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Health Literacy Innovations Celebrates Health Literacy Month
Offers buy one new Health Literacy Advisor (HLA) License, Get one Free
(Bethesda, MD) October 12, 2021 In celebration of Health Literacy Month (October) Health Literacy Innovations (HLI), a leading health literacy company that creates tools to help eliminate medical mistakes and confusion due to low health literacy, today announces it will offer new license holders, free licenses.
“Our vision is to create a health literate, jargon-free community for all health care consumers,” says HLA Chief Content Expert and Multilingual Director Aracely Rosales. “By availing more Health Literacy Advisor licenses and enhancing access to this tool, we are hoping to help more health communicators create plain language.”
About Health Literacy
The U.S health care system maintains one of the most sophisticated health care delivery systems in the world. However, in spite of the many advances in treatment and technology, a major barrier exists: Nearly half all U.S. adults lack the skills necessary to read, understand, and act on their own health such as how to take their medications or understand basic health care instructions. This issue is known as low health literacy. Low health literacy is a stronger predictor of health status than age, income, employment, education, race, or ethnicity. An estimated 80 million Americans have low health literacy, which not only causes medical errors, high rates of hospitalization, death, and poor health care outcomes, but is estimated to cost the U.S. economy up to $236 billion annually.
About Health Literacy Innovations
Health Literacy Innovations (HLI) creates tools to reduce medical mistakes, unnecessary health care costs, and poor health outcomes from low health literacy. HLI’s flagship product, the Health Literacy Advisor™ (HLA) (in Spanish–Asesor de Comunicación en Salud™), is a state-of-the-art interactive health literacy software tool available in multiple platforms, including a web-based model. As a “health literacy checker,” the HLA revolutionizes the labor-intensive health literacy review process by leveraging powerful software to help communicators evaluate, standardize, and produce clear health information. The uniquely-built HLA blends best-in-class features for plain language and health literacy compliance that include English and Spanish readability indices, an interactive plain language search-and-replace function, usability, and document assessment tools that rewards users for good work, and more.
For more information, please visit http://www.healthliteracyinnovations.com, contact sales@healthliteracyinnovations.com or call 301-230-4966.
Health Literacy Innovations Announces the Health Literacy Advisor Online,
a New Web-Based Interactive Health Literacy Tool
The HLA Online Helps to Simplify Complicated, Confusing Information for Health Consumer
(Bethesda, MD) August 13, 2021 Health Literacy Innovations (HLI), a health literacy company that creates tools to reduce medical mistakes and confusion due to low health literacy today, announces the next generation of the Health Literacy Advisor (HLA): the HLA Online, a new web-based HLA.
The HLA Online, which now supports MACs, tablets, smart phones and is accessible from any device with an Internet connection, reflects the market need for an interactive web-based health literacy and readability tool.
“With the launch of the new HLA Online, we are changing the pulse of health literacy technology,” says HLA Chief Content Expert and Multilingual Director Aracely Rosales. “The new HLA Online will be a game changer for health communicators and those trying to meet tough Medicaid health literacy and plain language standards.”
In addition to enhanced accessibility, the new HLA Online offers a new quick select and replace word feature, integration with other applications, and customization options to include company-specific information such as lexicon and taglines. Entirely HIPAA compliant, the new HLA Online includes enhanced safety features such as two-factor authentication, safeguards to protect information, as well as the standard HLA Desktop capabilities to evaluate readability, plain language, and suitability.
About Health Literacy
The U.S health care system maintains one of the most sophisticated health care delivery systems in the world. However, in spite of the many advances in treatment and technology, a major barrier exists: Nearly half all U.S. adults lack the skills necessary to read, understand, and act on their own health such as how to take their medications or understand basic health care instructions. This issue is known as low health literacy. Low health literacy is a stronger predictor of health status than age, income, employment, education, race, or ethnicity. An estimated 80 million Americans have low health literacy, which not only causes medical errors, high rates of hospitalization, death, and poor health care outcomes, but is estimated to cost the U.S. economy up to $236 billion annually.
