These valuable caregivers do not need false claims, empty promises, or even more technology to stay on top of. They need access to health education and literacy, healthy food, and seamless self-efficacy tools.
By focusing on integrating care teams, expanding community programs, and addressing SDoH through policy reform, we can create a healthcare system that serves all patients — especially those most in need.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
We must empower health plan members with culturally and linguistically-relevant information about their benefits and health – tools that in turn encourage them to adopt a proactive and informed approach to their well-being.
The impact of personal health literacy on seniors
Translating complex medical knowledge, and making it available to patients in a simple and easy-to-use way, can make healthcare accessible to those that otherwise may have difficulty.
Healthcare organizations must ensure they have a data-literate workforce that is confident in using the data and is empowered in using it to make decisions. Here are some best practices that hospitals can implement to better empower their employees to make data-driven decisions.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
The cost to the healthcare system and to employers due to low health literacy is exorbitant, estimated at up to $236 billion annually.
The revelation that some Outcome Health employees provided misleading advertising data to customers and a subsequent lawsuit from investors has prompted some medical societies that made deals with the company to back away from the company.
“We’ve created a monster, and it’s not surprising to me that there’s literacy issues,” said Kathleen Call, a professor in the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health. “I’ve studied this stuff, and sometimes I make mistakes.”
Some people are very surprised when they go to inpatient hospice, are stabilized and told to go home.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
What is health literacy? It is a movement for health equity.
To Shawn Leavitt, senior vice president of global benefits for Comcast and NBCUniversal, current attempts to rein in healthcare spending are not working.
A little health literacy can go a long way, particularly when it is used to add context to a text message vaccine reminder. That’s one of the findings of a new study published in the January 2015 edition of Pediatrics medical journal. The study centered on 660 Latino children between the ages of 6 months through […]
As soon as Deb Emerson, a former high school teacher from Oroville, Calif., bought a health plan in January through the state’s insurance exchange, she felt overwhelmed. She couldn’t figure out what was covered and what wasn’t. Why weren’t her anti-depressant medications included? Why did she have to pay $60 to see a doctor? The […]
In looking at the healthcare data solutions that were all around him at HIMSS 2014 last week, Colin Hung asked the next logical question: It finally hit me when I was standing in a booth, watching yet another demonstration of a “patient engagement platform” that was little more than a viewer for lab results on […]