Innovations in Health Literacy: Workshop Summary
January 1, 2011 In January 2011, the National Academy of Sciences published a summary of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy workshop. The workshop was moderated by George Isham. It began with a presentation about the first annual Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (HARC), held in October 2009. Discussion focused on two of the recurring themes of the HARC meeting: the integration of research on health literacy and health disparities; and the role of information technology and health literacy research. For the workshop summarized in this report, a panel was convened to address each of the two themes . . .
