Our History
During a holiday party in 1994, two doctors and an instructional designer were discussing how to ensure that their patients are reading and understanding their home-care instructions. They brainstormed ways to simplify the content, present it in multimedia, and ask questions that provide corrective feedback.
The next business day, Dr. Souheil Haddad and Dr. Dean Gesme asked Moe Ajam, Ph.D., to start the Patient Education Institute (PEI). Two months later, they tested the first X-Plain tutorials at the University of Iowa and at Bloomington Hospital in Indiana. Twenty-four years later, more than 300 million patients all over the world have watched thousands of X-Plain tutorials and read their illustrated handouts.
The next business day, Dr. Souheil Haddad and Dr. Dean Gesme asked Moe Ajam, Ph.D., to start the Patient Education Institute (PEI). Two months later, they tested the first X-Plain tutorials at the University of Iowa and at Bloomington Hospital in Indiana. Twenty-four years later, more than 300 million patients all over the world have watched thousands of X-Plain tutorials and read their illustrated handouts.
What is an X-Plain Tutorial?
An X-Plain tutorial is a multimedia program that explains a specific health topic in about 50 slides. Patients advance through the presentation one slide at a time. Each slide displays few sentences with full narration. Illustrations and animations help the patient visualize the concepts presented.
At the end of each section, the tutorial asks questions to ensure understanding. If the patient misses a question, the tutorial explains the answer and asks the question a second time.
An X-Plain tutorial is a multimedia program that explains a specific health topic in about 50 slides. Patients advance through the presentation one slide at a time. Each slide displays few sentences with full narration. Illustrations and animations help the patient visualize the concepts presented.
At the end of each section, the tutorial asks questions to ensure understanding. If the patient misses a question, the tutorial explains the answer and asks the question a second time.
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What Makes Us Unique?
The Patient Education Institute pioneered the electronic documentation of patient education encounters in 1995. PEI was the first in the nation to connect with patients using touch-screen technology. Many companies now have simplified content, electronic documentation, and content updates. The Patient Education Institute remains unique, however, in our way of verifying and documenting comprehension through interactive questions (play video for more information). |
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Our Expertise
The Patient Education Institute has four main areas of expertise.
Medical Publishing
The Medical Advisory Board writes and updates the text in all of our programs. Leading healthcare institutions in the USA trust our peer-reviewed and unbiased content. Our clients include Kaiser Permanente, the largest HMO in the nation, and Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the largest private hospital system in the nation. Our patient education materials cover all medical specialties across each stage of care.
Education and Behavior Modification
We rely on behavior modification theories to develop our content. The Medical Advisory Board approves each health topic, and then we publish them in six educational formats:
Health Informatics
We design X-Plain programs to run on a variety of platforms and hardware options, such as tablets, smart TVs, smartphones, and mobile apps. We provide our content in standard technology (XML, HL7) and with extensive metadata (ICD-10, SNOMED, MeSH, etc.) for integration with leading healthcare IT systems (EMR, patient portals, bedside TV systems, etc.).
Medical Publishing
The Medical Advisory Board writes and updates the text in all of our programs. Leading healthcare institutions in the USA trust our peer-reviewed and unbiased content. Our clients include Kaiser Permanente, the largest HMO in the nation, and Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the largest private hospital system in the nation. Our patient education materials cover all medical specialties across each stage of care.
Education and Behavior Modification
We rely on behavior modification theories to develop our content. The Medical Advisory Board approves each health topic, and then we publish them in six educational formats:
- Interactive Tutorials (Multimedia)
- Video Presentations (Multimedia)
- Interactive Quizzes (Multimedia)
- Illustrated Handouts (Textual)
- XML Database (Textual)
- Overviews (Textual)
Health Informatics
We design X-Plain programs to run on a variety of platforms and hardware options, such as tablets, smart TVs, smartphones, and mobile apps. We provide our content in standard technology (XML, HL7) and with extensive metadata (ICD-10, SNOMED, MeSH, etc.) for integration with leading healthcare IT systems (EMR, patient portals, bedside TV systems, etc.).
Services & Program Evaluation
We want to ensure successful implementation, so clients who subscribe to our products receive the following services as part of the subscription:
We want to ensure successful implementation, so clients who subscribe to our products receive the following services as part of the subscription:
- Branding with the name and logo of the client.
- Hosting of the software on our servers.
- Automatic updates of the medical content and software.
- A consultation covering best practices and tips for successful implementation.
- Evaluation measures.
