National Partnerships and Northstar Business Development Specialist
Literacy Minnesota
As healthcare providers rely increasingly on telehealth, knowledge of basic digital skills are a requirement for equitable patient participation. Those without these skills are often from underserved groups. A social determinant of health, digital health literacy is a need to address if equity in health care is to be achieved. Northstar Digital Literacy can help close the equity gap in healthcare services though our free and low-cost assessments, instructor-led curricula, self-directed online practice lessons, and reports. Join us to find out how you and your organization can help close the digital literacy gap for the patients and learners you serve!
Objectives:
• Identify digital health skills necessary to developing patient equity.
• Find free digital literacy assessments to determine patient/learner readiness for online related health care features and information.
• Envision implementation of digital skills assessment and education with populations served