OCTOBER IS HEALTH LITERACY MONTH: Smarter choices. Better health. Lower healthcare costs. Join the conversation now!
IT’S HEALTH LITERACY MONTH: Smarter choices. Better health. Lower healthcare costs. Join the conversation!
IT’S HEALTH LITERACY MONTH: Smarter choices. Better health. Lower healthcare costs. Join the conversation!
In the latest episode of The Health Literacy 2.0 Podcast, Seth Serxner is joined by Linda Macomber to explore how AI, digital health tools, and stronger health literacy can help people make better decisions and navigate healthcare with greater confidence.
Linda Macomber is a professor and health tech digital consultant who has worked at the intersection of healthcare and technology for more than 25 years. Her experience spans ICU nursing, health IT, academia, graduate education in health informatics, and consulting. She also created Renaissance.Health, a multimedia resource designed to help individuals, professionals, and healthcare organizations understand and use emerging digital health and AI tools.
Seth Serxner and Linda also discuss:
☑️ AI as a Health Partner: AI can translate test results into plain language, help people prepare questions, and support more informed conversations with healthcare professionals.
☑️ Start with Health Portals: Understanding how to access and connect personal health portals is a foundational step toward using digital health tools effectively.
☑️ Beyond ChatGPT: Claude, Perplexity, Open Evidence, Gemini, and other platforms may serve different purposes, with some offering stronger healthcare evidence and source links
☑️ Evidence Builds Trust: Perplexity’s reference links and the ability to compare multiple AI models can help people evaluate health information more carefully.
☑️ Personalize the Message: AI can translate health information into different languages and education levels, then turn it into an infographic, video, or podcast summary.
☑️ Move from Snapshots to a Health Journey: Self-monitoring tools can provide a more continuous view of health, while AI can help identify priorities across large amounts of data.
☑️ Keep Humans in the Decision Loop: AI may identify possibilities people or professionals have missed, but individuals and healthcare professionals remain responsible for making decisions.
☑️ Replace One-and-Done Searches with Conversations: Ongoing dialogue can help AI function more like a coach, with better questions, references, and insights developing over time.
☑️ Build AI Literacy Alongside Health Literacy: The opportunity lies in learning what people can do with AI, not simply cataloging what the technology can do.
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