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Patients can ask 3 simple questions to improve doctor-patient communication. And doctors need encouragement and compensation for taking time to assure their patients understand healthcare issues and instructions.
Read ArticleDepressed parents’ health literacy skills can improve through home visitation per a recent study using open access public data.
Read ArticleAs mentioned previously, health literacy is “the ability to get information, understand it, and use information to lower risk and better health.” People “with low health literacy are more likely to report poor health, have an incomplete understanding of their health problems and treatment, and are at greater risk of hospitalization” (Pawlak, 2005). Many organizations, […]
Read ArticleThe Doctor’s Toolbag is an evidence-based clinical decision support app for iPhone and iPod touch. iMedicalApps offers a good review of its strengths and weaknesses.
Read ArticleNew online decision tool from Stanford for women at risk of breast and ovarian cancer due to BRCA gene mutation.
Read ArticleDiscussion of recent research article on the strengths and weaknesses of health literacy as a topic.
Read ArticleA new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) “surveyed the 68 executive directors of all medical and osteopathic boards in the United States and its territories about violations of online professionalism reported to them.” Of those that responded, 92% indicated at least one of a list of online professional violations had […]
Read ArticleAs a regular reader of the iMedicalApps blog, I was excited by the title of a recent posting: “If you don’t have an iPad, go to the medical library and borrow one.” The post goes on to highlight three U.S. schools that check out iPads to physicians: Nova Southeastern University (NSU), Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), […]
Read ArticleToday is Snapshot Day 2012 at Eccles Library, in conjunction with National Library Week.
Read ArticleFound a concise definition of “health literacy,” and a thoughtful YouTube video as well.
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