Press Releases
For Immediate Release: April 15th, 2005
Cognecy™ and wired.MD, Inc. Announce Partnership
Cognecy is an information management solutions provider focused on supplying leading edge services and products to healthcare facilities and medical providers. They also create a virtual storefront for physicians seeking to advance their practice and quality of care via technology adoption.
Cognecy is working to be a single source provider of all key software and hardware requirements to small and medium sized physician groups. They do this by choosing best in class products and services from companies in the billing, electronic health records and education spaces. Cogency will resell the streaMed Patient Education Solution as its sole patient education offering across the United States.
The streaMed Patient Education Solution was released in 2001 as the first completely web-based video on demand and text on demand patient education product available to the physician marketplace. Four years later, the streaMed product has become even more valuable to physician practices as it houses well over 350 patient education videos and 1300 patient education handouts covering most of the key topics critical to physicians and their patients. streaMed currently covers a multitude of medical specialties and has content in 8 languages.
“wired.MD chooses to align our partnering strategy with companies that treat technology as a mission critical component of healthcare” says Mark Friess, CEO of wired.MD, “therefore, we’re excited by Cognecy’s selection of streaMed as the best in class patient education solution they will sell.”
About Cognecy
Cognecy is a product distributor, and value added reseller of technology products for private medical practices and computing infrastructure for general business applications. Cognecy's primary focus is to provide medical offices and clinics with a single point of contact that can bring together complete solutions for their practice including computing and network infrastructure, cutting-edge electronic medical record and practice management solutions, as well as medical office enhancement "coaching" that can realize return on investment figures of a year or less with many clinics. For more information please visit www.cognecy.com or call (214) 206-8910.
About wired.MD, Incorporated
wired.MD, Inc. was founded in Portland, Oregon in 2000. The company's mission is to empower healthcare professionals to improve patients' healthcare experience and reduce costs by making patient education more engaging, effective, and efficient to deliver. wired.MD is located at 733 S.W. Oak, Suite 200, Portland, Oregon, 97205, and can be contacted at (503) 889-0010, info@wired.md , or www.wired.md
