HEALTH LITERACY CONSULTING

 

When dealing with patients / consumers, it is critical to think of the many different levels that exist in terms of understanding. What is basic information to one person may be extremely difficult to understand for someone else. This type of research identifies the information that is most important to patients to support their decision making.

Key Areas

Product Interaction

Website Usability Testing

Formative Human Factors Testing

Label & Instructions for Use Testing

Clinical Trials

Recruitment & Retention

Post-Trial Plain Language Patient Summaries

Patient Voice

Positioning & Messaging

Patient Messaging

Physician Messaging

Plain Language Content Creation

SOMMER SAYS

Health Literacy Highlights
Persuasion is Personal, and so are Life Jackets
Persuasion is Personal, and so are Life Jackets

Lessons Learned from the 2019 Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit Successful communication requires just as much listening as it does talking. When we listen, we learn that nine out of ten Medicaid patients rank values other than personal health as...

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Persuasion is Personal – Focus on the Garden
Persuasion is Personal – Focus on the Garden

Lessons Learned from the 2019 Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit   Last week professionals from diverse industries interested in improving health outcomes through better patient communication converged on Madison to attend the bi-annual...

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