We have a solution:
The Health Literacy Advisor is the nation's first interactive health literacy software tool
Most people would like to follow their health care instructions. That is if they could understand them.
Yet, more than 300 studies show health-related materials far exceed the reading ability of U.S. adults, especially those 73 million with low health literacy.
Without attention, low health literacy will continue to negatively impact consumer health, outcomes, and costs, with estimates as high as $236 billion annually to the health care industry.
One crucial solution is to improve the readability of health information. The Health Literacy Advisor is a revolutionary software tool to help communicators evaluate, standardize, and produce clear health information.
- Works directly with Microsoft Word documents
- Scores readability with nine different well-known readability indices
- Cleans documents before scoring to produce accurate readability results
- Offers search-and-replace plain language alternatives for hard-to-read terms
“WellPoint’s Plain Language program is all about bringing a science to the art of communicating simply.
It’s easy to think you’re being simple. Health Literacy Advisor is one of the tools helping to make sure we are.”
— Jamie Brocki, Staff Vice President of Marketing Communications at WellPoint, Inc.