Digital Health Literacy as a Social Determinant of Health

In this article, Kat Jercich summarizes the 2021 conference of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange. During the conference, experts addressed how digital health literacy affects patient outcomes. In addition, they discussed how institutions and clinical teams can make patient-facing tools more health literate.


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Ethics
Topic
Social Determinants of Health
Audience
Health Care Professionals, Organizational Leaders and Administrators
Setting
Hospitals and Health Systems, Digital Health and Telehealth
Level
Applied