Using Texting to Improve Teen Health
Rick Nauert, Psych Central
“A new study leverages teens’ relationships with cell phones and text messages as a method to enhance health literacy and improve health behaviors.
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The electronic medical record and patient-centered care
Nusbaum NJ. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 3(11)
Background
One goal in EMR development should be to facilitate a patient-centered clinical encounter.
Methods
Qualitative analysis and suggestions are offered for how the EMR can individualize patient care, in support of a patient-centered approach.
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Patient access to GP records by 2015
Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider
“Providing patients access to their online records by 2015 is one of the few specific commitments in the government’s newly released NHS information strategy.
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How health literacy impacts your EHR system
Kyle Murphy, EHR Intelligence
“Today, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has requested approval to collect information for the first phase of its project to increase patient health literacy, “Development of a Health Information Rating System (HIRS).” The initiative takes aim at health literacy — a patient’s ability to comprehend and act on her medical information to make sound health decisions.
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Health Language Joins Forces With Dossia To Enable Employees To Better Understand Contents Of Their Personal Health Record
Healthcare Technology Online
“Health Language, Inc. (HLI), the global leader in medical terminology management, is teaming with Dossia, a leading health management system provider whose founding members include many of the country’s major employers, to improve the user experience and utility of the Dossia Personal Health Record for employees, retirees, and their dependents.
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Dossia Adds Medical Term Translator To E-Health Records
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Dossia is making it easier for patients to understand the information in their electronic health records.
The employer consortium has signed a deal to use terminology translation technology from Health Language Inc. in Dossia’s personal health records to help convert medical lingo into layman terms.
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How podcasts can help patients with health literacy
Robert Rodvien, KevinMD
“When a person is told that they have a serious illness, they are similar to Alice falling down the rabbit hole.
They enter a bewildering new world of discussions, tests and treatment programs that must be navigated while maintaining a job, life obligations, and relationships with friends and family. Just when a person needs more resilience to stress, anxiety can occur.
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eHealth Literacy as a catalyst to overall digital literacy among the elderly
Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, ICTconsequences
“I have posted before about the importance of eInclusion and eHealth and Inverse Care Law 2.0 talking about the successive kinds of access to digital technology but I have not posted about what are the reasons for not having access to the Internet at home to explain why eHealth literacy could be a catalyst to overall digital literacy among the elderly.
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Making Strides Toward Improving Health Literacy Online
Jessica Mark, e-Patients.net
“Susannah Fox recently highlighted the health information divide in her February 1 post. As we work to expand access to the Internet for all Americans, we must work in parallel to improve the quality and usability of health information on the Web. For many information seekers, the Internet can be stressful and overwhelming—even inaccessible. Much of this stress can be reduced through the application of evidence-based best practices in user-centered design.
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Readability of online health information: implications for health literacy
Mcinnes N, Haglund BJA. Informatics for Health and Social Care, 2011
Accessibility is one of six quality criteria articulated by the European Commission in its code of conduct for health websites. Readability plays an integral part in determining a website’s accessibility. Health information that is hard to read may remain inaccessible to people with low health literacy. This study aimed to calculate the readability of websites on various causes of disease. The names of 22 health conditions were entered into five search engines, and the readability of the first 10 results for each search were evaluated using Gunning FOG, SMOG, Flesch-Kincaid and Flesch Reading Ease tests (n = 352). Readability was stratified and assessed by search term, search term complexity, top-level domain and paragraph position.
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Medical errors that involve handwritten prescriptions
Daphne Swancutt, KevinMD
“Two people in the United States just died in the last hour. Seventeen more will die in the next 7 to 8 hours. Over a year, that number will accumulate to about 7,000.
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Dirt cheap and without prescription: how susceptible are young US consumers to purchasing drugs from rogue internet pharmacies?
Ivanitskaya L et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(2)
Background:
Websites of many rogue sellers of medications are accessible through links in email spam messages or via web search engines. This study examined how well students enrolled in a U.S. higher education institution could identify clearly unsafe pharmacies.
Objective:
The aim is to estimate these health consumers´ vulnerability to fraud by illegitimate Internet pharmacies.
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New tool aims to unlock the secrets of engaging patients
Adrian O’Dowd, BMJ
“A tool is being launched that will allow doctors to access hundreds of pieces of research into how to engage patients and the public in health care.
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Module V Ethics and Plagarism
Sherri Evershed, Information to Informatics
“The AHRG website has an abundance of information for a large and varied audience. For the purposes of this posting, I choose to focus on consumer health information and health literacy, which in my opinion go hand-in-hand.
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Virtual Patient Advocate Could Enhance Health Literacy
Keri Mucci, HealthLeadersMedia
“Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) are investigating whether a virtual patient advocate can improve real-life health literacy.
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Redefining Personalized Medicine
“Since the first time I heard the concept “personalized medicine” more than a decade ago, I was intrigued. And it continues to receive more and more attention: Pharma companies such as Eli Lilly and Roche consider it a pillar of their R&D approaches; organizations that seek to advance the understanding and adoption of personalized medicine, such as Personalized Medicine Coalition, are springing up; and companies in the health care services industry are dedicating staff to the function and authoring papers on the subject, such as McKesson’s “Personalized Medicine and Healthcare IT: Supporting the Revolution in Human Health.” Even the Obama administration (”The president-elect has indicated his support for both advancing personalized medicine and increasing [research] funding,” said Democratic Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy”) is thrusting energy behind it.”
Article
Nancy Turett, The Health Engagement Blog, 22 December 2008
ACS: Doctors Overestimate Patients’ Level of Literacy
“Doctors overestimate the literacy and numeracy of their patients when giving them written screening tools, according to two papers presented at the 2008 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, held from Oct. 12 to 16 in San Francisco.”
Article
Modern Medicine, 14 October 2008
Empowering Health IT for the Medical Home
“The basic premise of the medical home concept is continuous, uninterrupted care that is managed and coordinated by a personal provider with the right tools that will lead to better health outcomes.”
Article
David C. Kibbe, e-Care Management, 12 October 2008
PCHIT Initiative Implications for Health Literacy
“I had the opportunity yesterday to present findings from the PCHIT Initiative to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Health Literacy (slides will be available to the public there soon). Yesterday’s forum was titled a “Workshop on Health Literacy, eHealth & Communication: Putting the Patient First.” Although I have been reflecting quite a bit on PCHIT findings over the last month, this was an opportunity to focus in more specifically on health literacy issues.”
Article
Josh Seidman, PCHIT, 18 March 2008
Alarm raised on health literacy
“More than half of Canadian adults do not have the skills necessary to properly make daily decisions about their health, according to a report released yesterday by the Canadian Public Health Association.”
Article
Megan Ogilvie, The Star, 4 March 2008
