TeleHealth Services Announces Partnership with Wired.MD to Provide Expanded Educational Content:
(March 20, 2006) TeleHealth Services, the nation's leading provider of television systems in hospitals, announces its partnership with wired.MD® to provide expanded health education content to hospital patients through the streaMed CCTV™ product. Online access to licensed content enables patients to view educational videos from their home computers, both before hospital admission and after discharge. This greatly expands the traditional availability of educational video to content, where availability was limited to within the hospital.
wired.MD's streaMed CCTV™ product provides a patient health education library in pre-digitized format with pre-approved broadcast rights on all video titles for a standard 5-year term. Hospital administrators can easily review education videos via a preview product and then order educational programming. Content can be delivered to the patient bedside through TeleHealth's Video-On-Demand TIGR® Education System.
"streaMed CCTV™ enables a hospital to license educational videos throughout their entire healthcare system," says Dan Nathan, TeleHealth Services General Manager. "By sharing content, a hospital system with multiple facilities could see significant savings. TeleHealth's TIGR system can leverage this savings by providing multi-site systems, reducing the total cost of ownership even more. This is a tremendous benefit that we can offer our customers."
Videos available through wired.MD are continually reviewed by accredited medical professionals. An average 75 videos have been added or updated by wired.MD annually for the past 3 years. Customers receive the updated titles for free and can exchange 10% of their streaMed CCTV titles every 6 months for free as well. New video topics are selected based on current medical information and customer feedback. Some content is available in up to eight languages.
According to Mark Friess, wiredMD's CEO, "wired.MD develops patient and consumer health education video content that hospitals and health organizations can use to deliver patient education that is more effective, engaging and efficient. Partnering with TeleHealth, one of the largest providers of patient education systems, was a natural fit."
About Telehealth Services
TeleHealth's TIGR® Video-On-Demand Education System is an interactive patient and staff education system featuring automated, on-demand access to a library of educational content. TeleHealth Services is the nation's leading provider of integrated display solutions for the healthcare market: point-of-care clinical access, bedside internet access, patient and staff video-on-demand education systems, hospital-grade televisions and accessories, education and entertainment content, and design, installation, maintenance and financing services. TeleHealth Services is a division of Telerent Leasing Corporation, which has been headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, since its founding in 1957. Telerent itself is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ITOCHU International, Inc., a U.S. company based in New York City.
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. (www.wired.md).
