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Health Literacy Innovations Announces New HLA Online in Spanish
“El Asesor de Comunicación en Salud”

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 launch of the Health Literacy Advisor Online, English/Spanish, El Asesor de Comunicación en Salud.™ 

 

With the launch of this leading-edge health literacy platform, Spanish-speaking health communicators now have a web-based, multi-lingual tool to help comply with challenging health literacy and plain language accreditation standards, mandates, and regulations

 

“The market asked for an interactive, web-based multi-lingual tool – we  responded,” says HLA Chief Content Expert and Multilingual Director Aracely Rosales.

 

“At a time when managed care plans and others are trying to improve their health equity and patient engagement  responsibilities, the  El Asesor de Comunicación en Salud gives the marketplace a simple new tool to help health care providers communicate information in a way consumers can understand and act on,” says Rosales. 

 

In addition to enhanced accessibility, the English/Spanish 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 HLA Online includes enhanced safety features, two-factor authentication and other safeguards plus basic great functions of the HLA Desktop. 

 

 

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 (HLI) Chief Content Expert Aracely Rosales
Named to Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Advisory Panel

Bethesda, Md (August 10, 2022) — Health Literacy Innovations Chief Content Expert Aracely Rosales has been appointed by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) as a member of its Advisory Panel on Patient Engagement. 

 

Effectively immediately, Rosales will join other members of the panel in applying her experience and expertise to helping PCORI refine and prioritize the research it funds. Rosales will also ensure that the research PCORI supports centers on the outcomes that matter to patients and other healthcare decision makers, especially when it comes to patient engagement. 

 

Rosales was selected based on her experience, expertise and ability to contribute to the panel's mission and experience in health literacy and plain language and how she helps others combat low health literacy through HLI's premiere software program, the Health Literacy Advisor. 

 

Panel members represent a broad range of healthcare stakeholder groups and perspectives, including patients, family caregivers, clinicians, drug and device makers and researchers, among others. 

 

"I am honored to be part of PCORI Advisory Panel on Patient Engagement. I am I confident I will bring a voice of patients, their families and caretakers as well as those health literacy professionals I represent," says Rosales. 

 

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 http://www.healthliteracyinnovations.com or contact sales@healthliteracyinnovations.com.

 

About PCORI

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is an independent nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010. Its mission is to fund research that will provide patients, their caregivers and clinicians with the evidence-based information needed to make better-informed healthcare decisions. PCORI is committed to continually seeking input from a broad range of stakeholders to guide its work.

Health Literacy Innovations (HLI) Announces New Strategic Alliance with
Virginia Community Healthcare Association (VCHA)
Offers Discounted Pricing to Members

(Bethesda, MD), February, 23rd  2021 -- 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 an alliance with Virginia Community Healthcare Association (VCHA), whose members include Virginia’s Community Health Centers.

HLI will work with VCHA members to reinforce the importance of combatting low health literacy, a dangerous and growing public health issue that impacts health outcomes and costs, and how HLI's tool, the Health Literacy Advisor (HLA) can help member simplify complicated health information and increase patient engagement.

As part of this strategic partnership, HLI will offer VCHA members discounted pricing for all HLA licenses – the English and English/Spanish HLA versions and both two platforms, the HLA Desktop (add-in to Microsoft Word,)  and the HLA Online (web-based version).

 Knowing that "literacy" is the single most important indicator of a health outcome, HLI is excited to work with VHCA member health centers to help ensure the creation of health information that all consumers can read, act, and understand," says HLI's Chief Content Director Aracely Rosales. 

 "We know that our members want health literacy support and look forward to introducing them to this innovative tool so they can help their patients   better understand their health and the solutions that can improve it,”  says Tracy Douglas-Wheeler, VCHA Chief Executive Officer. We look forward to helping guide the people of the Commonwealth to better health outcomes.”

 

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 of 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 (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 languages and platforms, including a web-based model. 

 

As a "health literacy checker," the HLA revolutionizes the labor-intensive health literacy review process by using technology to blend best-in-class health literacy and plain language tools and strategies: readability, usability, actionability, assessment, interactive search-and-replace, plain language thesaurus, resources and guides for design, and more. Combined, these features make the HLA the most comprehensive health literacy tool in the market today, a powerful ally to help health care providers comply with health literacy and plain language regulatory and compliance standards, and an effective tool to enhance patient engagement.  For more information, please email sales@healthliteracyinnovations.com or call 301-230-4966.