About Health Literacy Innovations
Health Literacy Innovations (HLI) creates tools to reduce medical mistakes, unnecessary health care costs, and poor health outcomes from low health literacy. HLI’s flagship product, the Health Literacy Advisor™ (HLA) (in Spanish–Asesor de Comunicación en Salud™), is a state-of-the-art interactive health literacy software tool available in multiple platforms, including a web-based model. As a “health literacy checker,” the HLA revolutionizes the labor-intensive health literacy review process by leveraging powerful software to help communicators evaluate, standardize, and produce clear health information. The uniquely-built HLA blends best-in-class features for plain language and health literacy compliance that include English and Spanish readability indices, an interactive plain language search-and-replace function, usability, and document assessment tools that rewards users for good work, and more. For more information, please visit http://www.healthliteracyinnovations.com, contact sales@healthliteracyinnovations.com or call 301-230-4966.
Health Literacy Innovations Becomes 2021 Affiliate Organization
Member of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
The company’s affiliate membership reflects its commitment to payers and health plans and is a testament to its efforts to work together with the payer ecosystem
(Bethesda, MD) July 13, 2021 Health Literacy Innovations (HLI), a health literacy company that creates tools to help eliminate medical mistakes and confusion due to low health literacy has joined America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) as its 2021 Affiliate Organization Member.
HLI, creator of the Health Literacy Advisor (HLA), the nation’s only interactive health literacy tool will support AHIP members by sharing best industry health literacy practices, helping them to understand on new and emerging trends in health literacy, and provide discount pricing of the HLA to AHIP members.
“The partnership with AHIP, especially given the pandemic when patient information and access has become even more critical, furthers our goals to develop and advance health literacy practices to improve access, education, and delivery of quality health care to cancer patients,” says HLA Chief Content Expert and Multilingual Director Aracely Rosales. “We are excited to forge ahead with our vision consumers to make consumer information easy-to-read and understandable so all Americans can understand, read, and act on their health care information, ” Rosales concludes.
About Health Literacy
The U.S health care system maintains one of the most sophisticated health care delivery systems in the world. However, in spite of the many advances in treatment and technology a major barrier exists – nearly half all U.S. adults lack the skills necessary to read, understand and act on their own health, such as how to take their medications or understand basic health care instructions. This issue is known as low health literacy. Low health literacy is a stronger predictor of health status than age, income, employment, education, race, or ethnicity. An estimated 80 million Americans have low health literacy, which not only causes medical errors, increased illness and disability, high rates of hospitalization and death, and poor health care outcomes, but is estimated to cost the U.S. economy up to $236 billion every year.
About HLI
Health Literacy Innovations (HLI) creates tools to reduce medical mistakes, unnecessary health care costs, and poor health outcomes from low health literacy. HLI’s flagship product, the Health Literacy Advisor™ (HLA) (in Spanish–Asesor de Comunicación en Salud™), is a state-of-the-art interactive health literacy software tool, available in multiple platforms, including a web-based model. As a “health literacy checker,” the HLA revolutionizes the labor-intensive health literacy review process by leveraging powerful software to help communicators evaluate, standardize, and produce clear health information. Uniquely built — the HLA blends best-in-class features for plain language and health literacy compliance, that include English and Spanish Readability Indices, an interactive Search-and-Replace function that offers plain language options for difficult-to-understand terms (eliminating the need for time-consuming copy, cut, and pastes), Usability and Document Assessment Tools that rewards users for good work, and more. For more information, visit www.healthliteracyinnovations.com or contact info@healthliteracyinnovations.com
Health Literacy Innovations and the
Cancer Patient Education Network Announce Strategic Alliance
(Bethesda, MD) July 6, 2021 Health Literacy Innovations (HLI), a health literacy company that creates tools to reduce medical mistakes and confusion due to low health literacy and the Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN), a non-profit professional organization that shares best practices in all aspects of cancer patient education, today announces a renewed strategic alliance.
HLI, creator of the Health Literacy Advisor (HLA), the nation’s only interactive health literacy tool, will support CPEN members by offering webinars to share best industry health literacy practices, assist them on new and emerging trends in health literacy, and provide discount pricing of the HLA to all CPEN members.
“The partnership with CPEN, especially given the pandemic when patient information and access has become even more critical, furthers our goals to develop and advance health literacy practices to improve access, education, and delivery of quality health care to cancer patients,” says HLA Chief Content Expert and Multilingual Director Aracely Rosales. “We are excited to forge ahead with our vision with CPEN members both in the U.S. and Canada to make all health information easy-to-read and understandable,” Rosales concludes.
