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How to Add Video to
Your iHealth Practice Web Site

Videos are becoming common tools to introduce a physician's practice to prospective patients, explain procedures to existing patients and to introduce practice staff.

When coupled with a video hosting service like YouTube, Medem's physician website services can provide this needed service video. Essentially, all you need to do is:

Create your video
Upload it to YouTube
Create a custom viewer
Paste a link in the appropriate section of your site pages

Detailed instructions follow.

Requirements:

Your edited video file, saved to any folder on your computer, using one of the following file formats: .mpg, .mov, .avi or .wmv.
A user account on YouTube. You can create this by going to http://youtube.com/signup and following YouTube's instructions.
1. Using this YouTube account, you can maintain as many videos as you want and control options for how they are viewed.
2. This is also where you can see how many times your video has been viewed.
A practice or physician site hosted by Medem.
A paid iHealth subscription.

Steps to embed video into a physician site using YouTube video hosting:

Create a YouTube Account
Log into your YouTube account.
Go to My Account (in the top navigation)
1. This the main area from which you can access/edit videos and custom players, the two features you'll use to put video onto your practice site.
2. My Videos is also where you can see how many times your video has been viewed.
Figure 1: YouTube main page
Click on the "Upload New Video" button link on the account page to start the upload process.
Figure 2: My Account Screen on YouTube
1. Enter the title you want posted with your video. This title will show on the YouTube site, but not on your Practice Site.
2. Enter a description. This will show on YouTube, but not on your Practice Site.
3. Enter a tag (key word), used by YouTube for searching. Your specialty or practice name is a good candidate.
4. The "Broadcast Options" is correctly defaulted to Public.
5. You do not need to set anything for "Data and Map Options" so you may bypass them.
6. Sharing Options: make sure that Embedding is set to "Yes external sites may embed and play this video." so you can add your video in your Practice Site. The video must also be "public" for your patients to view it from your site. Other options can be set as you wish.
  Figure 3: First Video Upload Screen on YouTube
7. Click the "Upload a Video" button.
8. On the next screen, click on the "Browse" button to find the folder where you saved the video earlier. Select the video file you want to upload.
  Figure 4: Second Video Upload Screen - find your file
9. The browse window gets closed and the screen shows the file you selected.
10. If it is correct, click on the "Upload Video" button. If not, click "Browse" again and find the right file.
11. It may take a few to several minutes depending on the size of your file. But when the video is uploaded, YouTube brings up a confirmation screen.
Figure 5: YouTube Video upload confirmation screen
Creating a custom player will make your video look better on your web site and present better options to patients when the video ends.
1. Click on My Account in the YouTube header. Select option to Create Custom Player.
  Figure 6: My Account Page on YouTube
2. Enter a name and description for your player. Only you will see this so choose anything you want, as long as you enter something.
3. Choose a color theme that goes well with your Practice Site.
4. Select the left-hand sample viewer in the Layout section.
5. Make Sure "My Videos" is selected for Content. Then click "Select" button for My Videos
6. Click Generate Code.
  Figure 7: Custom Player settings in YouTube
7. When YouTube returns, there should be a string of HTML in the box next to Embed Code. If you get an error, supply the missing information and try again. Click in the box to the right of "Embed Code" box and press Control-C (or use Edit Menu / Copy function) to copy the link.
  Figure 8: Completed Custom Player screen on YouTube
Now log in to Your Practice Online to add the video to your site for your patients.
1. Click the Web Site Pages link.
2. Click the Home Page Link to open the editor for your home page.
3. Place your cursor in the box for the area where you want the video to show. Care Philosophy is recommended.
4. Type an introduction to the video. For example: "This video introduces you to our practice and how we care for patients." Hit Enter twice to provide some space, then type control-V (or use Edit Menu / Paste function) to paste in the embedded link you copied from the YouTube site into the input box.
  Figure 9: Home Page Editor in Medem's Your Practice Online
5. Optional: Inside the HTML string, very carefully replace the sizing values: change 425 to 340 and 366 to 280 in both locations within the string to size the video more appropriately to the page.
  For example, your HTML string will look like this. The values to replace are highlighted in red text below.
  <object width='425' height='366'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFMS8 _rnpAum2cZ5O3qB4Jj_KJ1hngQUlEY='></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></params ><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFMS8 _rnpAum2cZ5O3qB4Jj _KJ1hngQUlEY=' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='366'></embed></object>
6. Click the Save and Publish button.
7. You may click "Preview Site" to see your site as patients will see it.
8. When you have made all the changes you want to make, log out of Practice View.

For assistance with the upload process at no additional charge, please contact us at info@medem.com or call iHealth Client Services at 1-877-926-3336 between 7am-5pm PT.