About HealthMark
Cancer Caregiving: Tools to Help You Help is developed by HealthMark Multimedia, LLC.
HealthMark develops health-related, interactive, user-friendly software used by:
- Patients iand families in making treatment and self-care decisions
- Health care professionals for education purposes
- Parents and children to learn about prevention and staying healthy
HealthMark Multimedia's goal is to provide comprehensive, balanced heath information that is medically accurate yet easy to understand and apply to making informed health decisions.
The company's unique and dynamic product development process includes input from medical experts and end users, including patients and their family members and friends, to ensure that information is accurate, relevant and useful. This is accomplished through medical expert reviews, usability testing, focus groups and effectiveness testing. HealthMark's products offer a rich teaching environment, including graphics, visual components and audio explanations to make complex medical material non-threatening and easy to understand.
HealthMark Multimedia's staff includes public health and medical professionals, writers, editors and instructional designers. Their diverse backgrounds combined with the knowledge and experience of the medical experts and end users brings depth and scope to the company's products.
Many of HealthMark's products are funded through Small Business Innovation research (SBIR) Grants from the National Institutes of Health. HealthMark also contracts for customized multimedia projects.