Changing any status quo is challenging, but maintaining the status quo of low patient literacy in healthcare is costly and detrimental to both patients and healthcare organizations. Investing in patient literacy is therefore investing in healthcare itself.
In an interview, Zelis CEO Amanda Eisel shared her perspective on how the company is solving the problems of a fragmented health financial system to benefit all.
The ongoing nursing shortage facilitates high turnover rates since nurses know they won’t have difficulties finding new jobs. In order to retain and attract staff, it’s in a facility’s best interest to understand what nurses want.
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.
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
See how Quantum Health is providing the steps to help their members tackle the cost of specialty medications and other drugs.
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 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.
FASENRA® (benralizumab) injection, for subcutaneous use, 30 mg is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA). FASENRA provides a treatment option for HCPs to consider when managing this challenging disease.
“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.
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 […]