health-literacy
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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20 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): health-literacy, Medical Information, phr, Terminology
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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20 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): health-literacy, Medical Information, phr
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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11 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Health Information, health-literacy, Podcast
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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14 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Elderly, health-literacy, Literacy
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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10 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): health-literacy, Online
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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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Health Information, health-literacy, Internet, Online
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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14 December 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): e-prescribing, health-literacy, Medical Errors
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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14 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Drugs, health-literacy, Internet, telepharmacy
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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1 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): Empowerment, health-literacy, Online Services, Patient, patient experience, Research, Self Management
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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9 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Consumer, Health Information, 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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29 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): health-literacy, Virtual
“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.”
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Nancy Turett, The Health Engagement Blog, 22 December 2008
23 December 2008 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): health-literacy, Personalised Medicine, phr
“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.”
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Modern Medicine, 14 October 2008
15 October 2008 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): health-literacy
“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.”
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David C. Kibbe, e-Care Management, 12 October 2008
13 October 2008 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Communication, Digital Homecare, Empowerment, Health Information Technology, health-literacy, phr
“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.”
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Josh Seidman, PCHIT, 18 March 2008
18 March 2008 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): e-Health, Health Information Technology, 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.”
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Megan Ogilvie, The Star, 4 March 2008
4 March 2008 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tag(s): health-literacy
“eMedTV (www.emedtv.com), a health information Web site that strives to empower its users with reliable and easy-to-understand medical information, today announced that nearly 3,000 of its health education videos can now be embedded on anyone’s Web site — free of charge.”
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Marketwire, 13 February 2008
14 February 2008 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): health-literacy, Video, Web
“Americans who cannot understand doctors’ orders, instructions on prescriptions, and other essential health knowledge, cost the U.S. up to $238 billion every year, according to a University of Connecticut study of “health illiteracy.”"
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Abram Katz, New Haven Register, 11 October 2007
12 October 2007 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): health-inequality, health-literacy
