Improve patient comprehension and outcomes
CareNotes® provides a single source for evidence-based patient education materials.
Concise, customizable materials written at a 4th to 7th grade reading level cover conditions, treatment, laboratory tests, follow-up care, psychosocial conditions, continuing health and wellness and the most frequently administered drugs.
Available in 15 languages, CareNotes comprises more than 13,500 end-user documents that cover over 2,600 care condition topics, 2,500 medication topics – and clinical evidence for 485 lab tests.
Clinical consistency
CareNotes content is evidence-based and written by one editorial group within IBM Watson Health. Ensuring the education a patient receives is consistent across all document types and care settings.
Covers the continuum of care
Topics are written to setting, including pre-care, inpatient treatment, hospital and emergency discharge, and ambulatory care. Instructions differ based on where the patient is in the care continuum.
Accessibility
Delivered in a variety of formats (e.g. online, Infobutton enabled web service, hosted files), supports Meaningful Use Stage Two and Stage Three patient education objectives for all major EMR vendors.
Five reasons to use IBM Micromedex CareNotes
- Increases patient engagement
- Provides patient education across all care settings
- Seamlessly integrates into your current HIS/EMR/IPC system
- Helps achieve compliance & regulatory objectives
- Complements the larger patient education suite
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