2. • Show the awareness of consumers
• Use of smartphones to track health status
• consumers access of access to HIT
GOALS
3. The objectives of this project is to bring awareness to consumer education and ways to improve consumers
education
OBJECTIVES
4. • What is Literacy:
• The institute of medicine defines Health Literacy as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to
obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health
decisions,” (Health Literacy).
• 4 levels: below basic, basic, intermediate, and proficient
• Factors that contributes to consumers literacy levels
• Culture
• Income levels
1. WHAT IS CONSUMER EDUCATION ON HEALTH
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (LITERACY)?
5. • Culture
• Minorities & Immigrants
• approximately 36 percent of adults in the US have limited health literacy, 22 percent have basic and 14 percent have below basic
literacy, 5 percent of the population is not literate in English while 12 percent of the population has a proficient health literacy
levels. (health literacy)
• Income levels
FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTES TO CONSUMERS
LITERACY LEVELS
6. Patient engagement is important because it allows the patient (consumer) to be responsible for that health. It is
especially important for those who have chronic illnesses.
Barriers
• Access
• Low health literacy
• Health disparities
• Financial disincentives in healthcare system
• limited EHR portal access
PATIENT ENGAGEMENT
Source: Washington, 2014
7. 2. HOW MANY CONSUMERS USE WEARABLES TO KEEP
TRACK OF THEIR HEALTH?
Source: Safavi & Ratliff, 2016
8. • This graph shows how many consumers own a
fitness band.
2. HOW MANY CONSUMERS
USE WEARABLES TO KEEP
TRACK OF THEIR HEALTH?
Nielsen
9. 3. HOW MANY CONSUMERS
ARE AWARE OF ELECTRONIC
HEALTH RECORDS?
• This graph show how many consumers
are aware of their access to their
medical records
Source: Patel, Barker & Siminerio, 2015
10. CONTINUE
• This graph shows what consumers used
to monitor their health online
Patel, Barker & Siminerio, 2015
15. • Nielsen. (2014, April 16). Hacking Health: How Consumers use Smartphones and wearable tech to track their
health. Retrieved November 1, 2016 from http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2014/hacking-health-
how-consumers-use-smartphones-and-wearable-tech-to-track-their-health.html
• Patel, V., Barker, W., & Siminerio, E. (2015, October). Trends in Consumer Access and Use of Electronic Health
Information. HealthIT.gov. Retrieved November 1, 2016 from http://dashboard.healthit.gov/evaluations/data-
briefs/trends-consumer-access-use-electronic-health-information.php
• Safavi, K & Ratliff, R. (2016). Research shows patients in the United States wants a heavy dose of digital. Retrieved
November 1, 2016 from
• https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-research-shows-patients-united-states-want-heavy
• Seckin, G., Yeatts, D., Hughes, S., Hudson, C. and Bell, V. (2016, July 11). Being an Informed Consumer of Health
Information and Assessment of Electronic Health Literacy in a National Sample of Internet Users: Validity and
Reliability of the e-HLS Instrument. Retrieved November 1, 2016 from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4960406/
• Washington, L. (2014, February). Enabling Consumer and Patient Engagement with Health Information. Journal of
AHIMA 85, no. 2, pp.56-59. Retrieved November 1, 2016 from http://bok.ahima.org/doc?oid=300227#.WB4y0-
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Editor's Notes
Speaker notes: the goal of this project is to present information that shows how many consumers use wearables, have access to their medical records and ways to improve
Speaker notes: the objective is to answer these three questions: 1. What is consumer education on health information technology (literacy)? 2. How many consumers use wearables to keep track of their health? 3. How many consumers are aware of electronic health records?
The two main factors that contribute to the consumers literacy level is culture and income level.
Minorities and immigrants are two groups of the population that are most affected by low income and low literacy level. Minorities & immigrants scored the lowest on health level literacy they scored below basic. The report show that adults living below poverty level had lower average of health literacy than those who lived above poverty, 30 percent of adults who received Medicaid scored below basic while people with chronic mental or physical health who reported their health status as poor (42 percent) and as fair (33 percent) both scored below basic.
These barriers stops full engagement for patients. According to the article “Enabling Consumer and Patient Engagement with Health Information ”patient engagement is a powerful tool and how consumer/patient engagement is what will help healthcare providers can improve and support them.
Speaker notes: Nielsen surveyed consumers to view how many users or non-users have interest in connected life report. this graph shows the gender, age and the household income of consumers that own wearable devices. as you can see,
Speaker notes: as you can see from the graph, that 27 percent of consumer surveyed were unaware of their rights while 73 percent; 21 percent were unaware of having online access to their records while 44 percent was aware.
Speaker notes: as you can see from the graph, the arrow shows a breakdown of the percentages of consumers