{"id":12629,"date":"2014-12-03T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12629"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:03:33","slug":"these-medical-infographics-are-empowering-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/these-medical-infographics-are-empowering-patients","title":{"rendered":"These Medical Infographics Are Empowering Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a class=\"navigate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/user\/kenrya-rankin-naasel\" rel=\"author\" data-resource-type=\"user\">Kenrya Rankin Naasel<\/a> \u2014 FastCompany<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has had a chronic medical issue\u2013or a family member with one\u2013knows how difficult it can be to understand what their doctors are talking about. Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/emmisolutions.com\" target=\"_blank\">Emmi Solutions<\/a>, a health data visualization company that uses multidisciplinary art to explain complex concepts to patients of all ages. \u201cHealth care is very personal and can be really scary. People want to be involved, supported, reassured, and guided to make the right decisions for themselves and their families. Caregivers want that for their patients too, but haven\u2019t always had the tools or the incentives to provide that,\u201d says <a class=\"profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/person\/greg-blew\">Greg Blew<\/a>, the company\u2019s chief creative officer. \u201cSo we started making interactive multimedia programs that educated patients about upcoming surgical procedures and set their expectations around factors like recovery time, postoperative pain, and potential risks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3035922\/innovation-agents\/these-medical-infographics-are-empowering-patients?utm_source=mailchimp&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=fast-company-daily-newsletter-b&amp;position=1&amp;partner=newsletter&amp;campaign_date=10112014\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kenrya Rankin Naasel \u2014 FastCompany Anyone who has had a chronic medical issue\u2013or a family member with one\u2013knows how difficult it can be to understand what their doctors are talking about. Enter Emmi Solutions, a health data visualization company that uses multidisciplinary art to explain complex concepts to patients of all ages. \u201cHealth care [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64867,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12629\/revisions\/64867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}