“Studies clearly show effective patient education leads to better clinical outcomes, improved quality of life, fewer hospitalizations, and lower costs. As cancer patient educators, our goal is to create materials and delivery systems that are usable and valuable for all patients and caregivers. We look forward to working with HLI and to offer our members discounted access to the HLA, an innovative health literacy software tool”, says Laura Carr, CPEN Chair-Elect, Patient Education Program Manager, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
About Health Literacy
The U.S health care system maintains one of the most sophisticated health care delivery systems in the world. However, in spite of the many advances in treatment and technology a major barrier exists – nearly half all U.S. adults lack the skills necessary to read, understand and act on their own health, such as how to take their medications or understand basic health care instructions. This issue is known as low health literacy. Low health literacy is a stronger predictor of health status than age, income, employment, education, race, or ethnicity. An estimated 80 million Americans have low health literacy, which not only causes medical errors, increased illness and disability, high rates of hospitalization and death, and poor health care outcomes, but is estimated to cost the U.S. economy up to $236 billion every year.
About HLI
Health Literacy Innovations (HLI) creates tools to reduce medical mistakes, unnecessary health care costs, and poor health outcomes from low health literacy. HLI’s flagship product, the Health Literacy Advisor™ (HLA) (in Spanish–Asesor de Comunicación en Salud™), is a state-of-the-art interactive health literacy software tool, available in multiple platforms, including a web-based model. As a “health literacy checker,” the HLA revolutionizes the labor-intensive health literacy review process by leveraging powerful software to help communicators evaluate, standardize, and produce clear health information. Uniquely built — the HLA blends best-in-class features for plain language and health literacy compliance that include English and Spanish Readability Indices, an interactive Search-and-Replace function that offers plain language options for difficult-to-understand terms (eliminating the need for time-consuming copy, cut, and pastes), Usability and Document Assessment Tools that rewards users for good work, and more. For more information, please visit www.healthliteracyinnovations or contact sales@healthliteracyinnovations.com.
About CPEN
The Cancer Patient Education Network was founded in 1989 by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a structure for strengthening cancer education through collaboration with patient educators at NCI-designated Cancer Centers in the U.S. Recognizing the value of CPEN for those working in cancer patient education, and wishing to broaden their reach to a larger audience of patient educators, CPEN established itself as an independent professional organization in July 2005, extending its reach to anyone with an interest in cancer education. Canada became the first international chapter for CPEN in 2007. Through their work and collaboration, educators reach their goal of delivering effective education to patients and their families, which is essential for achieving optimum outcomes for cancer patients. The use of evidence-based best practices in patient and family education has contributed to the ongoing global efforts to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality. For more information, please contact info@cancerpatienteducation.org
Bethesda, Maryland (February 12, 2021)
To help the health care industry better communicate COVID-19, Health Literacy Innovations, creators of the Health Literacy Advisor (HLA), an interactive health literacy software (in English and Spanish), today announces all new HLA licenses will be $214 (a Valentine’s Day’s treat), a more than 50% savings off the current list prices.
“We trust offering the HLA at a drastically reduced price will help the health care industry and its constituents maintain simple and clear communications as we continue to endure COVID-19”, says HLI Chief Content Expert Aracely Rosales.
About Health Literacy Innovations
Health Literacy Innovations (HLI) creates tools to help eliminate medical mistakes and confusion due to low health literacy. HLI’s flagship product, the Health Literacy Advisor™ (in Spanish–Asesor de Comunicación en Salud™), an add-in to Microsoft Word is an interactive health literacy software tool. As a “health literacy checker,” the HLA streamlines the review and simplification process by allowing users to assess the readability of their documents and then fix it using plain language principles. The HLA applies nine well-known readability indices in English and six indices in Spanish and an interactive search-and-replace function to eliminate hard-to-read terms and phrases and medical jargon with plain language alternatives. The combination of these two functions, a document “grade” with a readability score/grade level, and the ReadsEasy™ stamp (a reward for good work) sets the HLA software apart from programs or readability indices alone.
For more information, please visit www.healthliteracyinnovations.com or contact info@healthliteracyinnovations.com or 301-230-4966.
Bethesda, Maryland (PRWEB) October 12, 2017
Health Literacy Innovations (HLI), creator of the Health Literacy Advisor (HLA), the nation's first interactive health literacy software tool, and the Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN), an independent professional organization that shares best practices in all aspects of cancer patient education, today announce a new strategic alliance.
