Issue V: Fall 2006

• On-Demand Video: Planning & Implementing the Install — Part 3
  The last in a three-part series about hospital on-demand systems covers all the crucial steps in implementing your system from pre-planning to launch to the months following the install.more…
• On Demand Interview with Joe Nora of SVI Healthcare
  The Vice-President of Healthcare Sales at SVI Healthcare, talks about current trends for on-demand technology in the hospital setting and the biggest challenges you face in getting your hospital to move ahead.more…
• Web Service Links Patients With Family & Friends
  Learn how a family illness launched a web service that has touched over one million people by providing a way for family and friends to connect, stay informed, and provide support when a loved one is in the hospital.more…
• Getting Your Message Across: Patient Teaching, Part 4 by Maureen Habel, R.N., M.A.
  Part 4 in this accredited Nursing Spectrum series looks at ways to help nurses evaluate patient learning, document patient teaching, and avoiding nine common teaching mistakes.more…
• ‘Culture Clues’ Help Staff Understand Diverse Patients
  Learn how the clinical staff at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle developed a simple and effective system to facilitate communication with patients from their diverse community and ultimately improve the quality of care.more…
• Attracting Consumers to Your Resource Center
  If you build it and they don’t come, what can you do? The Family Resource Center, a pediatric consumer health information library at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, shows how to take a proactive approach to get people in the door.more…
• HealthClips™ to Deliver Video from Hospital to Home
  Technology has always been a driving force for how and where people experience patient education media. Now Milner-Fenwick plans to launch a new service that promises to radically change the rules and expectations for patient education.more…
• In The News
  “For much of my 15 years of medical practice, I was a card-carrying member of the group of doctors who resent know-it-all patients…” begins one article in this new section linking readers to thought provoking online reading.more…
• Online Outside Resources
  This issue spotlights low or no cost materials from JCAHO, the National Eye Institute, the Office of Minority Health, and a manufacturer that can help you put on a successful diabetes event.more…
• What's New at Milner-Fenwick
  We spotlight prize winners at the AADE Meeting in Los Angeles (maybe someone you know), new nutrition videos that support AHA guidelines, postpartum programs, and diabetes video and PowerPoint nutrition resources.more…