VM Magazine Recognizes VueCare Media
and Importance of Automated Patient Education

VueCare’s VueSimulator integrates with EHR systems to provide animation, graphic and video technology to demonstrate ocular conditions and treatments.

"EHR systems that include patient education components typically feature either on-board patient education platforms or allow for integration with separate software systems offering educational resources for patients. The best systems, practitioners say, offer comprehensive educational materials on a wide variety of ocular diseases and treatments, using compelling graphics and state-of-the-art video and imaging technology.

Most of the patient education materials offered by software manufacturers are developed either by experienced eyecare practitioners or are sourced by established medical information suppliers, such as the National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus database, the world’s largest medical library that provides an online resource for information on diseases, conditions and treatments using non-technical language. Most are customizable according to the needs of individual practices.

Now, if I hire new staff people, I have to be sure I am hiring people who are computer savvy. That’s how we’re communicating with our patients now.

Mary Anne C. Murphy, OD Front Range Eye Associates, Broomfield, Colo.

Indeed, Murphy said that the system in use at her practice, for example, provides what she describes as “comprehensive” materials, and while she believes that more information is always better, she also likes that she can tailor certain messages to fit individual patients and/or the practice’s preferred treatment approaches..."

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