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For Immediate Release: December 2nd, 2002
wired.MD®, Inc and GroupOne Healthsource Announce Value Added Reseller Relationship
Video Patient Education Software Developer And Full-Service Healthcare Consulting Firm To Partner And Co-market The streaMed Patient Education Solution
wired.MD, Inc. announced today a partnership with GroupOne Healthsource who will become a Value Added Reseller of the streaMed® Patient Education Solution. GroupOne Healthsource™ is a full-service healthcare consulting firm with offices in Jefferson City, St. Louis, San Antonio, Laredo and Fort Smith and maintains a national client base. GroupOne has extensive experience in every major substantive area of the physician practices and healthcare organizations. GroupOne Healthsource will market and sell the streaMed Solution through the over one hundred GroupOne associates to physician practices and healthcare organizations around the country.
The streaMed Patient Education Solution uses a combination of full motion video, medical animations, graphical representations and narrative educators to provide supplementary patient education at the point of care. streaMed is used within the waiting room, exam room, patient education room, and a patient's home to educate patients on diagnoses, treatment plans and procedures. After patients view a provider-directed video at the point of care, they then receive a printed text transcript of the video and an 8-digit Information Prescription® code. The Information Prescription Code allows patients and their family members to review the video from their personal computer on an Access-Secured Website customized for the physician following the visits at both low and high bandwidth. Patients can then see related videos, complete feedback patient satisfaction surveys and email their providers with questions from the Website.
"We are optimistic on the co-marketing possibilities of this relationship as GroupOne is a clearly recognized solutions provider for medium to large physician practices throughout the country," stated Mark Friess, CEO of wired.MD. "We hope to compliment their services with a focus on fulfilling the patient education needs of their physician practices with more comprehensive and more effective tools such as the streaMed Solution."
Healthcare organizations customers garnered through the GroupOne partnership can use streaMed to supplement their educational consultations and to save time without disrupting the daily workflow of the medical staff. streaMed can be installed directly into an organization's existing hardware and network infrastructure and requires a standard Internet connection. The software works seamlessly at both high and low bandwidth at the point of care and in the patient's home. The software is designed for ease-of-use and for access anywhere and at anytime by healthcare providers and their patients.
About wired.MD, Incorporated
wired.MD, Inc. was founded in Portland, Oregon in March 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 317 S.W. Alder Street, Third Floor, Portland, Oregon, 97204, and can be contacted at (503) 889-0010, info@wired.md, or www.wired.md
