A video is often rejected by a physician because of disagreement with one small part of the content. For practical office use, a video presentation must be succinct, customizable, and be able to be instantly administered by the clinician. Only videos for patients to take home can be encyclopedic. With the current requirements toward more efficient use of professional time and meeting expected educational standards and guidelines, health education video technology can be the primary tool to teach health care basics, thereby allowing more focused use of physician time. Direct video reinforcement of our pediatric guidance is a powerful adjunct to enhance patient understanding and retention, and improve child care.
Video can enable clinicians to more easily demonstrate home management techniques.
Existing digital video-CD technology eliminates the problems of cumbersome videotapes which wear out and require rewinding and searching for topics. With no searching or rewinding, there is instant access to all topics which can be programmed in any order. The remote control selects the subjects the way songs are programmed on an audio-CD player. The cost of a video-CD player is little more than that of a VCR, and the cost of one disk of pediatric health supervision subjects will be far less than that of a collection of videotapes. Vignettes from anticipatory guidance published from AAP Guidelines for Health Supervision and Bright Futures on videodisk will enhance health promotion at well child exams.