Being dumb about health can double your chances of dying. A presentation made at HigherEdCamp on 6 June, 2009. How can HigherEd help educate the population. Educated and informed health consumers lower costs and lower risks.

1. Health Illiteracy Can Kill You
Mark Scrimshire
@ekivemark

2. To change
health care
we have to put the
Patient
at the center
Mark Scrimshire
@ekivemark

3. Heard in an industry meeting
“The Patient Centered
Medical Home ...
...is centered around
the Physician”
Anonymous -
... for obvious reasons

4. Understanding is one
thing

5. Implications and Interactions
are quite another thing

6. Health Literacy
The ability to read, understand,
and utilize basic health-related
information
... like prescription bottle labels and
appointment slips

7. Learn or Die
Literate 18%
Illiterate
40%
25% of the 3500 people monitored had inadequate health literacy
The Illiterate group had a greater chance of dying over the next 6 years
http://www.hospitalimpact.org/index.php/scoop/2007/10/18/healthcare_complexity_the_elephant_in_th

8. Yes, Health Care is
extremely complicated

9. ... because the
patient is usually
excluded

10. Health 2.0 is participatory healthcare.
Enabled by information, software, and
community that we collect or create, we the
patients can be effective partners in our own
health care, and we the people can
participate in reshaping the health system
itself.
Dr. Ted Eytan
& the community

11. Health Care is important
to us all
“I Didn’t know I had so much
to say about it ...”
Geoff DiMasi
Principal P’unk Ave,
Health Consumer,
Parent

12. PAA
HI

13. ortability
...
P
?
rivacy
P

14. Privacy is a personal decision
HIpAA
and a personal trade-off

15. Privacy takes a back seat to
quality of life

16. It is my choice
... and I need knowledge
to take responsibility

17. We choose
what to believe
... and who
We share with

18. Don’t talk at me
Have a conversation with me

19. HIPAA
To stay relevant
health care must
embrace openness

20. To change health care we have to
put ourselves at the center

21. HealthCamp
is not just a conversation
HealthCamp is your call to action
Get involved in managing
your own health

22. healthca.mp
Go to http://healthca.mp
for more information Fri
Upcoming events: 6/1
9
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Mark Scrimshire
@ekivemark
#hcmd09 ekive.blogspot.com