 

About VCHA

Virginia Community Healthcare Association (VCHA) is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 corporation, representing 30 member organizations that operate over 150 primary care, dental, and behavioral health clinics, throughout Virginia.

Health Literacy Innovations Announces New 15% Discount on Bundle Pricing

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 a new bundle pricing option, offering a 15% discount for those that purchase the HLA Desktop and HLA Online together.

“Given the evolving workplace and our vision to offer great flexibility to the marketplace, we now offer a discounted price option for our customers that want to “health literize” information (both from their desktop and online,) anywhere, anytime,” says HLI’s Chief Content and Multicultural Director Aracely Rosales.

 

About Health Literacy Innovations (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 languages and platforms, including a web-based model. 

 

As a "health literacy checker," the HLA revolutionizes the labor-intensive health literacy review process by using technology to blend best-in-class health literacy and plain language tools and strategies:  readability, usability, actionability, assessment, interactive search-and-replace, plain language thesaurus, resources and guides for design, and more.

 

Combined, these features make the HLA the most comprehensive health literacy tool in the market today, a powerful ally to help health care providers comply with health literacy and plain language regulatory and compliance standards, and an effective tool to enhance patient engagement. For more information, please contact sales@healthliteracyinnovations.com, visit www.healthliteracyinnovations.com or call 301-230-4966.

 

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.

Health Literacy Innovations Celebrates Health Literacy Month Offers
buy one new Health Literacy Advisor (HLA) License, Get one Free

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

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)

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

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

 

 

To help the health care industry better communicate COVID-19,
Health Literacy Innovations Announces a Super Sale!

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.

Health Literacy Innovations & the Cancer Patient Education Network
Announce A New Strategic Relationship

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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Health Literacy Innovations Supports Health Literacy Month
-- Announces New Sale, Complimentary Licenses to Qualified Applicants

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

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.

Do Consumers Understand Their Health Terms? New Survey Suggests Not

March 7th, 2014 – (Bethesda, Md) When it comes to understanding basic health information, many Americans do not understand simple terms, even some of America's biggest chronic conditions, so says a new survey from Health Literacy Innovations (HLI), a company that creates tools to eliminate confusion from low health literacy.

Using Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a crowdsourcing Internet site, HLI asked 1,000 respondents to define 21 health terms. Some of the respondents offered correct definitions for some of the terms, yet many did not know what these terms meant or gave incorrect answers.

When asked to define "hypertension,' 53.7% of those surveyed defined it as "high blood pressure." Yet, 12% "did not know" and another 9.8% defined hypertension as high blood sugar, a potentially dangerous wrong description, especially in a medical emergency. Other findings include:

Melanoma

  • 59.2% defined melanoma as "skin cancer;" 15% defined it as "cancer"
  • 11.3% "did not know"

Myocardial Infarction

  • 64.5% defined "acute myocardial infarction" as "heart attack"
  • 8.3% "did not know"
  • 2.4% defined it as a "body part"

Hyperglycemia

  • 59.4% defined "hyperglycemia" as "high blood sugar"
  • 13% "did not know"
  • 7% defined it as "diabetes"

Edema

  • 44.7% defined edema as "swelling of a body part due to fluid retention"
  • 29.7% "did not know"
  • 24% defined it as a "body part"

Benign

  • 64.9% defined benign as "not very harmful"
  • 16.4% "did not know"
  • 13.5% defined it as "very severe"

Other consumer responses included:

  • Bilateral: 16.9% "did not know"; 2.3% defined it as an "Illness"
  • Analgesic: 24.5% "did not know"
  • Angina: 28.9% "did not know"; 3% defined it as a "body part"
  • Transdermal: 12.2% "did not know"; 8% said it was "skin issue"

"Given the complexity of the health care environment, it’s no surprise that many consumers are confused about simple health terms," says HLI's Chief Content Director Aracely Rosales. "Having good health literacy -- understanding basic health information, and how to read, act on, and follow information -- is crucial for America’s consumers, especially those new to health care via the Affordable Care Act. HLI’s Health Literacy Advisor, a comprehensive health literacy software tool, can help health care providers to explain simple health terms while creating industry standardization.

