Patient education

Health video library

Allinahealth.org/infoRX includes 252 English, 126 Spanish and five Russian videos. The videos are evidence-based, covering 20 medical specialty areas.

Prescribe videos for general information or as part of discharge instructions.

Health library

Patient education resources within allinahealth.org's health library include:

• an illustrated health encyclopedia
• a lab tests index
• drug guides, including an alternative medicine index and a drug interaction tool.

Documents within this resource are hyper-linked, giving patients more opportunity to explore on their own. You may find it useful to print out a relevant index page for your patient so that they can use it as a starting point.

Health topics in English and Spanish

You can look up health information in English and easily link to the Spanish translation.

• Health topics (English index page)
• Temas de salud (Spanish index page)

Other patient education resources on the Web

MEDLINEplus Health Topics
Maintained by the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus. Documents within this resource are hyper-linked, making them ideal for patients to explore on their own. 

healthfinder.gov
This compendium of consumer health and human services information is maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

American Academy of Family Physicians
Patient information resources maintained by the American Academy of Family Physicians.

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry's Resources for Families
Patient information resources maintained by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 

Vaccine Information Statements (VIS)
Vaccine Information Statements (VIS) are developed and updated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to inform parents and recipients of immunizations about the benefits and risks of the vaccine prior to administration. Available in 22 languages, these documents can be printed out and given to the patient.

Medication information for patients

Drugs, Supplements and Herbal Information on MEDLINEplus
Documents within this resource are maintained by the National Library of Medicine.

Drugs on fda.gov
The United States Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) may offer information about medications that you can find nowhere else.

Patient labs

Lab Tests Online
Created by a collaboration of several professional societies representing the lab community, this site is intended to inform patients about their labs and what they mean. May require a higher reading level than some other patient information resources.