JMIR has released a new article in its News and Perspectives section, examining the legal and ethical complexities of the right to explanation for patients in the era of artificial intelligence. The ...

Digital technologies, from telemedicine and AI to social media, are now deeply embedded in public health systems, healthcare delivery, and everyday health ...

In the rush to digitize care through AI, telehealth and predictive analytics, many organizations have overlooked a fundamental variable that determines whether any of these innovations succeed: health ...

As health information and services become increasingly digital, it is more important than ever that people can find, understand, evaluate and use health information in everyday life.

Project Link is an international nonprofit organization with a chapter at UW. Founded in 2023, its mission is to bridge gaps in medical advancements and provide members with insight to medical issues ...

Assessing health literacy levels soon after hospital admission and adjusting discharge instructions accordingly helped reduce ...

Adult literacy advocate Toni Cordell recounts the story of feeling comforted when her doctor told her that her medical concern could be solved with an easy surgery. She agreed to proceed without ...

The Roundtable on Health Literacy will host a one-day public workshop, featuring presentations and discussions about the implications of health literacy for discharge instructions, in in-patient and ...

The ACA will directly impact individuals and their interactions with the health care system in many ways. In the context of the commissioned paper (described in Chapter 2 and available in Appendix C), ...