The patient education advisors will be used throughout the system of hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, home health, and home medical equipment services. Designed as a tool to aid providers in educating patients about their health problems, the software programs allow healthcare providers to edit topics and quickly print them out in regular or large type with patient, provider, and facility names at the top of each handout.
Many topics are available in Spanish.
The Clinical Reference Systems patient education Advisor series provides patient education handouts for more than 3,000 conditions, diseases, and treatment, and over 5,000 medications. LHS will make the extensive CRS repository of patient health and drug information available throughout their system. Through its subsidiaries, LHS owns, leases and manages hospitals and nursing homes, primarily in rural communities. The array of health care services also includes a center for children with disabilities, physician practice support services, and a network of home health agencies and home medical equipment companies. More than 30,000 software programs are now at work in physician offices, clinics, hospitals, medical school residency programs, medical and consumer libraries, occupational clinics, and managed care organizations.