Research Catalog

Title

Health Literacy and Consumer-Facing Technology : workshop summary / Joe Alper, rapporteur ; Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.

Author

Alper, Joe

Publication

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Health Literacy, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb
• Health Literacy and Consumer-Facing Technology (Workshop) (2015 : Washington, D.C.), author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Description

xviii, 104 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

The proliferation of consumer-facing technology and personal health information technology has grown steadily over the past decade, and has certainly exploded over the past several years. Many people have embraced smartphones and wearable health-monitoring devices to track their fitness and personal health information. Providers have made it easier for patients and caregivers to access health records and communicate through online patient portals. However, the large volume of health-related information that these devices can generate and input into a health record can also lead to an increased amount of confusion on the part of users and caregivers.

Subject

• Health literacy > United States
• Consumer-driven health care > United States
• Communication in medicine > United States
• Communication in medicine
• Consumer-driven health care
• Health literacy
• United States

Note

• Summary of a workshop by the same name, held March 24, 2015, in Washington, D.C.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-91).

ISBN

• 9780309376907
• 0309376904

OCLC

• ocn928036454
• 928036454
• SCSB-5838448

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries