About HealthMark Multimedia

HealthMark Multimedia was founded in 1997. From our first product, a bicycle safety game for preschoolers, to our current products on cancer and other chronic diseases for patients and caregivers, our hallmark has been evidence-based, expert-reviewed and user-tested solutions.

Our staff includes public health educators, medical professionals, writers, editors and instructional designers. We pride ourselves on producing media-rich, medically accurate, user friendly information that is accessible to people of all backgrounds.

We also call on an extensive network of public health and medical experts to write, review and consult on our projects, as well as a large group of end-users who review and test our products for usability and desired content. Our unique combination of peer-reviewed, research-based content, medical expert review and user assessment results in media-rich products that are user-friendly, audience appropriate and reliable.

Our dynamic product development process includes input from a medical experts and end-users, including patients and their family members and friends, to ensure that information is accurate, relevant and useful. To make complex medical material non-threatening and easy to understand, HealthMark Multimedia's solutions offer a media-rich learning environment, suitable for diverse audiences. Interactive tools enable the users to apply new information directly to their personal situation.

Awards and Honors

HealthMark Multimedia's products have won numerous awards for design, usability and overall excellence:

FREDDIE Awards

The FREDDIE Award recognizes excellence among medical media professionals at the local, domestic and international levels. Entries in the FREDDIE Awards competition are rated on 5 basic areas: content, education, production quality, originality, and communication. HealthMark Multimedia has been honored with the following:

FREDDIE award for Coping for Moving On™: Tools for Breast Cancer Survivors® CD-ROM in 2007
FREDDIE award for Men's Health for Prostate Cancer: Your Decision Notebook® CD-ROM in 2003
FREDDIE Finalist in the category of Women's Health for Breast Cancer: Your Decision Notebook® CD-ROM in 2004
FREDDIE Finalist in the category of Health & Wellness for Complementary Cancer Care: Your Healing Plan® CD-ROM in 2006

Davey Awards

The Davey Awards exclusively honor the "Davids" of creativity, the finest small firms, agencies and companies in the world.

Gold Davey Awards for:

Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief® CD-ROM
The corporate theme music used on all HealthMark Multimedia products.

Silver Davey Awards for:

Complementary Cancer Care: Your Healing Plan® CD-ROM
Diabetes: Living My Best Life® CD-ROM
Diabetes: Living My Best Life® theme song
Adventures with the Shady Characters® theme song

Webby Awards

The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for web sites, recognize web sites exhibiting remarkable achievement.

CancerCaregiving.com was recognized as Webby Worthy

HeSCA Media Awards

The Health and Science Communications Association Interactive Media Festival recognizes the best in health sciences media production. In the category of Interactive Software HealthMark Multimedia received:

Silver Award for Recurrent Prostate Cancer: Your Decision Notebook® CD-ROM
Bronze Award for Breast Cancer: Your Decision Notebook® CD-ROM

New York Festivals Interactive and New Media Awards

This international competition recognizes the World's Best Work™ in advertising and programming. HealthMark Multimedia won:

World Medal for Adventures with the Shady Characters® in 2004

National Mature Media Award

This award program recognizes the nation's finest communications materials produced for older adults. Entries are judged for overall excellence of design, content, creativity and relevance for older adults. HealthMark won:

2003 Merit Award for Prostate Cancer: Your Decision Notebook® CD-ROM in the Consumer Products Division.

Codie Award Finalist

The Codie Awards feature the software and digital content industry's foremost products and services and honor excellence for corporate achievements. It is the only peer-recognition program in the industry allowing companies to compete for the acclaim of their competitors. The finalists represent companies ranging from emerging start-ups to traditional industry powerhouses and comprise 40 product and service categories in the consumer and corporate markets. HealthMark was honored as:

2003 finalist in the Best Lifelong Learning Product or Service for Prostate Cancer: Your Decision Notebook® CD-ROM