Description: This session defines digital health literacy and its prevalence. It explains why addressing digital health literacy has become increasingly more important and how digital health literacy impacts health equity. It discusses the digital health literacy challenges that patients, caregivers, and family members face, and provides evidenced-based and best practices for supporting and coaching patients to meet those challenges.
Objectives:
Understand digital literacy, health literacy, and how the two work together to create digital health literacy demands and challenges for patients.
Evaluate organizational digital health literacy to improve patient care and outcomes.
Implement evidence-based strategies and practices to support patients in meeting digital health literacy challenges.
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