Life-Saving Information. Delivered Everywhere.

 

The health information people need shouldn't stop at the edge of the broadband map.

Whether it's a rural clinic managing a disease outbreak, a community health center serving uninsured families, or a shelter coordinating care during a disaster — the communities with the greatest health needs are often the ones with the least reliable connectivity. IEI closes that gap.

 

The Challenge

 

Across the country, the communities that most need accurate, trusted health information are the same ones least likely to have consistent internet access. Rural clinics struggle to deliver up-to-date patient education. Community health workers can't reliably access training updates in the field. When emergencies strike, public health alerts fail to reach the people most at risk.

The result: preventable health decisions made without the right information. Patients who leave appointments with unanswered questions. Providers who spend clinical time repeating basic education that could have been delivered in the waiting room.

Nowhere is this more acute than in maternal health. New mothers in underserved communities — many of whom lack reliable internet access — often leave care settings without the follow-up resources they need. That information gap contributes directly to higher rates of preterm births, emergency room visits, and inadequate postpartum care.

Connectivity gaps don't just slow down health systems — they deepen health disparities. And in maternal and infant health, those disparities cost lives.

 

IEI's Role in Public Health

 

IEI's platform is an overlay and continuity layer that works alongside your existing systems, workflows, and infrastructure — not as a replacement for them. Whether a facility has reliable broadband, intermittent cell service, or no connectivity at all, Equalizr™ ensures health content keeps flowing.

Health organizations use Equalizr™ to curate and organize digital content — training modules, public health campaigns, nutrition and hygiene messaging, safety protocols, and emergency alerts — all designed to be delivered offline-first. Content is packaged for distribution through datacasting, broadband, or hybrid delivery pathways, depending on what each community's infrastructure supports.

On the ground, patients, health workers, and community members access that content through Equalizr™ Edge — a dynamic, personalized offline experience that feels like being online. The Edge adapts to each individual who logs in, surfacing the resources, courses, and materials relevant to their location and role.

The information your community needs. Available everywhere you need to reach them.

 

Proven Results: PACHC Partnership

IEI's impact in public health isn't theoretical — it's already operating at scale in Pennsylvania.

In partnership with WITF and the Pennsylvania Association of Community Health Centers (PACHC) — which represents the largest network of primary care providers in the Commonwealth, serving nearly one million patients at over 400 facilities annually — IEI deployed a network of digitally curated health kiosks across underserved rural and urban communities.

WITF

What's been deployed:

  • 60+ kiosks across 30+ facilities, delivered via datacasting and broadband
  • Hardware including Homerun broadcast units, TV monitors, and interactive tablets
  • A content library of 50+ images and 100+ videos actively curated by 34 local content curators across 10 playlists
  • Topics spanning nutrition, COVID, hygiene, and other locally relevant health messaging

What changed:

  • Patients now receive high-quality health education during idle waiting room time — leaving better informed and more prepared to act
  • Staff spend less time repeating basic education and more time on clinical priorities
  • Local curators control the messaging — keeping content culturally relevant and community-specific
  • PACHC is on track to scale to 137 total sites, with hundreds of additional device deployments planned

The PACHC rollout demonstrates what's possible when the right content reaches people where they already are — without requiring them to have reliable internet at home.

Emerging Initiative: Maternal Health Equity

 

IEI is partnering with a leading national maternal health organization to extend this model into one of the most urgent gaps in American healthcare: digital health access for new mothers in underserved communities.

Many mothers — particularly in rural and low-income urban areas — leave care settings without reliable access to the follow-up resources they need. Without connectivity, critical guidance on infant care, postpartum health, breastfeeding support, and warning signs goes undelivered. The consequences are measurable: higher rates of preterm births, unnecessary emergency room visits, and preventable complications from inadequate follow-up care.

IEI's approach pairs a trusted national voice in maternal health with our datacasting and offline delivery infrastructure, routing curated, life-saving content directly to mothers through PBS member stations — no internet required. Initial pilots have been designed and are in market development, with grant applications currently in front of several health-focused foundations and plans to expand across multiple markets.

This collaboration represents a new model for health equity: combining the clinical expertise of a national health organization with the reach and resilience of public broadcasting, delivered through IEI's connectivity-independent platform.

This initiative is actively seeking funding partners and regional health organizations to join the pilot expansion. 

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Use Cases

 

Maternal & infant health outreach Deliver postnatal care guidance, infant health education, breastfeeding resources, and postpartum warning signs to new mothers in underserved communities — through PBS member stations and offline receivers, without requiring home broadband. 

Community health centers and FQHCs Deploy patient education content to waiting room kiosks and interactive tablets. Reach patients during appointment windows with nutrition guidance, preventive care messaging, chronic disease education, and community resource directories — curated by your team, delivered without broadband dependency.

Public health campaigns and outreach Distribute localized prevention messaging, vaccination information, and health screenings to populations in areas where digital communication is unreliable. IEI makes it possible to reach the people traditional campaigns miss.

Field health workers and CHW training Keep community health workers equipped with updated training modules, case management resources, and protocol documentation — accessible offline, wherever they're working.

Emergency and shelter health response During disasters, disease outbreaks, or displacement events, IEI functions as a health information continuity layer — ensuring critical guidance and resource directories remain accessible even when infrastructure fails.

How It Works

  1. Curate Your team — or a network of local content curators — uses Equalizr™ to build and organize playlists of health content: videos, guides, alerts, and educational modules tailored to your community's needs.
  2. Broadcast IEI packages and delivers content through the pathway that fits your infrastructure — datacasting via public television signals, broadband, cellular, or hybrid delivery. Content reaches every endpoint on your network, whether connected or not.
  3. 3. Access Offline Patients, residents, and health workers interact with content through Equalizr™ Edge — a familiar, easy-to-navigate experience available on kiosks, tablets, laptops, and displays.

Who We Work With

 

IEI's public health solutions serve a range of stakeholders across the health ecosystem:

  • Community Health Centers & FQHCs — delivering patient-facing content and provider support at the facility level
  • State and Regional Health Associations — coordinating content distribution across networks of facilities
  • Public Health Agencies — deploying prevention campaigns and emergency health communications
  • Foundations and Funders — supporting scalable, measurable health equity initiatives
  • Relief and Emergency Response Organizations — ensuring health information is available to displaced and at-risk populations

 

Get Involved

For Health Organizations & Agencies Embed IEI's platform into your existing workflows to improve patient engagement, support field staff, and extend health education to the communities you serve — with or without reliable broadband.

For Funders & Health Equity Partners Your investment helps extend this model to more facilities, more communities, and more patients who are currently making health decisions without the information they need.

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