Doctors have told us that the right visual aids make it easier to explain medical information to patients.
With this in mind, we've created the Medovista platform to provide a suite of cutting-edge visual resources designed to elevate communication between medical professionals and patients.
By integrating visual aids into consultations, medical professionals can enhance patient understanding of their symptoms, treatments and risks, empowering patients to comprehend their conditions better and make informed decisions about their care.
Medovista offers an ever-expanding library of both animated and static visuals, designed to meet the evolving needs of the medical community. Available now through an annual subscription, our resource is at your fingertips to support and transform patient interactions.
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Research shows that using images and videos, alongside written text, significantly increases attention to medical information. It improves the patient's ability to recall that information. Medovista uses cutting-edge imagery, providing clear, simple, and engaging visual resources for professionals. We ensure our library contains key elements helpful for patient understanding.
Clear, simple, and engaging visuals to enhance patient communication
Typical searches result in a mix of graphic photos or simplistic illustrations, offering little educational value. Medovista provides a curated alternative combining accuracy with visual clarity. We move away from inconsistent imagery quality online. Our collaborative approach develops the most useful content with experts who need it, ensuring relevance and effectiveness in medical practice.
A unique and continually updated collection of content for clinicians
Medical professionals can print images during consultations, annotating them while discussing the patient's condition. This process clarifies explanations and provides patients with a physical memory aid to take home. These visuals reinforce understanding and ensure that patients remember key information from their consultation, aiding in better adherence to medical advice.
Dynamic creation of notes that patients can take home with them
Accessing images and video content through our content portal is quick and easy. No special application downloads are required, and it is accessible via standard web browsers. Medovista works seamlessly on desktops, laptops, and tablets. Our platform includes a search feature and favorites functionality, saving time during consultations by locating needed content efficiently.
An accessible, easy-to-use website for medical professionals and patients
Doctors told us what will help them.
Providing clear visual explanations of medical procedures, risks, and outcomes gives patients greater confidence in understanding their condition and treatment plans.
This clarity reduces misunderstandings and miscommunications, shielding doctors from potential legal and insurance claims. Informed patients are less likely to claim malpractice because they are more aware of the complexities and inherent risks of medical treatments.
Reduction in legal and insurance claims
Clear, visual explanations of medical conditions and treatments improve patient comprehension, regardless of language barriers, health literacy levels, or cognitive impairments. Medovista's visual aids facilitate a better grasp of diagnoses and treatment options, enabling informed decision-making and adherence to treatment plans. Well-informed patients are more likely to engage in their healthcare. This empowerment promotes proactive health management and lifestyle changes that improve overall outcomes.
Overcoming language and literacy barriers
Medical professionals and their patients don't always speak the same language, and low literacy levels for substantial sections of the population can make it difficult for patients to comprehend complex information. Visual aids with straightforward or minimal written text can make communicating complex ideas easier for both patients and medical professionals.
Engagement through understanding
Visual tools enhance the patient's ability to recall information received during a consultation. For patients, this means they can replay and consider the information they have heard and seen more effectively, understand and remember their treatments or advice, and be able to share their medical information with others if they wish.
Improved recall of information
Doctors and patient benefits.
Images have long served as a powerful means of disseminating information across diverse cultures, regardless of literacy or language barriers.
Inclusivity
The brain processes images approximately 60,000 times faster than text, enabling quicker comprehension and emotional connection.
Understanding
Research shows that around 65% of people are visual learners, which means they tend to retain information more effectively when presented through images.
Retention
Try today with Shoulder, Ear, Heart and Lung pages open.
You can start using Medovista today completely free, without signing up. We have created 4 pages completely open to everyone. All we ask is when you have a moment, email us with feedback so we can improve our platform and graphics to better help you and your patients.
Value of Visual.
How to get your bespoke graphic.
Check out our lung graphic to see the requested image featured on the lungs page. New graphics are highlighted with a yellow marker for easy identification.
Doctors and medical professionals submit requests for new graphics through our dedicated online submission portal.
Request
We provide a completion timeline and request any additional necessary details to proceed with the creation process.
Confirm
Our team designs the requested 3D animations or still images using top-tier software, ensuring exceptional quality throughout.
Create
The new graphics are integrated into the platform, with all users notified via our monthly update email and platform page.
Update
Making sure we create the visuals you need.
At Medovista we care deeply about creating visual aids that are genuinely useful for medical professionals. We think the best way to do this is to simply listen to what medical professionals want based on their experience. Our process is simple. Subscribing to the Medovista platform not only gives you access to our core collection of images showing the location of major organs in the body, but also to our content request process. Using this, you can ask us to create additional content which might be something completely new, or an amendment to an existing image or video. We will then incorporate this into our content creation roadmap, let you know when it's going to be completed and ask you to review the image once created to make sure it meets your needs. The content then becomes available to all subscribers - if it's useful to you then the chances are it's useful for everyone !
Research #2: Benefits of visual aids
Visual aids, such as images and videos, are powerful tools in improving patient comprehension, particularly for those with low literacy.
In a research study "The role of pictures in improving health communication", the authors concluded that pictures that are closely tied to written or spoken text can greatly enhance attention to and memory of health education information compared to text alone and recommended that medical professionals should consider how images can be used to support key points.
Medovista is a ready to use toolkit for using visual aids within consultations, allowing medical professionals to focus their time on the patient.
Research #1: How well do we know our bodies?
Despite the abundance of available health information, many patients lack a basic understanding of human anatomy, leading to confusion and anxiety during medical consultations.
In a published study "How accurate is patients' anatomical knowledge", a research team surveyed 722 British adults, comprising 589 hospital outpatients and 133 people in the general population. They concluded that many patients and the general public do not know the location of key body organs, even those in which their medical problem is located, for example:
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Two thirds of participants did not correctly identify the location of the lungs or the gallbladder
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Half of participants did not correctly identify the location of the heart
The authors also noted that this can have important consequences for patient care and communication.
By using Medovista organ structure and location content, clinicians can quickly and easily help patients learn this information.
Helpful studies that provide context to our mission
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Research #3: Reducing the impact of low health literacy
Health literacy, the ability of people to understand, evaluate and use health information, is a vital part of patient understanding.
The 2015 report "Improving health literacy to reduce health inequalities" published by Public Health England, says that just under half the adult population have literacy levels equivalent to a 7-9 year old, which means that many adults will struggle to understand complex medical information unless presented in a simple way.
Different languages spoken by the medical professional and patient can also be challenging. Nearly 1m people in the UK either can’t speak English or do not have English as a first language and are less likely to have the medical vocabulary needed during their consultation.
Low levels of health literacy are also linked to poorer outcomes, and our aim is that Medovista content can help medical professionals in overcoming some of the communication barriers posed by lower health literacy.
"Pictures closely linked to written or spoken text can, when compared to text alone, markedly increase attention to and recall of health education information."
"Patients immediately forget 40-80% of the medical information they’ve been given, and nearly 50% of the information they do ‘remember’ is incorrect."
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