We’d like to hope that all consumers know the difference between hypertension and hyperglycemia, yet until that happens we remain committed to helping providers create simple information to help consumers understand their health care," says Rosales. For more information about Health Literacy Innovations, please visit www.HealthLiteracyInnovations.com or contact 301-230-4966.

Health Literacy Innovations (HLI) Launches the REDA – A New Suitability Measurement

October 31st, 2013 – (Bethesda, Md) To add the final steps in the health literacy review process, Health Literacy Innovations (HLI), a company that creates tools to help eliminate confusion from low health literacy, today announces the REDA – the ReadsEasy™ Document Assessment, a new feature within its flagship product, the Health Literacy Advisor (HLA).

The REDA, which focuses on factors that affect readability and comprehension, includes a suitability checklist to assess cultural appropriateness, layout, design, organization, graphics, numeracy, use of plain language and usability testing.

Available only within the HLA, the REDA scores materials on eight elements of plain language, readability goals, and the use of long sentences and of long words. An electronic plain language checklist tallies users’ answers to produce a final REDA score. This score and accompanying traffic-light icon symbol rating lets HLA users know if their document meets plain language and suitability standards or, if not, which elements need refinement.

"Because even easy-to-read health information may still be complicated for the low literacy reader, HLI is excited to add the REDA to the HLA as another step to ensure that consumer health materials are suitable (understandable)," says, Health Literacy Innovations Content Expert & Multilingual Director Aracely Rosales. "Combined with HLA’s readability assessments and search-and-replace functions, HLA users now have a one-stop health literacy tool to examine and assess the comprehension and readability of consumer health information," Rosales says.

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™) is the nation's first, only, and most powerful 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.

Health Literacy Innovations Announces Free Health Literacy Webinars

October 1st, 2013 – (Bethesda, Md) In celebration of October – Health Literacy Month – Health Literacy Innovations, creators of the Health Literacy Advisor, the nation’s first interactive health literacy software (in English and Spanish) today announces its free October health literacy series.

To enroll, please visit HealthLiteracyInnovations/resources/webinars

The 2013 October Health Literacy webinar series includes:

"Understanding Health Literacy, Ten Reasons Why We Can’t Afford to Ignore It"
• Presenter: Aracely Rosales, Content Expert & Multilingual Director, Health Literacy Innovations
• Tuesday October 8th, 2-3 p.m. EDT

"Implementing a Health Literacy Precaution Kit"
• Presenter: Leigh F. Callahan, PhD, Mary Link Briggs Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Professor of Social Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Tuesday October 15th , 2-3 p.m. EDT

"The Role of Health Literacy in Disease Management: Implications for Intervention Design"
• Presenter: Melissa A. Valerio, PhD, MPH, Interim Dean San Antonio Regional Campus, Associate Professor University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston
• Thursday October 17th, 2-3 p.m. EDT

"Addressing Health Literacy and Cultural Competence"
• Presenter: Speaker: Kate Singleton, MSW, LCSW, Health Literacy Consultant for Adult Education, Social Work, and Health Care
• Tuesday October 22nd, 2-3 p.m. EDT

"Health Insurance Literacy and the ACA"
• Is It Now Easier or Harder Enroll in Coverage? What Does a Health Insurance Consumer Need to Know?"
• Presenter: Lynn Quincy, Senior Policy Analyst, Consumers Union
• Thursday October 24th, 2-3 p.m. EDT

"Creating a Health Literacy Initiative"
• Presenter: Athena D. Bennett, BA, CC, CL, Health Literacy and Plain Language SME, Training Analyst, Quality and Accreditation, Accordant, A CVS Caremark Company
• Tuesday October 29th, 2-3 p.m. EDT

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™) is the nation's first, only, and most powerful 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.

Health Literacy Innovations Launches the 4th Annual
Leonard G. Doak Health Literacy Innovator Contest

Bethesda, Maryland — July 22, 2013. Health Literacy Innovations (HLI), creator of the Health Literacy Advisor, the nation's first interactive health literacy software tool (in English and Spanish), today launches the 4th annual National Health Literacy Innovators Award.

The contest, a national competition to reward innovators in health literacy, seeks the nation's best health literacy practices in print, in practice, and in the media.

It is open to any company, organization or individual that can demonstrate excellence in health literacy in one of the three contest categories. Contest winners, one per category, receive three annual licenses of the Health Literacy Advisor. The deadline is September 9, 2013.

For information on contest rules and application forms, please visit