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Dental library recognized for excellence

ViewMedica’s new dental health videos recently won a Platinum Award in the category of Best Healthcare Content in the 2018 eHealthcare Leadership Awards. See the Dental Library Creating a new library is always challenging, because we want to make sure the debut titles are useful for our subscribers. For the dental library, we talked to dentists about problems that affect their patients. We asked them about the services they offer. And, we looked at the type of content already available online. Then we...

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New logo, website for ViewMedica

To mark our 20th anniversary, we've updated the ViewMedica logo. The logo represents ViewMedica's modern push to deliver the best video experience for the healthcare industry. It includes a new play-button triangle icon that you will see on our website, in our application icons and within the ViewMedica video player. We’ve also updated our website. The new site is fast, accessible and improves the way new subscribers learn about our services. Current subscribers will see similar improvements made to their administration area...

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ViewMedica adds three new libraries

Converting these specialties into their own libraries gives special attention to their content. Pediatrics and pulmonology are specialties that we expect to grow even further as healthcare providers tell us what they need to better serve their patients. We’ve added three new libraries to ViewMedica: Diabetes, Pediatrics and Pulmonology. Many videos in these libraries have been part of the General Healthcare library for a while now, but as we’ve added content, it has become possible to break them out as standalone libraries. If you subscribe...

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ViewMedica celebrates 20 years of educating patients

20 years ago, we published our first patient education videos for an orthopedic practice in South Florida, Broward Orthopedic Specialists (still a client). The internet was young and in great need of video content to explain complex medical issues in a visual way. The founders of Swarm Interactive, publisher of ViewMedica, had the expertise needed to make that content. In the process, we pioneered many of the methods and technologies that have become standard practice for internet-based patient education. See the History...

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ViewMedica wins two Digital Health awards

The ViewMedica patient education library won two awards in the Spring 2018 Digital Health Awards. This is the first year ViewMedica has entered this competition which is organized by the Health Information Resource Center. Our orthopedic library of videos won a Bronze Award, and our new mental health library won a Merit Award. “We were honored to receive this recognition, especially for our new mental health video library,” Swarm Interactive Chief Creative Officer Scott Horner said. “The award for our orthopedic content...

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The On-Demand Player and Accessibility

To meet the U.S. government’s Section 508 requirements, we followed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Web Accessibility Initiative, and met the WAI level A threshold. U.S. Government rules encourage health providers to make all their web content accessible for sight and hearing impaired as well as users with other disabilities. Subscribers to ViewMedica On-Demand patient education videos can rest assured. The On-Demand player meets WAI-A and section 508 standards for accessibility. Only ViewMedica subscribers get the proprietary On-Demand player for...

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ViewMedica wins top honors in 2017 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

The ViewMedica patient education library is the recipient of two Platinum and two Gold awards in the 2017 eHealthcare Leadership Awards. Four wins marks a new high for ViewMedica in the contest, topping two Golds and a Silver won in 2016. Swarm Interactive, Inc. is the developer of ViewMedica, a library of medical videos used by thousands of providers around the world to educate their patients. ViewMedica subscribers play the videos on their websites, in their facilities and through their waiting...

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ViewMedica wins two Golds, Silver in eHealthcare awards

Swarm Interactive, Inc. is the developer of ViewMedica, a Web-based informational system used by thousands of doctors around the world to educate their patients with clear and attractive medical videos. The ViewMedica patient education library is the recipient of two Gold and one Silver awards in the 2016 eHealthcare Leadership Awards. Three wins marks a new high for ViewMedica in the contest, topping two Golds won in 2015. “Our 3D visuals have always scored well in the Best Rich Media category,” Swarm Interactive CEO...

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ViewMedica wins two Golds in eHealthcare awards

The ViewMedica Patient Education System is the recipient of two Gold awards in the 2015 eHealthcare Leadership Awards. ViewMedica won for the third straight year in the Best Rich Media category, and also earned Gold for Best Interactive application. “The Gold award for Best Interactive is really special because ViewMedica is more than just a library of videos,” Swarm Interactive CEO Don Wittekind said. “ViewMedica is a powerful application full of features to help hospitals and medical practices educate their patients...

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ViewMedica and SONIFI Health Announce Content Partnership

1,000+ ViewMedia patient education videos now available for licensing to SONIFI Health clients. Swarm Interactive, Inc., publisher of the ViewMedica Patient Education library, is pleased to announce its newest content partner, SONIFI Health. SONIFI Health provides interactive patient services through TVs and tablets to thousands of hospital rooms throughout the United States, and this new partnership will allow new and existing clients to license ViewMedica videos for use in their in-house patient education libraries. ViewMedica’s award-winning videos deliver the essential information patients need to understand...

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