A.D.A.M. Signs Licensing Agreement For Informed Consent Usage.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2002 Dialog Medical Will Incorporate A.D.A.M. Images Into iMedConsent Program A.D.A.M., Inc. (Nasdaq: ADAM Adam, the first man, in the Bible Adam (ăd`əm), [Heb.,=man], in the Bible, the first man. In the Book of Genesis, God creates humankind in his image as a species of male and female, giving them dominion over other life. ), a leading publisher of illustrated and interactive health content, today announced it has signed an image license agreement with Dialog Medical, a patient education and informed consent services provider. The agreement gives Dialog Medical the rights to at least 200 medical illustrations from A.D.A.M.'s Surgeries and Procedures and Health Illustrated Encyclopedia encyclopedia, compendium of knowledge, either general (attempting to cover all fields) or specialized (aiming to be comprehensive in a particular field). Encyclopedias and Other Reference Books content products. The images will be imbedded imbedded, adj See embedded. in documents in the iMedConsent program from which physicians customize and print educational documents and consent forms for their patients. "Since low health literacy health literacy Health care A measure of a person's ability to understand health-related information and make informed decisions about that information; HL includes interpreting prescriptions and following self care insturctions. Cf Literacy. is a common problem, especially for patients experiencing chronic conditions, it is vitally important that every effort be made to help improve their understanding of diagnoses, treatments and surgical procedures Surgical procedures have long and possibly daunting names. The meaning of many surgical procedure names can often be understood if the name is broken into parts. For example in splenectomy, "ectomy" is a suffix meaning the removal of a part of the body. "Splene-" means spleen. ," says Michael Burke The name Burke (from Irish Gaelic de Burca, of Norman origin). In English the meaning of the name Burke is "fortified hill." See also Berkley. Places Australia
Over 90 million adults with low health literacy skills have limited ability to read and understand medical instructions contained on prescriptions or medicine bottles, informed consent documents, and health educational materials. "We are seeing a trend within the healthcare system towards incorporating health visuals into all clinical and administrative applications that link to patient education opportunities," says Dr. Alan Greene, A.D.A.M.'s chief medical officer. "More and more of our customers have begun integrating health visuals into electronic medical records, practice management applications and clinical applications, as part of the solution to low health literacy," he said. About Dialog Medical Dialog Medical provides patient education and informed consent software programs that physicians use to assist them in the informed consent process. Dialog Medical's patient education and informed consent applications are used by over 20,000 physicians, including over 40% of all urologists in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . About A.D.A.M., Inc. Headquartered in Atlanta, A.D.A.M., Inc. is a leading publisher of interactive, visually engaging health and medical information for healthcare organizations, medical professionals, consumers and students. A.D.A.M. products contain physician-reviewed text, graphics produced in-house In-house In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. by medically trained illustrators, and multimedia interactivity to create health information solutions that offer a unique "visual learning" experience in both the healthcare and education markets. A.D.A.M. is a founding member of Hi-Ethics, a coalition of the most widely referenced health websites and information providers committed to developing industry standards for the quality of consumer health information. Forward-Looking Statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. Except for historical information, all of the statements, expectations and assumptions contained in this press release are forward-looking statements. These statements, especially revenue, net income and cash flow forecasts, involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or developments to differ materially. Factors that could affect the company's actual results, performance or developments include general economic conditions, development of the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the as a source of health information, pricing actions taken by competitors, demand for the company's health information, regulatory changes, and other laws and events that impact how the company conducts its business. A.D.A.M. disclaims any obligation or duty to update or correct any of its forward-looking statements. |
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