Blogs

Making Free Health Clinics More Accessible Free clinics have a massive potential to serve the healthcare needs of uninsured and underinsured individuals. But there’s a major issue that needs to be solved. By Reyhan Haider Free clinics have the potential to be a lifeline for the over 26 million uninsured and millions more underinsured individuals in the U.S. Yet, despite their importance, these clinics are often underutilized . One of the critical reasons for this is the pervasive ...

Shaping a Health Literate Organization By Greg O’Neill , MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, NPD-BC, NEA-BC Stakeholder : What is it that you do here? Me : I boil the ocean, one cup at a time. As a champion of health literacy, you want to make your own organization more health literate. As we learn more about how to help patients, families, and communities understand their health and take action to improve their quality of life, a few things become clear: Becoming a health literate ...

AI Solutions Hub: Navigating the AI and Health Literacy Nexus By Michael Villaire, MSLM We welcome you to explore a new hub on the Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA) Health Literacy Solutions Center: AI Solutions Hub: Navigating the AI and Health Literacy Nexus . AI raises questions that have worked their way into the national (and international) conversation, such as: What is it? Is it dangerous? How can it help me? ...