As CPEN's strategic partner, HLI will help support CPEN members by sharing best industry health literacy practices, assisting them on new and emerging trends in health literacy, and providing discount pricing of the HLA to all CPEN members.
"Studies clearly show effective patient education translates to better clinical outcomes, improved quality of life, fewer hospitalizations, and lower costs. As cancer patient educators, our goal is to create materials and delivery systems that are usable and valuable for all patients and caregivers. We look forward to working with HLI and to offering our members discounted access to the HLA, an innovative health literacy software tool", says Faith Addiss, RN, CPEN Chair.
"Our new partnership with CPEN advances our joint goals to develop and advance health literacy practices in cancer care and maintain strategies that improve access, education, and delivery of quality health care to cancer patients," states HLA Chief Content Expert and Multilingual Director Aracely Rosales. "We look forward to a productive and exciting new partnership with CPEN," she concludes.
About Health Literacy
In the U.S., an individual's ability to understand and act on medical instructions and information - "health literacy" is a stronger predictor of health status than age, income, employment, education, race, or ethnicity. Studies reveal gaps between the way health information is presented and the ability of most Americans to understand and act on their health care. Low health literacy puts consumers at risk: people with poor health literacy remain in the hospital more days per admission, have increased ER and doctors' visits, and even earlier deaths.
About HLI
Knowing that "literacy" is the single most important indicator of a health outcome, Health Literacy Innovations (HLI), creates tools to help eliminate medical mistakes and confusion due to low health literacy. HLI's flagship product, the Health Literacy Advisor (HLA), is the nation's first interactive health literacy software tool. A simple add-in to Microsoft Word, the HLA is revolutionizing a labor-intensive review process with a powerful new software tool to help communicators evaluate, standardize, and produce clear health information. Built with readability indices in both English and Spanish, an interactive search-and-replace function that offers plain language options for difficult-to-understand terms, the REDA, a usability tool, and other features, the HLA is the most comprehensive health literacy tool on the market today. For more information visit www.HealthLiteracyInnovations.com or call 301-230-4966.
About CPEN
The Cancer Patient Education Network was founded in 1989 by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a structure for strengthening cancer education through collaboration with patient educators at NCI-designated Cancer Centers in the U.S. Recognizing the value of CPEN for those working in cancer patient education, and wishing to broaden their reach to a larger audience of patient educators, CPEN established itself as an independent professional organization in July 2005. Canada became the first international chapter for CPEN in 2007. Effective education is essential for achieving optimum outcomes for cancer patients, and the use of evidence-based best practices in patient and family education has contributed to the ongoing national and international efforts to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality.
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Bethesda, Maryland (PRWEB) October 15, 2014
In celebration of October – health literacy month – Health Literacy Innovations, creators of the Health Literacy Advisor (HLA), an interactive health literacy software (in English and Spanish), today announces two new events: a major sale and a new study that offers qualified applicants a free one-month HLA license.
Starting October 1, all copies of the HLA will be discounted by 20% - the HLA English priced at $399 and the HLA English/Spanish $498. Additional discounts of 10, 15, and 20% are offered for 2, 3, and/or 4-year licenses.
HLI also launches a new Evaluation Survey, a brief survey that offers qualified applicants a free-one month evaluation for testing the HLA. To join the study, please contact marketing@healthliteracyinnovations.com
About Health Literacy Innovations
Health Literacy Innovations (HLI) creates tools to help eliminate medical mistakes and confusion due to low health literacy. HLI's flagship product, the Health Literacy Advisor™ (in Spanish--Asesor de Comunicación en Salud™) , an add-in to Microsoft Word is an interactive health literacy software tool. As a "health literacy checker," the HLA streamlines the review and simplification process by allowing users to assess the readability of their documents and then fix it using plain language principles. The HLA applies nine well-known readability indices in English and six indices in Spanish and an interactive search-and-replace function to eliminate hard-to-read terms and phrases and medical jargon with plain language alternatives. The combination of these two functions, a document "grade" with a readability score/grade level, and the ReadsEasy™ stamp (a reward for good work) sets the HLA software apart from programs or readability indices alone. For more information, please visit HealthLiteracyInnovations.com or call 301-230-4966.
