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Thanks for wanting to know what's new in Health Literacy Consulting. Here's the latest about health literacy tips, podcasts, resources, and news.
Health Literacy How-To Tip:
- Health Information Technology (Health IT) and Health Literacy. Does technology improve health communication? Or make it more difficult? How can we use Health IT to improve health understanding? This month's How-To Tip highlights my interviews with Health IT experts who discuss the intersection of Health IT and health literacy.
Health Literacy Out Loud Podcasts:
- Open Notes: Building Transparency, Trust, and Better Health Outcomes. Dr. Sue Woods of the Veteran's Health Administration's Connected Care Office is an advocate of using technology to engage patients in health and healthcare. She talks about a system that allows patients to electronically and securely access their own clinical notes.
- Making Personal Health Records Accessible to All. Madeleine Rothberg, of the Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Center for Accessible Media at the public TV and radio station WGBH, works to ensure that multimedia and information technology is accessible to everyone, including those with disabilities. In this podcast Rothberg talks about designing accessible personal health records
- After Visit Summaries. Dr. Alex Federman is a practicing physician and an aging-focused health services researcher. In this podcast interview Federman talks about many aspects of After Visit Summaries (AVS) including ways that providers and patients can use AVS to increase understanding and improve the delivery of care.
News and Tools:
- The US Department of Justice recently amended the Americans with Disability Act. It now is easier for individuals to establish that they have a disability. While I've not heard much more about this amendment, my hunch is that it may broaden how we communicate about health. Here's a link to the Federal Register of August 11, 2016.
- STAT News. I find it important to keep up with the latest about health, medicine, and life sciences. I recently signed up for a daily newsletter from STAT, a national publication from Boston Globe Media Partners. I've learned a lot. Perhaps you will too. Here's a link to STAT.
October is Health Literacy Month. The Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA) and I are now partnering on Health Literacy Month. We are pleased to offer you these free tools:
- Health Literacy Month Handbook: The Event Planning Guide for Health Literacy Advocates. Includes abundant tips and examples of ways to raise awareness. To request a copy, email Beth Scott of IHA
- Health Literacy Hero Him, Her, and Them. Health Literacy Heroes are individuals, teams, and organizations who find health literacy problems and act to solve them. To request images of these Health Literacy Heroes, email Beth Scott or me.
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Happy getting ready for Health Literacy Month.
Until October, ~Helen Osborne
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