The hospital’s overall objective is to promote “health wellness” for their patients and hospital staff.
Patient Health Wellness
Diet is an important aspect of patient recovery and future health wellness. During a hospital stay, patients’ specific dietary needs are met. After leaving the hospital, many patients struggle to maintain a healthy diet. Med World Live has the resources necessary to educate patients to eat properly as they recover, improving nutritional habits, and reducing hospital readmissions. Through Med World Live, a visual path is created to bridge the gap that occurs from post recovery and long-term wellness. The program consists of a series of interactive cooking videos containing chef-prepared recipes and food preparations with exact ingredient measurements for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Patients will log in and watch cooking videos specific to their diagnosis, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and pediatrics. The customer portal includes demonstrations on food preparation as well as grocery lists, recipes, and supplementary nutrition information.
The benefits include:
- The ability to “standardize” a health and wellness program for patients.
- Reduce marketing costs by eliminating printed materials such as brochures, recipes, nutritional information, etc.
- Assure that patients follow a customized nutritional plan after leaving the hospital.
- Analytics measure patient Quality Care and provide evidence to insurance providers.
- Create revenue by providing a platform for sponsors to advertise and promote their company and products.
The American Physical Therapy Association discusses outpatient wellness and Medicare reimbursement:
“The Medicare program wants to ensure that the services they pay for are of high quality. As a result, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has developed quality reporting programs in all practice settings including inpatient rehabilitation, home health, hospitals and outpatient facilities. In addition, quality reporting is also part of the new innovative models of care such as accountable care organizations. These programs include mandatory quality measure reporting and are tied to payment adjustments.”
"Medicare Quality/Pay for Performance." American Physical Therapy Association. APTA, 11 June 2012. Web.
The Med World Live dietary program provides a means to improve Quality Care of outpatients, while increasing hospital reimbursement.
Hospital Staff Health Wellness
A major focus for the Health System is to promote employee health wellness for the purpose of overall hospital cost reduction. The Med World Live series of cooking videos help educate employees on preparing healthy meals and promote overall wellness resulting in:
- Improved overall employee productivity and well-being
- Reduced health insurance premiums
- Decreased sick leave
Analytics
Med World Live offers analytics allowing companies to monitor employee and patient continued health wellness. Hospitals are able to track who visited the portal, what videos they watched and relate it to patient and employee health improvement. A solid knowledge and understanding of data can give management improved insight into their organization’s workings and can lead to measurable improvement in overall performance and health wellness. Over time, our goal is for customers to see a reduction in health insurance premiums and hospital readmissions.
The Med World Live portal technology seamlessly links to any Learning Management System or outside web platform, providing a smooth transition between educational and visual learning experiences.
Customers with existing video content can house and view all materials through Med World Live’s interactive portal.
