Patient Education Management Archives – February 1, 2011
February 1, 2011
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Literacy coalitions: Fruitful partners in literacy efforts
To improve health literacy, a key factor in effective patient education, medical facilities may want to consider forming partnerships with literacy coalitions in their area. -
Seven goals of health literacy
The seven goals to improve health literacy issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of its National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy are: -
Improve health literacy with presentations
To address the issue of low health literacy, The Humana Foundation is seeking ways to engage consumers at presentations on the subject. Presenters have been particularly successful with seniors, by dumping the PowerPoint and capturing the attention of this group of consumers through interaction. -
Creating an app to educate on melanoma
For a decade, the Mollie Biggane Melanoma Foundation in Garden City, NY, has been educating people about the prevention and early detection of skin cancer and melanoma. -
ACOs emphasize prevention, coordination
As talk of reimbursement reform, pay for performance escalates, and health care stakeholders look at ways to improve patient access and outcomes while reducing waste and costs, payers and providers are joining together to create accountable care organizations (ACOs). -
Insurer, physicians team up for patient care
When CIGNA members being treated by Piedmont Physicians Group in Atlanta are high-risk or noncompliant, Jennifer Farlow, RN, BSN, clinical care coordinator, contacts them and helps them get back on track for regular visits and recommended tests and procedures. -
Use hand cleansers to decrease absenteeism
Use of alcohol-based hand cleansers significantly reduced several common infections and reduced absenteeism in a study of 129 white-collar workers in 2005 to 2006, according to research from the Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine in Greifswald, Germany.