generate more foot traffic by patients and providers. wired.MD's mission is to help libraries and resource centers meet any or all of these initiatives with the streaMed® product suite.

Medical libraries and resource center also often have varying platforms independently and within a location or series of locations. These three main platforms for educating patients include computer systems/kiosks, websites and traditional TV/DVD players. Each platform is another avenue for a library or resource center to educate patients with greater effectiveness and/or efficiency. The streaMed product suite includes the following solutions for each of these platforms within a medical library or resource center:

streaMed - Hospital - Provides web-based health videos, handouts and websites for computer systems/intranets and kiosks. This is the most ubiquitous solution as it provides the entire video, handout, animation library and peer-reviewed database of health websites from wired.MD. streaMed is for use both on computers and kiosks in the library and resource center and on patients' home computers.

streaMed Website™ - Provides integrated health videos and handouts for the library website. Libraries and resource centers often utilize this solution in conjunction with streaMed to help educate site visitors on seasonal conditions, preventive health topics and on general health and wellness.

streaMed DVD™ - Provides customized health video sets for individual dvd players. Libraries and resource centers use this solution as an initial introductory option to educate patients via existing TV/DVD players in the library, via lending library systems and via group education courses.

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