Testing patients for levels of health literacy holds potential for improving physician-patient communication, according to a study published in Surgery. The study authors administered a two-minute ...

Fred Hutch Cancer Center’s goal is to do more than just provide medical care to every patient. Providers and staff strive to educate patients and give them insights they need to make informed ...

“Frank, you’ve got coronary heart disease,” said the cardiologist at Duke Health, during an anxiety-filled visit. “But don’t worry, we’ve got just the thing to help you manage it at home.” “Betty, you ...

Researchers have created a new tool, ELAXIR, to improve AI literacy and raise awareness of the ethical challenges of using AI ...

Several evidence-based health literacy resources may be beneficial in health plan settings to improve organizational health literacy, personal health literacy, and health equity. Objectives: Numerous ...

General literacy is widely understood as an important skill that must be prioritized to ensure that people can live healthy and successful lives. In our medical field we also have patient literacy, ...

A Commonwealth Fund–supported study examined whether mobile apps are appealing and accessible to low-income, low-health literacy patients suffering from chronic conditions. The observational study ...

Objective: To understand patient portal engagement stratified by patient characteristics among adults 50 years and older with at least 1 common chronic medical condition using electronic health ...

Historically, patient-reported outcome measures were primarily utilized for research purposes in orthopedics.However, renewed ...

This post is sponsored by Chiesi USA, Inc. Most people with asthma have the allergic type — in which pollen, smoke, and other environmental factors can trigger attacks. But while these patients ...

For most patients, a diagnosis is just the beginning of an uncertain journey filled with long wait times, fragmented information and high anxiety. AI-enhanced diagnostics help by dramatically speeding ...