Unlocking Better Health: The Role of Personal Health Literacy in Medicare Advantage Enrollment
The impact of personal health literacy on seniors
Medicalese in Digital Health – An Accessibility Issue
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.
Unlocking Transparency in PBM Pricing
The TSX Venture Exchange has a strong history of helping early-stage health and life sciences companies raise patient capital for research and development.
How to improve data literacy within healthcare organizations
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.
This doesn’t taste right: What being a pharmacist taught me about health literacy
The cost to the healthcare system and to employers due to low health literacy is exorbitant, estimated at up to $236 billion annually.
Some medical associations are backing away from Outcome Health
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.
What’s the best way to demystify the health insurance experience for newbies?
“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.”
The Impact Brands: Empowering Wellness Through Natural and Holistic Solutions
In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.
Here’s a glimpse of the hospice care experience
Some people are very surprised when they go to inpatient hospice, are stabilized and told to go home.
Want to improve care transitions? Health literacy needs to be a priority
What is health literacy? It is a movement for health equity.
Comcast: Build healthcare innovation on ‘reality,’ not existing system
To Shawn Leavitt, senior vice president of global benefits for Comcast and NBCUniversal, current attempts to rein in healthcare spending are not working.
Pediatrics study shows vaccine reminders with explanation increased visits
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 […]
When Investment Rhymes with Canada
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
Understanding health insurance is like learning a foreign language for many new enrollees
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 […]
Health literacy: Once we get our data, will we know what to do with it?
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 […]