Healthwise Wins 6 Digital Health Awards

Healthwise patient education honored in Digital Health Awards® 2023 competition

BOISE, Idaho, June 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Healthwise has been recognized for its medical illustrations and health education videos by the Health Information Resource Center (HIRC)’s 2023 competition. Every year, HIRC honors the best digital health resources for consumers and healthcare professionals.

Healthwise won a Gold award in the “Digital Health Media/Publications: Medical Illustration” category along with one Silver award, three Bronze awards, and one Merit award.

Digital Health Media/Publications: Medical Illustration

• GOLD Award: Learning About Safe Sleep for Babies
• SILVER Award: Weeks 22 to 26 of Your Pregnancy: Care Instructions
• BRONZE Award: Child’s Well Visit, 4 Months: Care Instructions
• MERIT Award: Learning About High Cholesterol

Digital Health Media/Publications: Video

• BRONZE Award: Carotid Endarterectomy: Before Your Surgery
• BRONZE Award: Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT): How It Works

The winning medical illustrations and videos are just a few of thousands of educational materials Healthwise produces to inform, educate, and support patients and caregivers through the healthcare journey. Two of the award-winning pieces continue the recent recognition Healthwise has received for its pediatric education. For the last three consecutive years, Healthwise has won digital health awards for medical illustrations and videos for and about children. The Bronze award-winning “Choosing a Counselor or Therapist for Your Child” video exemplifies Healthwise’s user-centric, inclusive design. The video was created with a signature, user-tested visual style that supports diversity and inclusion and the script has an empathetic, positive tone. The video also reflects Healthwise’s expansion of mental and behavioral health education.

The winning medical illustrations and videos are just a few of the thousands of educational materials produced by Healthwise that inform, educate, and support patients and caregivers through the healthcare journey.

The Gold-award-winning illustration, “Learning About Safe Sleep for Babies,” is one of Healthwise’s new visual Patient Instructions. With a focus on using rich visuals and less text, these new Patient Instructions address a common problem: Studies show that patients immediately forget 50% to 80% of the information their care providers tell them. But patients who receive discharge instructions with visuals and icons recall 35% more information.

The new Patient Instructions not only improve patient recall, but they also help increase health literacy. The low-text, highly visual format supports patients who are English language learners, have limited English proficiency, have low literacy, or have learning or developmental disabilities—all factors that affect health literacy.

“We know it can be stressful to be a new parent or manage a health challenge. Visuals that teach help improve health literacy and make it easier for everyone to learn and remember key points,” said Christy Calhoun, Chief Content Officer at Healthwise. “Kudos to our talented team of artists and writers who work hand in hand with clinicians to create content that is clear, helpful, and accurate and that improves health literacy. We are honored by the continued recognition of our health education.”

Healthwise now offers 65 visual Patient Instructions covering everything from Home Health to Maternal Health to Mental and Behavioral Health and more. New visual Patient Instructions are being added each quarter, with plans to convert all to the visual format over time.

Healthwise was founded in 1975 with the simple nonprofit mission “to help people make better health decisions.” Healthwise partners with hospitals, health plans, health portals, and technology companies to fulfill that mission by providing the health content they need, the technology to deliver it, and the expert services to ensure success.

The Digital Health Awards, the most comprehensive of its kind, recognizes the best consumer health information in materials and programs from organizations throughout the United States.

About Healthwise

Healthwise, a leader in evidence-based health education, technology, and services, is a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions. People have turned to Healthwise information more than 2 billion times to learn how to do more for themselves, ask for the care they need, and say “no” to the care they don’t need. Healthwise partners with leading hospitals, electronic medical record (EMR) providers, health plans, care management companies, and health websites to empower patients and achieve organizational objectives.

Media Contact:

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Lauren Brassey
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