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Digital Health Literacy: How Case Managers Can Help Narrow the Digital Divide

BY MARY BETH NEWMAN, MSN, RN, CMGT-BC, CCM
A rapidly growing area of competency for effective case management is digital health. To improve proficiency in this area, professional case managers must not only be knowledgeable about the types of digital health technologies available, but also ensure that their patients are able to use and benefit from these technologies as well. How can this be realized? Digital health literacy is the key.

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Health Literacy: Make Materials Work as Hard as You Do

BY SYLVIA ARUFFO, PhD “I tell all my patients how to do selfcare. It’s up to them whether they adhere or not.” This is the equality approach to patient education: Everyone gets the same instructions. More literate patients are likely to succeed. But patients with health literacy deficits are not. To…