A clinical wizard is an interactive multimedia tool that presents information to a user in a friendly audio/visual format and prompts interactions. Wizards are multimedia files that combine text, audio, video, and/or animation with interactivity and decision logic to educate the user about a specific health condition.

 

Podcasting is a way to receive audio files over the Internet. Many content providers offer netcast feeds at no cost. These feeds deliver audio broadcasts to your desktop. You can listen to these files on your computer or load them on to your MP3 player and take them with you. All you need to get started is podcasting software. Once you download and install the software, simply add one of our netcast feeds. The podtcasting software will automatically check for updates and download the files to your computer so you can load them onto your MP3 player.

 

Examples of Podcasting software:

 

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format for sharing and distributing Web content, such as news headlines. Using an RSS reader, you can view data feeds from various news sources including headlines, summaries, links to full stories. RSS/News Aggregators (also called Readers) will download and display RSS feeds for you. A number of free and commercial News Aggregators are available for download. Many aggregators are separate, "stand-alone" programs; other services will let you add RSS feeds to a Web page. Yahoo! users can add RSS feeds to your My Yahoo! page.

 

Vodcast or video podcast is an emerging term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures. The term is an evolution specialized for video, coming from the generally audio-based podcast and referring to Video On Demand (VOD) and (web-, narrow-, broad-) casting where the RSS feed is used as a non-linear TV channel to which consumers can subscribe using a PC, TV, set-top box, media center or mobile multimedia device.